solar chariot

American  

noun

1. (in ancient Egypt) a chariot placed in the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.

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Example Sentences

On one Scottish monument the circles represent wheels, and they probably indicate the solar chariot.

From Project Gutenberg

For there the sovereign good for ever reigns, Nor evil yet to come, nor present pains; No baleful birth of time its inmates fear, That comes, the burthen of the passing year; No solar chariot circles through the signs, And now too near, and now too distant, shines; To wretched man and earth's devoted soil Dispensing sad variety of toil.

From Project Gutenberg

At this contact—at the sight of those roseate, dimpled hands—he was electrified and in the headlong rush he pictured himself as Phaeton, careering behind the glancing tails of the steeds of the solar chariot.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes Phaethon, his rash, inexperienced son, would take the reins and drive the solar chariot too near the earth, causing the fruits to perish, and the grass to wither, and the wells to dry up.

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