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  • So many white-horsed chariots, and such concourses of dark slaves from every land in the long African crescent of the midland sea, from the pillars of Hercules to ferocious Carthage and beyond to the confines of Egypt and Phoenicia!

    The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays Frederick Peterson 1918

  • These stood out against a background of laurels and holly, and above these again rose the gables of the inn and its signpost -- a white-horsed George slaying the dragon -- against copper beeches under the sky.

    In the Days of the Comet 1906

  • Deb was very kind, very polite, very plausible with her excuses; but to Menzies 'with those people and their white-horsed carriage she would not go.

    Sisters Ada Cambridge 1885

  • In this conflict, so far as this earth is concerned, the great controversy between Christ and Satan closes in the triumph of Him who rides forth on a white horse at the head of the white-horsed armies of heaven.

    Modern Spiritualism Uriah Smith 1867

  • Like the white-horsed twins of lake Regillus, like Phoebe, the queen of skyey plain and earthly forest, every boy and girl, every man and woman, that lives at all, has to divide many a year between

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

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