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  • noun Alternative form of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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  • noun (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse

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Examples

  • He ' d like to make a film about Ingram, the Irish-born producer-director whose " Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse " made Rudolph Valentino a star.

    Hero of the Silent Screen David Mermelstein 2010

  • Guess I'd better saddle up and ride off with the Four Horsemen.

    Dragoncon Schedule Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Guess I'd better saddle up and ride off with the Four Horsemen.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Then I booked them into the American Dream at ten thousand a week, wrote a check as proprietor of the American Dream, handed the check to myself as manager of the Four Horsemen, then resigned as a network flunky, leaving them with a $10,000 bag and me with 20% of the hottest group since the Beatles.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Then I booked them into the American Dream at ten thousand a week, wrote a check as proprietor of the American Dream, handed the check to myself as manager of the Four Horsemen, then resigned as a network flunky, leaving them with a $10,000 bag and me with 20% of the hottest group since the Beatles.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • When I'm agreeing with a Toronto Star editorial on a defence matter, it's a sure sign you're about to hear the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen anytime now.

    More money is better, but... 2008

  • I can hear the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen as I type this.

    CTV spinning the Afghan news/President Karzai responds to "Top Guns" 2008

  • Together again, we Four Horsemen could shake up the planet.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • I'm going down and there is only one certain way to stop it: play The Four Horsemen.

    Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

  • I'm going down and there is only one certain way to stop it: play The Four Horsemen.

    Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

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