Word: charioteers
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...Testament the whole air is full of immortality, although the Sadducees and agnostics pretended not to believe in it. All this change and much more was brought about during those four lost centuries. Alexander the Great overthrew the vast Persian Empire and, as a great poet has said, "his chariot wheels smoothed the way for the gospel of Christ." Then the Roman Empire began to spread and extend its influence over all the civilized world. When Augustus defeated Antony the unification of Europe, Asia, and Africa was completed and the reigning of universal peace began. He must be blind...
...content, and abdicates. With his wife, four brothers, and a black dog, who is justice in disguise, he goes towards a sacred mountain for meditation. On the road all his companions except the dog drop dead, and these-two-soon reached the summit. A golden chariot arrives to take Undostheera to Heaven; he, however, steadfastly refuses to go without the dog. Justice leaves his disguise and Undostheera ascends to Heaven. Here he is greatly disappointed at not finding the souls of his relatives, and soon leaves Heaven by the Sinner's Grove in search of his kin. He succeeds...
...students of Amherst will shortly have the "Chariot Race" from Ben Hur read to them by its author, Gen. Lew. Wallace...
...brocade and blue velvet, ride by under a canopy, escorted by the noble ladies and gentlemen of the court, among whom the court fool, mounted on a frisky ass, plunges recklessly about. A group of students and professors are followed by a huge car, a sort of exalted chariot, on which sit five beautiful young girls, representing Ruperto Carola, Piety, Wisdom, Justice, Truth. This ends the first division of the procession. The next epoch begins with the triumphal entry of Frederick I, named the Victorious, after the battle of Seckenheim, 1462. The war-scarred veterans, with torn ensigns and shattered...
...even 1809, still use the good old name of baggatiway in speaking of the national game of the Indians a game that was played among the Choctaws of the South, as well as by the Sacs and Chippewas of the North. Baggatiway was to Indians what chariot racing and the throwing of the discus were to the Greeks; what cricket is to the English; what base-ball is to Americans; a game that attracted the attention and tried the skill of the bravest warriors, of the most agile athletes. Kings and queens and royal chieftains were wont, even centuries...