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Definition of Four horsemen

1. Noun. (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse.

Definition of Four horsemen

1. Noun. (alternative form of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) ¹

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Literary usage of Four horsemen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... in front of the centre of the Greys, and at a distance from it of five or six horses' length, there was gathered a group of four horsemen. ..."

2. One America Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and by Sheldon Hackney (1999)
"... four horsemen OF THE APOCALYPSE Racial and ethnic diversity, and the problems inherent in identity politics, are not the only things the American people ..."

3. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1881)
"... 1781. four horsemen's tents for his Field Officers—In the mean time he will Sept. 15th be contented with Soldiers tents made rather larger than the ..."

4. American Problems of Reconstruction: A National Symposium on the Economic by Elisha Michael Friedman (1918)
"The four horsemen of the Apocalypse' is so far the distinguished novel of ... "The four horsemen of the Apocalypse' is a great novel, one of the three of ..."

5. Life of Sir Henry Lawrence by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale (1872)
"... as before, with four horsemen, I met the Lord, who had with him four Englishmen and twenty European z2 horsemen, near the cantonment. ..."

6. Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs (1904)
"It represents the vision of the four horsemen, described by Saint John in the sixth chapter of Revelation. "For simple grandeur," writes Professor ..."

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