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  • He asked for water, and she brought him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice,Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Judges 5:25^8.

  • Behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of 92 fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Kings 2:11^12.

  • He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 46:9^10.

  • Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me myarrows of desire! Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire!

    -William Blake
      Milton, preface. Stanza 3.

  • Don't let us be familiar or fond, nor kiss before folks, like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis: nor go to Hyde-Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers, and then never be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after† Let usbe verystrangeandwell-bred: Let usbe asstrangeasif wehad beenmarried a great while, and aswell-bred as if we were not married at all.

    -William Congreve
      Millamant to Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.5.

  • A slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^5  The scout's description of Bella. Our Mutual Friend, bk.2, ch.8.

  • I dislike burdens†and at my back I often hearTime's winged chariot changing gear. See Marvell 556:62.

    - Eric Robert Linklater
       Juan.  Juan in China,'End-Piece'.

  • My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow, An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. Two hundred to adore each breast: But thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For Lady you deserve this state; Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near: And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

    - Andrew Marvell
    c.1650^1652  'To His Coy Mistress' (published1681).

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