The word 'chariot' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an ancient vehicle, or when referring to a situation where someone or something has been dramatically or quickly transported somewhere. Example sentence: The knight rode off in his chariot, gleaming in the afternoon sun.
A wooden chariot manned by a terracotta charioteer and pulled by four terracotta horses brings up the rear.
Kadesh is sometimes said to have been the largest chariot battle ever fought, with thousands of chariots on both sides.
Fred Niblo's silent version is spiffing entertainment without a thought in its head; William Wyler's remake is just a pious slog up to the admittedly exciting chariot race (which Wyler did not shoot anyway).
Their biggest impact has been on the courts, where disruptive behaviour and unusual arguments result in long delays as judges attempt to sort through what one called "a hotch-potch of irrelevancies".One member of the Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International argued that her car was not subject to motor-vehicle laws because it was "an ecclesiastical pursuit chariot".
THROUGHOUT history new technologies have revolutionised warfare, sometimes abruptly, sometimes only gradually: think of the chariot, gunpowder, aircraft, radar and nuclear fission.
The latest addition to the exhibit is a wooden chariot, probably used by King Tut in battle or for hunting.
To their parents, Mr Heston is an American icon, somehow embodying the heroism of his roles of yesteryear: Ben Hur in his Roman chariot; Moses bearing aloft God's ten commandments; El Cid defying the Moorish hordes.
But when they listen, they hear one of America most inspiring voices, awakening all the atavistic longing, felt even by the young, for a simpler, better nation:Here I am still in the chariot.
Locals recall a farmer in the field briefly exposing a mosaic of a chariot and two horses some 40 years ago, but it has yet to reappear.
The campaign was spearheaded by Mr Advani, who led a ram rath yatra, or chariot procession, halfway across India to rally support for the temple.
How were we to know that the inescapable destiny of heroes is defeat?" The narrator of Elon Salmon's novel is Philo Jerusalem, son of the vigorous Gideon, a founder of the Jewish state who "rides the warlike chariot of Israel's destiny", striving for excellence in all things, but dies in obscurity, laid low by petty politics.
