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Fanny was to learn, later, that in Estes Park the male tourist was likely to be puny, pallid, and unattractive when compared to the tall, slim, straight, khaki-clad youth, browned by the sun, and the wind, and the dust, who drives his steamer up and down the perilous mountain roads with more dexterity than the charioteering gods ever displayed on Olympus.
'Procerity, to use Dr. Johnson's stately word in speaking of the stately Prussian regiment, was underrated in Greece; perhaps for this reason, that in some principal gymnastic contests, running, leaping, horsemanship, and charioteering, it really was a disadvantage.
As she moved off, Lawrence from his open door called out: "Bon voyage" and in a full, clear voice she thanked him, but did not dare to look around, so intent was she upon her charioteering. Slowly turning the horse toward the yard gate, which Plez stood holding open, her whole soul was absorbed in the act of guiding the equipage through the gateway.
Then the king called to his son Cowshra Mead Macha and bade him take Læg, and harness to the war-chariot, of which he had the care, the wondrous gray steed, and that one which had been given him by Kelkar, the son of Uther, and to give Læg a charioteering equipment, to be charioteers of Cuculain.
But I added: "What is the world coming to when the Prince of the Republic prizes his privileges so little that he neglects state business for horse-jockeying, when he is so crazy over charioteering that he lets another man wear his robes and occupy his throne? It is a mad world." Next morning we were early on Orontides' ship and once more Agathemer charmed a crew with his flageolet.
"They have not been seen in Erin for three hundred years, not since Macha dwelt visibly in Emain as the bride of Kimbaoth, son of Fiontann. In this chariot she went forth to war, charioteering her warlike groom. He is to wait, and watch, and stand prepared under gesa most terrible." "Maybe Kimbaoth will return to us again," said the boy. "Nay, it hath not been so prophesied," answered the King.
This immediate prospect of a return to serenity after his recent charioteering, had set him thinking of himself and his days to come, which hung before him in a golden haze that was tranquillizing. He had a name, he had a station: he wanted power and he saw it approaching. He wanted a wife too. Colonel von Tresten took coffee with him previous to the start with Dr.
LIV. He also zealously applied himself to the practice of several other arts of different kinds, such as fencing, charioteering, singing, and dancing. In the first of these, he practised with the weapons used in war; and drove the chariot in circuses built in several places.
"At least," Brinnaria breathed, "we have not lost track of him this time." "We have not," Vocco answered, "and I'll wager we shall not." "Is it prize-fighting again?" Brinnaria queried, "or is it really charioteering this time?" "Neither," said Vocco. "I must say it sounds like lunacy. But all Almo's words and all the small details of his behavior show no signs of derangement.
There is, in fact, at this time simply no end to the mythological and allegorical charioteering, and the most important work of art of Borso's time the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia shows us a whole frieze filled with these motives. Raphael, when he had to paint the Camera della Segnatura, found this mode of artistic thought completely vulgarized and worn out.
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