Chariot

The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot".

A quadriga is a chariot drawn by four horses.

Make me a conqueror of all nations; let the famous chariot carry me all the way from the sun to Thebes in triumph: I will consider myself human even when I am hailed everywhere as a god.

The ancient Greeks believed that the Sun rode across the sky in a chariot drawn by four white horses driven by the god Heleius.

Perseus saw his children, one after the other, dragged behind the victor's chariot.

This was particularly true of chariot racing.

The fairy started off at once, and arrived, about an hour later, in a fiery chariot drawn by dragons.

The King handed her out of the chariot, and she approved everything he had done; but as she had very great foresight, she thought that when the Princess should awake she might not know what to do with herself, if she was all alone in this old palace.

Here were her arms and her chariot; the goddess, even then, strove and nurtured this place to be a kingdom for the nations, if only the fates allowed.

Here were shown / her arms, and here her chariot; evermore / e'en then this land she cherished as her own, / and here, should Fate permit, had planned a world-wide throne.