Sentences with phrase «as ancient horses»

Not exact matches

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

Ride an 1880s «iron horse» through an ancient redwood forest and witness skirmishes as the steam train ascends Bear Mountain.

These include the ancient pigs Desmathyus and Prosthenops, the horned artiodactyl Prosynthetoceras, an ancient elephant - like animal known as a gomphothere, and perhaps the ancient horse Merychippus.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

At Al Shaqab in Doha, Qatar, science is bringing a new life to the ancient bloodlines of Arabian horses — the breed that carried historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and George Washington.

As she pondered the nature of this little horse, Louise suddenly remembered seeing, on the walls of the ancient palace in Persepolis, relief carvings of a horse that looked very much like the one she had just found.

This is something that was only detectable in the horse in comparison to the ancient genomes, as Przewalski's horses were found to show a proportion of deleterious mutations similar to domesticated horses.

The team discovered that the combination of mammals found together in the Altai and Sayan mountains of western Mongolia and southern Russia — such as horses, reindeer, saiga antelopes and wolverines — is similar to the ancient glacial communities.

A specimen of the ancient horse Eurohippus messelensis has been discovered in Germany that preserves a fetus as well as parts of the uterus and associated tissues.

The mitochondrial genome sequences of the two ancient horses clustered within the extensive diversity present in modern horses, as previously reported (9, 12, 25).

To place the horse evolutionary history in a chronological context, we estimated the divergence time between the ancestors of the ancient horse population and ancestors of the modern horse populations, as well as the divergence time between the ancestors of Przewalski's horses and domesticated horses.

Oats was one of the first cereals to be cultivated although the ancient Romans and Greeks saw oats as a kind of weed appropriate only for barbarians and horses.

After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.

As a boy in ancient Macedon, he tamed the horse Bucephalus.

«In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay smooth and rectilinear as the stones of ancient ruins and the water from their muzzles dripped and rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.

As far back as 600 B.C., Orbasis of ancient Lydia documented that riding horses was more than just a form of transportation and noted the value that it had on those with handicapAs far back as 600 B.C., Orbasis of ancient Lydia documented that riding horses was more than just a form of transportation and noted the value that it had on those with handicapas 600 B.C., Orbasis of ancient Lydia documented that riding horses was more than just a form of transportation and noted the value that it had on those with handicaps.

Specifically, the ancient horse bridle and saddle are especially beneficial, as they enable you to spawn your horse at your exact location.

A world as large as this one will naturally comes with methods of travel and given the time period in which this game is set, travelling across the ancient Egypt lands will be provided by your trusty horse and / or camel.

Alluding to ancient Greek and Roman bas - reliefs as well as the classical motif of a rider on horseback, Ray's subject is far from monumental: a young girl in riding clothes atop a horse whose body, head, and tail have all been cropped from the frame.

Marini cited ancient Etruscans as one key inspiration for his rearing horse and rider.

[64] Just as cars had replaced the horse, so modernist design should reject the old styles and structures inherited from Ancient Greece or from the Middle Ages.

This winter, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, a ground - breaking exhibition that explores the Greeks» fascination with an animal that served as a symbol of wealth, power, and status in ways that are recognizable and familiar even today.