Assyrian war god

Usage examples of ashur.

Then, biting her lip, she tried to leap astride Ashur, but grating joints failed her.

It surprised her every time someone called Ashur a horse, and she pitied them for their blindness.

He stared toward Ashur and his embattled warriors with just a hint of fear.

Not one of his men had reacted strangely to Ashur during their journey.

She nudged Ashur onward and held up an arm to knock the first low branch from her face.

Frost pulled Ashur to a halt while there were still enough trees to hide them.

Frost went to Ashur, put an arm about his neck, and hugged him close without taking her eyes from the sea.

She recognized the familiar sound and whirled in time to see Ashur rear and stamp in warning.

From the corner of her eye she saw Telric racing toward her as Ashur paced an uncertain circle.

She reached out for Ashur once more, to touch the unicorn that was only a dream.

They in turn were vanquished by the followers of the great desert God, Ashur, who called themselves Assyrians and who made the city of Nineveh the center of a vast and terrible empire which conquered all of western Asia and Egypt and gathered taxes from countless subject races until the end of the seventh century before the birth of Christ when the Chaldeans, also a Semitic tribe, re-established Babylon and made that city the most important capital of that day.