centaur
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No one can convince her otherwise, and she decides to win her spouse back with an enchanted robe that the dying centaur Nessus told her was a love charm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
For reasons that have yet to be explained, parts of the centaur head are coated with a thin brown film, as are several other marble fragments from the Parthenon.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Grover, it turns out, is a satyr, charged with protecting Percy; Mr. Brunner is really a centaur named Chiron.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023
In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon Marbles.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2023
“Never,” said Hagrid irritably, “try an’ get a straight answer out of a centaur.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing centaur
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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