"Wheels within Wheels" Quiz

[Marsimbo]

1. BC Included among Nahum`s portents of disaster. 2. DF Her attribute is the wheel. 3. T Rides in this led to very sticky ends. 4. MS Wystan`s version of Major`s spinster cyclist. 5.TGW Does it hold the franchise in Paradise? 6. TWC at my back but closing rapidly. 7. S Bessie Smith`s driver was not expected to do this! Many thanks for any help with these I am stuck on.

[jno]

time's winged chariot. St Catherine's attribute is the wheel, but I don't know where DF comes in, maybe it's someone else too.

[jno]

http://www.theanswerb...e/Question840743.html

[shaneystar2]

2 Could be Dame Fortune .
Loads about her and her various other names on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna
I think there's a Dame Fortune in a tarot deck .She spins the wheel and what have you and you get to know if you are going to win the lottery :)
The reference to Major (John) in clue btw is from his lines from some naff stuff he wrote about " spinsters cycling to evensong," all about what evokes a typical English Sunday ,which ties in with Audens Miss Gee .

[shaneystar2]

1 Could be Brandished chariots
"And are brandished chariots clad coloured cypress etc "
From various versions of the bible text .

[racewalker]

Try Nahum 2:13 it can be interpreted as burning chariots from KJB