Her team of horses pull her chariot across the sky and are named in the Odyssey as Firebright and Daybright.

Her distinctive colours of blue with buff stripes were carried by horses such as Special Cargo, the winner of the 1984 Whitbread Gold Cup, and Devon Loch, which spectacularly halted just short of the winning post at the 1956 Grand National and whose jockey Dick Francis later had a successful career as the writer of racing-themed detective stories.

Her estate was estimated to be worth £ 70 million, including paintings, Fabergé eggs, jewellery, and horses.

Her father, after chasing the couple for a long time and realizing he could not catch up to them, killed his horses and then drowned himself in a nearby river, which took his name.

Her " horses " tend to cry tears of longing and regret.

Her " horses " tend to speak as if they have a gag in their mouth.

Her " horses " tend to get in a fetal position or birthing position and cry tears of pain.

Her " horses " cry tears of bitter sadness.

Her " horses " cry tears of anger.

Her pets include champion show Chow Chow dogs, French Bulldogs, Himalayan cats, and Friesian horses, including her dark horse Rutger.

He said of Crabtree's work on Brisco, " Her horses sounded so natural and real – their hooves, the sound of their hooves on the texture of the ground, the sound of saddle movement, bridle jingles – it was as good as anything I would want for a feature film, and this was episodic television.

Her best-known remark, uttered upon hearing about an indiscreet relationship, was " My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Her daughters Rohini and Gandharvi are the mothers of cattle and horses respectively.

Her dependence on horse-drawn transportation fostered her respect of horses.

Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare and is said to have been instrumental in abolishing the cruel practice of using the checkrein ( or " bearing rein ", a strap used to keep horses ' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck ).

Her mourning procession included 5, 000 soldiers, 650 police, 4, 000 lanterns, hundreds of scrolls honoring her, and giant wooden horses intended for her use in the afterlife.

Her husband survived her by four years, and was buried beside her ; in his will Richard requests to be buried " near to the tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster, my wife ; and I desire that my tomb be no higher than hers, that no men at arms, horses, hearse, or other pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches ... as was about the corpse of my wife, be allowed.

Her The Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as the nature of Man ; the " horseness " of horses ; and the divine in human form.

Her four winged horses are identified as the personifications of the four winds, Notos, Boreas, Zephyros and Euros.

Her main interest was in her Hungarian horses.

Her hermitage is located on the other side of the river, where people arrive for the romería ( pilgrimage ) in carts drawn by decorated horses.

Her room at the fort was dark, loud and smelly, as it was near the blacksmith shop and the courtyard where the horses and pack animals were pastured.

Her description is of the ' mast ' type of hobby horse, and Spooner followed Robert Morton Nance in expressing the view that ‘ the May day games and Morris Dances, with their own type of hobby-horse, which includes a rider, had been brought in from England too recently to have acquired Cornish names .’ It became imperative amongst the Celtic revivalists of the early twentieth century that the Tourney horse ( with its rider ) should be seen as English, or foreign, whereas the mast horses were to be understood as native, Celtic beasts, complete with Celtic names.

Her uniform was of rich, raw silk, in a shade which matched her hair, skin, housepaint, and cats, and since she was so thin as to be almost shapeless, she rather resembled a frozen fish stick.

`` Her basic hull form ( a teardrop ) and her nuclear power plant will be used for almost all new submarines, including the potent Polaris missile submarines '', the statement went on.

Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.

Her arm should be fully or almost fully extended overhead as well.

Her parents almost certainly married in 1121.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor, was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time.

Her letters to her son and his family have since almost all been lost ; but in one that survives, she wrote to Nicholas: " You know that my thoughts and prayers never leave you.

Her relationship with the Capitol label spanned almost three decades, aside from her brief but artistically rich detour ( 1952 – 1956 ) at Decca Records, where in 1956 she recorded one of her most acclaimed albums, Black Coffee.

Her husband, Lord Darnley, had been murdered in apparent revenge for the assassination of Rizzio ( who was a favourite of Mary's ), upon which the Queen almost immediately married the chief suspect.

Her devotion to her mother almost leads to her being left behind in England after the exile.

Her majesty is unaccompanied and, I assure you, the chambers are almost empty.

Her tendency to be witty and saucy in conversation, yet religiously devout and almost prudish in behavior, confused many of the English men but pleased some of the older socialites.

Her presence almost immediately gained attention, both as a woman and as someone who did not follow the rules.

Her malevolent, libertine nature, however, is kept well hidden from most people, as she created a façade of moral righteousness which makes her look as a virtuous and puritan woman to almost everyone on her entourage.

Her mother Xenia was so worried over the delivery that Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna said it was almost like Xenia was giving birth rather than Irina.

Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost 2-to-1, a " safe return ".

Her preparations for a romantic soiree designed to net her a husband from amongst the ranks of the Professors and her subsequent wooing by the indolent old Headmaster Bellgrove, provides some light comedy almost in the manner of P. G.

Her second album, newly released at the start of the series, is called " Venus " and her most popular song is " C ' est La Vie ", which is a Japanese pun: in Japanese, the French phrase and the name of her alter-ego, Sailor V, are pronounced almost identically ( as sērāvī ).

Her son Eugen said of her that human worth and justice almost had a higher standing with her than her deep piety.

Her Greek tutor described the ritual: “ Hairdressing takes almost two hours, she said, and while my hair is busy, my mind stays idle.

Her semifinals run would bring her ranking back to within the top 50 for the first time in almost a year.

During her first performance since the Uh Huh Her tour, at the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts on 26 May 2006, Harvey revealed that her next studio album would be almost entirely piano-based and in October, released The Peel Sessions 1991 – 2004 ; a compilation of songs recorded from 1991 to 2000 during her radio sessions with John Peel.

Her film career had spread over almost 20 years before she gained international renown as Pina in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist milestone Roma, città aperta ( Rome, Open City, 1945 ).

The official title of the office at this time was His or Her Majesty's " lieutenant for the county of x ", but as almost all office-holders were peers they were referred to as " lord lieutenant ".