centaur

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Other portraits feature a loser’s face on a shirtless firefighter sitting near a blaze, and another member’s image atop a centaur.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Air pollution is also unlikely for another reason; the centaur head has been indoors in Copenhagen since before the modern industrialization began in the 18th century.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Grover, it turns out, is a satyr, charged with protecting Percy; Mr. Brunner is really a centaur named Chiron.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2023

A centaur was standing over him, not Ronan or Bane; this one looked younger; he had white-blond hair and a palomino body.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling