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... was back in the centre of the ring. He announced that Polly's injuries were slight, called the attention of the audience to the wonderful concert to take place, and bade them make ready for the thrilling chariot race which would ...

— Polly of the Circus • Margaret Mayo

... determines, in the not contemptible language of that single-speech poetess, Maria del Occidente, to "descend and sip a lower draught." He is happy after a fashion with her for two whole months: but at the end of that time he is beaten in a chariot race, and, going to Erigone for consolation, finds the winner's vehicle at her door. Socrates, on being consulted, recommends Glicerie as, after all, the best of them, in a rather sensible discourse. But the concluding words of the sage and the story are, as indeed might be expected from Xanthippe's ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... driving in a chariot race. You'll kill Mr. Harriman's poor old nag. Drive slower, Gummy. She won't ...

— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long

... visitors at the fort and watched the Light Battery drill with wonder and surprise. The horses flying across the prairie like an Egyptian chariot race, the sudden changes of front and position, and the rapid firing, awed the savage. In the spring of 1861, all this was changed. The artillery were ordered south. One and sometimes two companies of volunteers were stationed for a short time, and others succeeded them. The Indians ...

— Old Rail Fence Corners - The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History • Various

Words linked to "Chariot race" : race