All 20 Uses of
centaur
in
Here, There be Dragons by Owen
- Useless as a buck centaur in a dairy, that one.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- , more than a few animals (including several badgers, wolverines, and at least one creature Jack identified as a Tasmanian devil), and the core of their force, a herd of centaurs.†
Chpt 5.17
- The captain of the Green Dragon was a centaur whom Nemo greeted as Charys.†
Chpt 5.17
- The centaur indicated the motion of the sun across the sky, moving westward, and the council saw what Charys had surmised.†
Chpt 5.18
- Charys and the centaurs had one mandate: to flank the rest, and make sure that none of their enemies were trying to outflank them.†
Chpt 5.18
- As they'd feared, the goblins had attempted a flanking action, only to be forced back into line with the others by the centaurs.†
Chpt 5.18
- The goblin archers' aim was deadly, but the centaurs shrugged off the arrows as if they were wasps.†
Chpt 5.18
- The other archers and pikemen gleaned from the mythbeasts and animals, led by Jack, came in behind the centaurs, and in moments the goblins were in full retreat.†
Chpt 5.18
- As unlikely as it seemed, the centaur was right.†
Chpt 5.18
- With a cheer, the elves drew their swords and pressed ahead—then, suddenly, Eledir gave the command to stop, and the dwarves and centaurs also wheeled about.†
Chpt 5.18
- Charys, leading the centaurs, took over the front lines.†
Chpt 5.20
- Jack was running down the hill past the retreating centaurs with the second grenade as Nemo lit the first device and threw it directly at the Winter King.†
Chpt 5.20
- What remained of the elves, dwarves, animals, and mythbeasts had come together in a hollow just opposite the beach, where they were ringed in by Charys and the centaurs, who stood as the last line of defense.†
Chpt 5.20
- The elves, dwarves, and centaurs formed a blockade around the Dragonships and their injured comrades and kept the Wendigo in a thick cluster with a flurry of arrows.†
Chpt 6.21
- The Wendigo, the worst and most fearsome of the enemy force, had been cornered against the base of the western bluff by Charys and his centaurs—and thus had an unobstructed view of the fate of the Winter King.†
Chpt 6.22
- They turned from the centaurs, howling, teeth gnashing, and began to flee in the only direction available to them.†
Chpt 6.22
- Aside from continuing to care for those affected by the Shadow-Born, the effort of which was being guided by Charys and the centaurs, preparing the ships for departure from Terminus was the last item on the allies' agenda.†
Chpt 6.22
- The centaur was tending to the pallid forms of those who had fallen to the Shadow-Born, including Falladay Finn.†
Chpt 6.22
- The centaurs had long been valued for their knowledge of medicine and the healing arts, but what had been done to his friends and comrades was beyond his ken.†
Chpt 6.22
- As Jack worked with Charys and the centaurs on the restorations, John pulled Bert aside to talk.†
Chpt 6.23
Definition:
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(centaur) a mythical being that is half man and half horse