All 18 Uses of
centaur
in
The Silver Chair
- Fauns, satyrs, centaurs: Jill could give a name to these, for she had seen pictures of them.†
Chpt 3
- But more than thirty champions (knights, centaurs, good giants, and all sorts) have at one time or another set out to look for the lost Prince, and none of them have ever come back.†
Chpt 4
- two centaurs have very kindly offered to let you ride on their backs
Chpt 16 *centaurs = creatures that are half man, half horse
- Of course, you realize it is a most special and unheard-of honour to be allowed to ride a Centaur.†
Chpt 16
- A Centaur called Cloudbirth, a famous healer, or (as Orruns called it) a 'leech', was coming to see to his burnt foot.†
Chpt 16
- I don't think the Centaurs have quite finished their breakfasts yet.†
Chpt 16
- A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach.†
Chpt 16
- That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the week-end.†
Chpt 16
- The two Centaurs, one with a black and one with a golden beard flowing over their magnificent bare chests, stood waiting for them, bending their heads a little so as to look into the cave.†
Chpt 16
- No one thinks a Centaur funny when he sees it.†
Chpt 16
- "Now, speaking of funerals," began Puddleglum, but Jill, who heard the Centaurs tapping with their hoofs behind her, surprised him very much by flinging her arms round his thin neck and kissing his muddy-looking face, while Eustace wrung his hand.†
Chpt 16
- Then they both rushed away to the Centaurs, and the Marsh-wiggle, sinking back on his bed, remarked to himself, "Well, I wouldn't have dreamt of her doing that.†
Chpt 16
- To ride on a Centaur is, no doubt, a great honour (and except Jill and Eustace there is probably no one alive in the world today who has had it) but it is very uncomfortable.†
Chpt 16
- For no one who valued his life would suggest putting a saddle on a Centaur, and riding bare-back is no fun; especially if, like Eustace, you have never learned to ride at all.†
Chpt 16
- The Centaurs were very polite in a grave, gracious, grown-up kind of way, and as they cantered through the Narnian woods they spoke, without turning their heads, telling the children about the properties of herbs and roots, the influences of the planets, the nine names of Aslan with their meanings, and things of that sort.†
Chpt 16
- So they asked the Centaurs if they might go on sitting on their backs a little longer and thus see everything over the heads of the courtiers.†
Chpt 16
- And the Centaurs said they might.†
Chpt 16
- They both slipped off their Centaurs (who took no notice of them).†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(centaur) a mythical being that is half man and half horse