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n. (context idiomatic English) another name for "Famine", one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Wikipedia
Black Rider may refer to:
- The Third Horseman of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Black Rider (comics), a Marvel Comics Western character
- Black Rider Holdings, an Austin, TX Based company
- The Black Rider, a 1990 stage musical by Tom Waits, Robert Wilson and William S. Burroughs
- The Black Rider (album), a 1993 album by Tom Waits
- The Black Riders and Other Lines, an 1895 book of poetry by Stephen Crane
- Schwarzfahrer, a short film directed by Pepe Danquart, which won an Academy Award in 1993
- Nazgûl, Sauron's chief servants in the fantasy book The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Black Riders, or Schwarze Reiter – German cavalry armed with pistols
The Black Rider is a fictional Western character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in All-Western Winners #2 (Winter 1948), from the company's 1940s forerunner, Timely Comics.
Usage examples of "black rider".
These riders did not bring with them the miasma of evil which had hung above the other creatures and the black rider.
Like a Black Rider it sounded-but one up in the air, if they can fly.
The black rider was thrown to one side, and left open to Huma's thrust.
In the sudden lull, a man in old and shiny black Rider armor pushed past Shar and strode into the Zhent ranks, a shimmering arrowhead of force preceding him, cleaving men who stood in his way.
She leaped out on shore, turned to look, saw the black rider still distant.
And in sudden new terror Will saw what he sought, the peak of Dark power that would never flee: the two huge figures, indestructible now in their full power, of the Black Rider and the White Rider of the Dark, curving out of the sky on a long rushing lunge down to the grassy Chiltern hill and the enchanted tree.