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charet

n. (alternative spelling of charret English)

Usage examples of "charet".

By that same way the direfull dames doe driueTheir mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood,And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue:Which passing through, on euery side them stoodThe trembling ghosts with sad amazed mood,Chattring their yron teeth, and staring wideWith stonie eyes.

Hippolytus a iolly huntsman was,That wont in charet chace the foming Bore.

Who all in rage his Sea-god syre besought,Some cursed vengeance on his sonne to cast:From surging gulf two monsters straight were brought,With dread whereof his chasing steedes aghast,Both charet swift and huntsman ouercast.

The waues come rolling, and the billowes roreOutragiously, as they enraged were,Or wrathfull Neptune did them driue beforeHis whirling charet, for exceeding feare:For not one puffe of wind there did appeare,That all the three thereat woxe much afrayd,Vnweeting, what such horrour straunge did reare.

Soone as she vp out of her deadly fitArose, she bad her charet to be brought,And all her sisters, that with her did sit,Bad eke attonce their charets to be sought.

A teme of Dolphins raunged in aray,Drew the smooth charet of sad Cymoent.

Soone as they bene arriu'd vpon the brimOf the Rich strond, their charets they forlore,And let their temed fishes softly swimAlong the margent of the fomy shore,Least they their finnes should bruze, and surbate soreTheir tender feet vpon the stony ground:And comming to the place, where all in goreAnd cruddy bloud enwallowed they foundThe lucklesse Marinell, lying in deadly swound.

Tho vp him taking in their tender hands,They easily vnto her charet beare:Her teme at her commaundement quiet stands,Whiles they the corse into her wagon reare,And strow with flowres the lamentable beare:Then all the rest into their coches clim,And through the brackish waues their passage sheare.

Her vp betwixt his rugged hands he reard,And with his frory lips full softly kist,Whiles the cold ysickles from his rough beard,Dropped adowne vpon her yuorie brest:Yet he himselfe so busily addrest,That her out of astonishment he wrought,And out of that same fishers filthy nestRemouing her, into his charet brought,And there with many gentle termes her faire besought.

Both for those two, and for his owne deare sonne,The sonne of Climene he did repent,Who bold to guide the charet of the Sunne,Himselfe in thousand peeces fondly rent,And all the world with flashing fier brent.

Like as the mother of the Gods, they say,In her great iron charet wonts to ride,When to Ioues pallace she doth take her way.

As when two sunnes appeare in the azure skye,Mounted in Phoebus charet fierie bright,Both darting forth faire beames to each mans eye,And both adorn'd with lampes of flaming light,All that behold so strange prodigious sight,Not knowing natures worke, nor what to weene,Are rapt with wonder, and with rare affright.

But the bold child that perill well espying,If he too rashly to his charet drew,Gaue way vnto his horses speedie flying,And their resistlesse rigour did eschew.

My father says that there was an inquisitor named Clement Charet in the sixteenth century, who burned witches in the south of France, but that he can't have been an ancestor of ours because he was a Dominican monk and wouldn't have been able to get married.

She said she got the impression that Miss Charet was going in that direction.