Sentence examples for chariot at from inspiring English sources

Euripides puts her on a golden chariot at the end and his audiences would have understood her as a goddess.

Mel is pulled over by a centurion for driving his chariot at great speed, and accused of having a blood-alcohol level exceeding that mandated by Tiberius.

Also not to be forgotten are Lady Gaga's egg chariot at the Grammy Awards, Christina Aguilera's botched rendition of the national anthem at this year's Super Bowl, and Prince William and Kate Middleton's nuptials in Westminster Abbey.

It is that in New Zealand Wilkinson has the chance to confirm the belief of many – and it is body of opinion not exclusive to men who like to wear moth-gnawed Barbour coats and sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" at Twickenham – that his career has become a unique example of commitment to the sporting nation.

Four years ago a British producer, Anthony Geffen, announced what sounded like an enormously ambitious and one-of-a-kind project: He said he would use the breakthroughs in computer and digital technology to recreate the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt and China, bringing viewers the experience of walking through the Parthenon or riding a chariot at the Roman Circus.

Kelly, the activities coordinator for Acacia Lodge – a 60-bed residential home in New Moston, Manchester – reports seeing a mute female resident with advanced Alzheimer's sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at top volume with all the words in one of the first Camerata sessions.

In 416 Alcibiades restored his reputation by entering seven chariots at Olympia and taking first, second, and fourth places.

"Greek and Roman Mosaics," by the Italian historians Umberto Pappalardo and Rosaria Ciardiello, surveys 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-oldpebblens, second-century scenes ofloorsiots at Pompeii and sixth-century biblical tableaus for basilica domes.

Even if that was an exaggeration on Caesar's part, it certainly suggests that, throughout Britain, there must have been literally tens of thousands of chariots at any one time, and probably hundreds of thousands in aggregate over the latter half of the Iron Age - around 300BC to roughly 50AD.

The attraction consisted of harnessed human fleas racing chariots at the rate of an inch every few seconds, pulling a garden roller, riding a tricycle and "fencing fleas" scrabbling at pins stuck in pieces of cork in a semblance of a sword fight.

The most exciting part of the chariot race, at least for the spectators, was the turns at the ends of the hippodrome.