Fondare 74 Risultati per: Horse
What saw they? A horse, royally caparisoned, that charged upon Heliodorus and struck him down with its fore-feet; terrible of aspect its rider was, and his armour seemed all of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 25)
and when they charged the enemy, they were very lions for valour. At their onslaught, fell eleven thousand of the foot, fell a thousand and six hundred of the horse; (2 Maccabees 11, 11)
Nine furlongs they had marched, on their way to meet Timotheus, when an Arab force engaged them, of five thousand foot and five hundred horse.✻ (2 Maccabees 12, 10)
Machabaeus himself, with six thousand men at his heels, divided into companies, pressed on against Timotheus, that had a hundred and twenty thousand foot, and two thousand five hundred horse, under his command. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)
it was but a muster of three thousand foot and four hundred horse.✻ (2 Maccabees 12, 33)
As for Gorgias, one Dositheus, a great warrior that was in Bacenor’s company of horse, kept close on his heels and would have taken him alive; but one of the Thracian horsemen fell upon him and cut off his arm at the shoulder, so Gorgias escaped safe to Maresa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
Lysias was at his side, that was lord protector and managed the affairs of the realm, and with him were a hundred and ten thousand foot, five thousand horse, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred scythed chariots. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)
well armed thy horse may be on the eve of battle, but the Lord sends victory. (Proverbs 21, 31)
Whip for horse, bridle for ass, and never a rod for the fool’s back? (Proverbs 26, 3)
lighthearted as horse at pasture or frisking lamb, they chanted praises to thee, Lord, their rescuer. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 9)
In full view of the open street the adulterer shall pay the penalty; loud, as for a runaway horse, the hue and cry; where he thought to escape, justice outruns him. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 30)
and he shall find spoilt son headstrong and stubborn as a horse unbroken. (Ecclesiasticus 30, 8)
