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[2] The eight-horse chariot of Abradatas was a marvel of beauty and richness; and just as he was about to put on the linen corslet of his native land, Pantheia came, bringing him a golden breastplate and a helmet of gold, and armlets and broad bracelets for his wrists, and a full flowing purple tunic, and a hyacinth-coloured helmet-plume.

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"It's not a two-horse race, it's a five, six, seven or even eight-horse race"

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I would have stopped an eight-horse coach, with four carabined out-riders, for such a booty as that.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

The Yankee gun, its eight-horse team, men who stood now with their hands high, horses for riders who were no longer to need them.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

For this purpose the boiler of the eight-horse portable engine, which gained the first prize at the Cardiff show of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1872, will serve very well, because the trials, all the details of which are set forth very fully in vol.ix. of the _Journal_ of the

Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various

On Sunday, the 23rd of July, her body was carried in an eight-horse coach to Saint-Denis.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Who knows but the "clamorous smack" wherewith the Jehu of an eight-horse wagon salutes the lips of his rosy inamorata, (scarcely less audible than the crack of his heavy thong on Smiler's dull sides,) may have been perfectly consistent with the acmé of politesse some centuries bygone.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Various

Our guns rumbled forward with their eight-horse teams across the plain, while our cavalry, stretched out in open order at fifty yards apart, traversed the country in long strings that might have been seen and admired by the enemy at a distance, I daresay, of twenty miles.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

An eight-horse team could with difficulty pull a gun and its limber over fairly level ground; frequently twelve horses were required and sometimes as many as sixteen!

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

Dona Mariana led us into the engenho, where we had seats placed near the rollers, which are worked by an eight-horse power steam-engine, one of the first, if not the very first, erected in Brazil.

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham