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Example sentences for "reindeer horn"

  • Among the bones were those of the stag, roe, pig, horse, ox, and portions of reindeer horn.

  • On the lower end is a dish-shaped piece of reindeer horn, two and one-eighth inches long and seven-eighths of an inch wide.

  • The drumstick is a piece of reindeer horn cut as before described; or else, as if to add to the din, a gun-cap box is pierced through from side to side and a few pebbles or shot placed within.

  • The stick used for beating the drum consists of a piece of reindeer horn cut so as to have a thin and narrow handle a foot in length and terminating in a knob more than an inch long and as thick as the portion of horn permits.

  • These had only a portion of the curve and a part of the runner shod with bone and pieces of reindeer horn, secured to the runner by means of pegs.

  • When Scarface was very old he made a shaft-straightener of a piece of reindeer horn.

  • Others pounded the skins with their hands, and still others pounded with hammers of reindeer horn.

  • There were workshops at Laugerie-Haute and Laugerie-Basse, where weapons and utensils were manufactured; and they are noted for the abundance of instruments made of reindeer horn.

  • The bone implements were barbless arrows, a well-shaped and sharply pointed bodkin made of the horn of the roe-deer, and other tools made of reindeer horn.

  • The pieces of reindeer horn, terminating in a scoop, may have served as a spoon to extract marrow.

  • But the most remarkable finds of the Reindeer epoch consist of portions of reindeer horn, showing etchings or engravings which have been traced by some sharp point, no doubt by a flint implement.

  • They had bows and arrows, daggers of reindeer horn, spears tipped with flint or bone, and harpoons.

  • The needles are made of reindeer horn, and they were not only smoothly polished, but the eyes are of such a minute size, and withal so regularly made, that many at first could not believe they were drilled by the use of flint alone.

  • It somewhat resembles the pin of reindeer horn in the Eskimo arrow-flaker, shortly to be mentioned.

  • Now no man, though he prunes, wittingly casts away what is good.

  • For, I saw the church full; and one went this way, and another that way.

  • For those habits, when grown, we root out and cast away.

  • Or was it then good, even for a while, to cry for what, if given, would hurt?

  • Most of them were bits of hoop-iron or copper, worked down to a blade, and fastened upon long handles of reindeer horn.

  • These harpoons were generally made of reindeer horn (Figs.

  • We must not forget to mention, although it probably belongs to a much more recent period, a fish-hook in reindeer horn, now in the Christiania Museum.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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