centaur
Example Sentences
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No one can convince her otherwise, and she decides to win her spouse back with an enchanted robe that the dying centaur Nessus told her was a love charm.
He went to the centaurs—there is a herd on the island of Antiok who pass the secret of the potion from son to daughter to son.
From Literature
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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.
For their investigations, the research team was allowed to take five small samples from the back of the centaur head.
From Science Daily
In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.
From New York Times
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