chariot-race

Reuters Actors and horses perform the chariot-race scene from 'Ben Hur Live' for the cameras during a preview from the show at the O2 arena, in east London this past September.

Mr. Abraham, Your Chariot Awaits Javier Espinoza 2010

Reuters Actors and horses perform the chariot-race scene from 'Ben Hur Live' for the cameras during a preview from the show at the O2 arena, in east London this past September.

Mr. Abraham, Your Chariot Awaits Javier Espinoza 2010

Reuters Actors and horses perform the chariot-race scene from 'Ben Hur Live' for the cameras during a preview from the show at the O2 arena, in east London this past September.

Mr. Abraham, Your Chariot Awaits Javier Espinoza 2010

Ah! Pelops, easy victor long ago o'er thy rival Oenomaus in the chariot-race on Pisa's plain, would thou hadst ended thy career amongst the gods that day thou wert beguiled into making a banquet for them, or ever thou hadst begotten my father Atreus, to whom were born by

Helen 2008

Ah! Pelops, easy victor long ago o'er thy rival Oenomaus in the chariot-race on Pisa's plain, would thou hadst ended thy career amongst the gods that day thou wert beguiled into making a banquet for them, or ever thou hadst begotten my father Atreus, to whom were born by

Helen 2008

We must go forth against a people to whom the strife of combat is as the breath of their nostrils; who, rather than not be engaged in war, will do battle with their nearest neighbours, and challenge each other to mortal fight, as much in sport as we would defy a comrade to a chariot-race.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

They had already completed the chariot-race, and the foot-race of the pentathlon. 733 The competitors entitled to enter for the wrestling match had left the racecourse, and were getting through their bouts in the space between the racecourse and the great altar.

Hellenica 2007

Achilles institutes the funeral games: the chariot-race, the fight of the caestus, the wrestling, the foot-race, the single combat, the discus, the shooting with arrows, the darting the javelin: the various descriptions of which, and the various success of the several antagonists, make the greatest part of the book.

The Iliad of Homer 2003

The room was large enough that he could have laid out a half-length chariot-race course down its length, had there not been shops, ornamental fountains and ponds, decorative seats, and odd pillars with glowing spheres at the top scattered throughout its length, along with a riot of colorful Saturnalia and other, unfathomable, decorations from floor to ceiling.

Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

You could say of the chariot-race that it is a rich man's toy, a contest whose prize goes to one who did nothing but spend his gold.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978