The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 171
allothers, except, perhaps, those driven by Messala.Steadily they drew on until it was a race betweenthe Roman and the Jew. In the breathless stillness of the excited multi-tude, the thunder of the horses hoofs and theroll of the chariot-wheels seemed to fill the arenawith that sense of hatred… … 366 TWO WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN STORIES 367 HOW BEN HUR DEFEATED HISHAUGHTY RIVAL IN THE RACE A shriek of indignation went up from all theJewish spectators, and from many a Roman, too,as those beautiful Arab steeds, trained in gentle-ness, and never before touched with a lash,startled and terrified by…
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