Chariots
[tʃæri:əts]
Examples
- May the wheels of their chariots be taken off, said the Jew, like those of the host of Pharaoh, that they may drive heavily! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I, too, have heard of his gallant feats of prowess in chariots and _vis-à-vis! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That individual proceeded,-- We're eleven strong men, and there's both horses and chariots amang us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I sought out Dejah Thoris in the throng of departing chariots, but she turned her shoulder to me, and I could see the red blood mount to her cheek. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The chariots drove full tilt at the infantry mass and tried to break it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a time, therefore, the old families and country gentility sent their servants and their luggage by train, but themselves jogged along the old post-roads in the family chariots. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You saw demure chariots at her door, out of which stepped very great people. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The chariots themselves were large, commodious, and gorgeously decorated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Edited by Glenn