Erewhiles when he came home, Back from the war-field riding, it was with war-horns braying.
Soon as Matelan castle now from the ships was seen, Of sackbuts and of trumpets loud began the din, Of horns as well as fluting, and drums that men were beating.
Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi had an old cow with horns so exceedingly broad that one could certainly sit between them if he had a mind to do so.
There was once a custom in Lynn for the workhouse children to be allowed to go out with horns and garlands every May-day, after which a certain worthy gentleman gave them a good dinner.
A few years ago in the Isle of Man the hillsides blazed with bonfires and resounded to horns on the 11th of May (May-eve, Old Style).
Much the same form is observed in Mozart's violin concertos, which, with one exception, are scored for oboes, horns and strings.
Why, it only requires a few more horns and trumpets, some tubas, a rattle and other percussion instruments, to come up to the latest twentieth century scoring.
And above the long undulation of these crowded animals one saw some white mane rising in the wind like a wave, or some sharp horns sticking out, and the heads of men running about.
Through openings in the hedges one could see into the huts, some pigs on a dung-heap, or tethered cows rubbing their horns against the trunk of trees.
No Deer exists or has existed in which the hornsare so completely branched.
It is noteworthy that in Hydropotes, where the canines are also very large, horns are absent.
As a rule there are horns in both sexes; but this rule is not without exceptions, of which one is the genus Strepsiceros, the Koodoo.
The horns of the male are long and nearly straight; they are ringed in front.
Bos frontalis, the Indian Gayal, has a white caudal disc like the last species, but the forehead is flat and the horns curve but little.
It is usually stated as part of the definition of this group that they do not possess horns of the type of those met with in the Cervicornia and Cavicornia.
Ourebia is a less-known genus, larger in size, but withhorns of the same character, though longer.
Both can be referred back to the primitive conditions seen in the paired horns of the Giraffe.
There is one or there are two horns on the fore-part of the head, which are, as has already been pointed out, structures sui generis, and not exactly comparable with the horns of other living Ungulates.
There is but little in common between the hornsof a Giraffe and of a Rhinoceros.
The only two points which distinguish all Bovidae from all Cervidae[210] are the nature of the horns already described, and the polycotyledonary condition of the placenta.
Horns are confined to this group of the Selenodontia.
The horns are not quite as large as those of the last species, but measurements give a length (along the curve) of 32 to 40 inches.
The horns of the specimen figured have not nearly reached their full dimensions.
The sound of clashing horns and cracking hoofs was deafening.
Marushka slipped her hand into his and he led her into the house, entering by the large hall, on the walls of which hung deer horns and wolf heads, while a huge stuffed wolf stood at one end, holding a lamp in his paws.
Ox carts lumbered down the streets, the huge horns of the oxen frightening Marushka.
This goat he wounded very badly and lost, but some days later a Turk saw a large goat fall from a cliff and remain suspended by its horns in a tree, where he despatched it.
The strength and rapidity with which a sable bull uses its horns is a wonderful thing to see.
Then like a flash the horns are swept sideways and the attacker pierced.
The buffalo having missed my boys, who had all climbed into or were standing behind trees, soon slowed down to a trot, but was evidently still eager for revenge, as he came round in a half-circle with nose upraised and horns laid back.
In two days he reached the Maputa and proceeded overland, with three women carriers, to Wissels' station, where he found numerous freshly captured skins and hornsof the animal he had come to hunt.
At last dawned a day of great good fortune, for the hunter met and killed a great bull whose horns have seldom been equalled by any taken out of the Yukon Territory.
He was killed in an instant, both horns going right through the whole body, between heart and lungs.
The ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise.
Romish religion pervades all the Christian community, so far as allegiance to the beast or his hornsis either enjoined or tolerated.
Now look over the streets of the great city: contemplate the horns of the beast: ascertain which is most guilty of persecution.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon hishorns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
The fact of the ten horns of the beast, now wearing crowns, proves that the time to which the prophecy refers, is that which followed the division of the empire into ten kingdoms.
The "seven horns and seven eyes," symbolize the power and wisdom of the Mediator.
It has been already shown that thesehorns represent the kingdoms into which the Roman empire was divided, (v.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Hence it follows that we must date the beginning of the 1260 years after the first four trumpets; for by these the western Roman empire was dismembered or broken, that the ten horns might appear.
The rest of the horns are no less blasphemous in their haughty pretensions.
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14.
The markets of Manaos receive their supplies of beef from the national stock ranges on the Rio Branco, and it is from this region that hides and horns are received for export.
Between the horns of this amazing dilemma the Federal amendment and State suffrage seem to be caught fast.
The delegates will look out upon the placid waters of the Indian Ocean and will ride to and fro from their meetings in rickshas drawn by Zulus in the most fantastic dress imaginable, the chief feature being long horns bound upon the head.
Her friend sawed off the horns and gave them to her.
If thou wouldst see that cow in health again, the horns must go.
So nocking an arrow on the string he ran at full speed directly at the sheep, and when half way he saw the tip of his hornsrise above the ledge and knew it was time to stop.
His stomach had been ripped open by the horns of the bull, and his entrails dragged upon the ground.
The banderillero held his ground as though he had been tied to the spot; and it looked as if he was surely to be transfixed by the horns of the angry bull.
A team of half a dozen mules, tricked out in the gayest colors, galloped into the ring; and, when a sling had been passed over the horns of the dead bull, he was dragged out at a side gate.
They do not kill the bull, nor are any horses gored to death; for the horns of the animal are tipped with large wooden balls.
The legs of the men are cased in splints of wood and sole–leather to protect them from the horns of the bull.
The antilopoid animal called Suja, has horns both on the male and female, it occurs in small herds fifteen to twenty in the wooded mountains, its hair is of the same structure as in the Moschiferus antilope; colour brown.
The blare of those horns is too shrill and the rapid pursuit through bush and bramble too daring.
Your lamps are out, and the music of yourhorns has died away.
The island rang as yet with the tooting horns and rattling teams of mail-coaches; a gay sight was the road in merry England in those days, before steam-engines arose and flung its hostelry and chivalry over.
It usually has a blade made from the brow antler or one of the broad palms from the horns of the reindeer.
The head is severed from the neck and discarded if there be no portion of the horns which is needed to serve some purpose, such as a handle for a knife or other tool.
In her abandonment Effie May might have said rather more than she meant to say, if at that moment a great honking of horns and shouting of gay farewells had not announced the return of the tallyho from the Derby.
The tallyho responded with tooting horns and waving parasols.
And when with a great shouting and tooting of horns the tallyho drew up under the porte-cochere, her determination weakened.
It is a good time to dehorn them when about one year old, as they will be more peaceful subsequently than if the horns had never been allowed to grow.
The children who have made a good choice, after the selection is finished, pursue the devils, making the sign of horns with fingers extended from the forehead.
The English formula for this purpose is given by Tylor thus, "Buck, buck, how many horns do I hold up?
Now the first and fourth and second and third lock horns and fight.
In the way of fixings for this, you need only four pairs of horns and four cheap bows.
Real deer horns may be used, but they are scarce and heavy.
But when he came slowly forward, and the old Chipmunk saw him waving his horns and looking like a green poisonous reptile, she screamed, "Run, my children!
The Caribou rush toward that side and face it in a row, threatening, with horns low, as they snort, stamp, and kick up the dust.
Their heads are high, and they hold the horns on their heads, with one hand, as they proudly march around.
TALE 97 The Caribou Dance [Illustration: Horns for the Caribou Dance] The easiest of our campfire dances to learn, and the best for quick presentation, is the Caribou Dance.
They lower their heads, lock horns held safely away from the head, snort, kick up the dust, and dance around each other two or three times.
The skull and horns of a great mountain goat, which were lying on the ground, filled the Europeans with wonder, but this was hardly a sign to inspire them with hopes of abundant food and gold.
I have seen some of their horns the size of which was something to marvel at.
They had extremely large bodies and long wool; their horns were very thick and large, and when they run they throw back their heads and put their horns on the ridge of their back.
Although the height and the horns are clearly those of a buck deer, the rest of the description is a very good account of the bison.
The horns are short and thick, so that they are not seen much above the hair.
Do not be tossing the queen's English on the horns of an Irish bull," said the Professor.
Only in mockery," said the Professor as the bull rushed forward, and, thrusting his hornsthrough the robes of the Holy Mary, lifted her from the earth.
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
