What is "litters"

Usage examples of "litters".

Willow-Spring Palace began to notice with curiosity how numerous litters and carriages arrived at the long-neglected Palace.

News of his approaching end reached the capital that same afternoon, and a vast flurry ensued as litters and carriages jostled one another in their haste to reach the hamlet of Takeda, on whose outskirts the temple stood.

Mounted warriors, litters, carriages, and common folk on foot streamed back toward the capital.

Gods and many other Gods and heroes riding on open litters of gold and purple, realistically painted, clad in exquisite clothes.

Their litters are a nuisance, so Licinia tells me, but she is very firm, even with the children when they plead.

Though I must protest strongly against lions, litters, mistresses and mummers.

Tyrian purple litters studded with ocean pearls had better count their days, because there was one tax he intended to bring in!

None of us was privileged to see her own private triumphal parade as she came up the Via Ostiensis, but gossip says it was awash in gold, from the litters to the costumes.

And from there it would be on to the Campus Martius, where the body would be burned, several hundred litters of aromatics bought at state expense to fuel the pyre.

One hundred of the many hundreds of litters piled with frankincense, myrrh, nard and other costly, burnable aromatics were stacked as a fence between the back row of chariots and the crowd, with shoulder-to-shoulder soldiers as an additional barrier.

Interspersed with the chariots and litters as the procession came down from the Velia were black-robed professional mourners beating their breasts, tearing their hair, emitting eldritch wails and keening dirges.

The soldiers standing with their backs pressed against the fence of litters started to look at each other uneasily, feeling the litters begin to wobble and creak as the crowd behind them pushed inexorably.

Those in the forefront of the crush laid hands upon the hundred litters of aromatics as the chariot horses began to plunge and rear, the actors to scramble for their lives.

So he made me a speech about all the battles that have been won by generals in litters, which is nonsense.