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Example sentences for "cornucopia"

Lexicographically close words:
corns; cornstalks; cornstarch; cornu; cornua; cornucopias; corolla; corollaries; corollary; corollas
  1. Behind her a cornucopia pours out fruit, corn, &c.

  2. A rudder is introduced, emblematical of his situation as Governor: the serpent and mirror, engraved thereon, point out the prudence of his administration; and a cornucopia conveys the idea of the felicity of it.

  3. In one of the other two, which are on either side of that one, is the Goddess of Power, and in the other Abundance with the Cornucopia at her feet.

  4. The cornucopia was in flow and humankind's first outbound and inbound highways to the greater universe were complete and working.

  5. The second option would be the ultimate gamble: winning would bring the cornucopia sought throughout the ages.

  6. Beside him is a goddess with a cornucopia, and a smaller divinity with a cornucopia and an apple.

  7. In certain cases figures of squatting and horned goddesses with cornucopia occur.

  8. Perhaps we shall not be far wrong in regarding such gods, on the whole, as Cernunnos, a god of abundance to judge by his emblems, and by the cornucopia held by his companions, probably divinities of fertility.

  9. A globe, open book, scroll, caduceus, and cornucopia of fruit complete the accessories.

  10. The sides of the frame are embellished with the caduceus and a cornucopia of fruit.

  11. The Prince could not well help it; he poured out the whole cornucopia of his love on the Doctor, and took away from him all the freedom which the latter had been minded in the beginning so sacredly to maintain.

  12. A small cornucopia of paper is placed upon each string.

  13. The mechanicians hold the ends of the string while the aviator, at the signal to go, blows the cornucopia along the string.

  14. Through these the tiny flowers peep in two rows of thirty-five or forty bright purple or pink petals, recurved into the pretty cornucopia effect that we have seen so often among the clumps of Pincushions on our way across the desert.

  15. The cornucopia is, in my mind, unmistakably implied in these mythical data.

  16. Scandinavian tradition, in the short poem on the dwarf Allwis, offers us the cornucopia in the cup formed of the defence of oxen (i.

  17. The Scandinavian cornucopia made of the horns of oxen.

  18. From the cow-moon comes forth the horn of abundance; from the cornucopia to the cup the passage is easy.

  19. After the westward vanishing, Wahaska saw him no more until he returned in his vigorous prime, a veteran soldier of fortune upon whom the goddess had poured a golden shower out of some cornucopia of the Colorado mines.

  20. The tilting of the golden cornucopia had made him a ruthless money-grubber, but he never questioned his daughter's demands.

  21. Refreshments should be exceedingly simple, and a souvenir, such as a cornucopia or handful of motto-papers, gayly tinted and full of candy, will be much appreciated.

  22. Then put your mixture in a cornucopia of stiff paper, with a hole in the point, through which press it on a pan, forming little shapes similar to lady fingers.

  23. I bet that girl fired the cornucopia with the fancy vest two days after her steady left.

  24. Then came the boom in cattle, and Fortune, stepping gingerly among the cactus thorns, came and emptied her cornucopia at the doorstep of the ranch.

  25. On the early coins of Cleopatra we see her head on the one side and the eagle or the cornucopia on the other side, with the name of "Queen Cleopatra.

  26. On the other side is the cornucopia between two stars, with the name of "King Ptolemy.

  27. He felt that with the offer of his name he could pour out a veritable cornucopia of abundant glory, honours, wealth at a woman's feet.

  28. It was so passionate and irresistible that she could hardly remain at the table until the replete Cornucopia rose, rattling with beads.

  29. After the morning meal had been eaten, John devoured the contents of a candy-filled cornucopia from the tree, and drew on his stocking cap, coat, and mittens.

  30. This our earth produces not only a sufficiency, but a superabundance, and pours a cornucopia of good things down upon us.

  31. Eagle on thunderbolt to left; cornucopia in field in front of eagle.

  32. Eagle on thunderbolt to left, head turned to right; cornucopia in field over back of eagle.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornucopia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; accumulation; backlog; bonanza; budget; collection; commissary; cornucopia; cumulation; dump; font; fountain; heap; hoard; inventory; larder; lode; mass; material; materiel; mine; munitions; pile; plenitude; plenty; provision; quarry; rations; repertory; resource; rick; source; spring; stack; staple; stock; stockpile; supplies; treasure; treasury; vein; well; wellspring