Though a fabulous animal, the Unicorn has properties and qualities attributed to it which endear it to writers on Heraldry and on Emblems.
Cæsar, and among other things names the unicorn as a wonder to bring him to the Capitol.
Robert Spencer at Holtye, which he was carrying to that gentleman's actual present address, theUnicorn Hotel, Baltash.
Mr. Morgan faithfully delivered those letters at the Unicorn Hotel at Baltash, with the exception of one letter; and on the morrow he treated himself to a trip up to town.
It seemed as if this unicorn knew of the plots weaving around it.
The common narwhal, orunicorn of the sea, often attains a length of sixty feet.
Some of these tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with success.
Besides," thought I, "all roads lead back to Europe; and the unicorn may be amiable enough to hurry me towards the coast of France.
Hobson's letter I no more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea.
The unicorn was half goat and half horse, of immaculate whiteness; it bore a marvellous sword upon its forehead.
If however a damsel corrupt and no longer a maid approached it, the unicorn slew her immediately.
The unicorn soon came towards him and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would spit him on its horn without more ceremony.
The unicorn ran against the tree with all its strength, and struck its horn so fast in the trunk that it had not strength enough to draw it out again, and thus it was caught.
In the forest roams a unicorn which does great harm, and thou must catch it first.
I smote seven at one blow, I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room?
On reaching the Unicorn Precipice on his way back, he heard some one call: "Chiang Tzu-ya!
He receives the List of Immortals From the Unicorn Precipice he went on to the Jade Palace of Abstraction.
Beyond the Unit and Unicorn exhibit stood some planks of a teaky quality, beautifully polished, and showing numbers of small dark knots, and wavy patterns, which gave a walnuty appearance to the wood.
Next to the Nellie exhibit was a pile of rock from the Unit and Unicorn Reef--in the Selukwe district, Eastern Rhodesia--but I saw no gold in any one of these rocks.
Next to the Lion and the Unicorn The Bulldog may be reckoned The truest Exemplar and symbol Of our great nation.
More plausible is the view that, as the Lion obviously expresses the British character, so the Unicornsomewhat more subtly expresses the British intellect.
The Lion is an actual beast, the Unicorn a chimera; and is not England in fact always buoyed up on one side by some chimera, as on the other by a sense for fact?
The warning signal was being sounded from the center of town; a unicorn horn that gave out the call they had used in the practice alarms.
It ripped at the unicorn's throat, swerving its charge, and the unicorn plunged past him.
It must have required courage for the old ones to dare unicorn attacks with bows so thin that only the small area behind the unicorn's jaws was vulnerable to their arrows.
They became a swirling blur, the horn of the unicorn swinging and stabbing and the attacks of the prowler like the swift, relentless thrusting of a rapier.
She ran to it to pick it up, the unicorn forgotten.
The unicorn had headed north and that could be for but one purpose: to bring enough reinforcements to finish the job.
So for eleven years he had studied and trained until there was no one who could use a bow or spear quite as well as he could, no one who could travel as far in a day or spot a unicorn ambush as quickly.
He had warned her that someday a unicorn would kill her--but she was reckless by nature and given to restless moods in which she could not stand the confinement of the town.
Barber, trying to develop a strain of herbs that would grow in the lower elevation of the caves, was killed by a unicorn as he worked in his test plot below the caves.
She turned and started slowly back down the hill, not seeing the unicorn as she passed it, the bloody spear trailing disconsolately behind her and her head hanging in shame.
Through it, dimly, he saw the unicorn fall and heard its dying trumpet blast as it called to another.
The unicorn ripped the sod in deep furrows as it whirled back to Prentiss and the remaining rifleman; not turning in the manner of four-footed beasts of Earth but rearing and spinning on its hind feet.
Woods were not far from both sides of the landing site and unicorn corrals were hidden in them.
Bru the Bear sat on his haunches before the King; Rango the Gray Ape stood with his muscular arms folded, and Loo the Unicorn reclined, much as a horse does, between his fellow-councillors.
So Kiki changed him back to his former shape, and the Unicorn departed to join his people.
The beasts were frightened, too, fearing they would share the fate of Gugu, so a stampede began when Rango the Gray Ape sprang into the forest, and Bru the Bear and Loo the Unicorn followed as quickly as they could.
If you are a magician transform the Unicorn into a man.
Upon the wall, the lady with the unicorn was not beautiful among the cavaliers in a forest full of flowers and birds.
Pale-tinted Gothic tapestries, which let one perceive in a marvellous forest a lady at the feet of whom a unicorn lay on the grass, extended above cabinets to the painted beams of the ceiling.
So when they got close to the hill, an unicorn came tearing along at them, just as if he were going to eat them up all alive.
So Boots did as he was told, and when the unicorn had eaten his fill, they said they would give him a score or two of pigs' carcasses, if he would go before them and bore a hole in the hill, so that they might get through it.
The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown; The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town.
The animal that would not eat was clearly too weak to pull, so the harness had to be altered, and the three sound animals arranged unicorn fashion, while the sick one was fastened to the rear of the cart.
The Unicorn was an unusually pious person, and on arriving at the table, to John's astonishment, gently but firmly he grasped the knife with which he was about to cut the meat.
It was the Unicornwho spoke, and the Vilderbeeste made no reply, but advanced with him to where the horses stood.
The two Boers ceased firing, and the Unicorn shook his head softly and remarked to his companion that the damned English people in the water could not be much wetter than they were on the bank.
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Near the unicorn was a very small animal, which at first I took for a young unicorn; but it looked more like a yearling lion.
The idlers at the Unicorn had seen Gilbert enter Dr.
Three days afterwards, there was another assemblage of the Kennett Volunteers at the Unicorn Tavern.
Whoever it was, the man escaped; but by a singular coincidence, the Irish ostler disappeared that night from the Unicorn tavern, and was never again seen in the neighborhood.
Then he slowly followed, stealing across the fields and around the stables, to the back-door of the Unicorn bar-room.
He would have gone up to the Unicorn for a little stronger refreshment, but did not dare to venture out of sight of the house.
If either of the three had happened to look steadily at the back window of the bar-room, they might have detected, in the dusk, the face of Dougherty, the Irish ostler of the Unicorn Tavern.
The landlord of the Unicorn was highly satisfied with this arrangement, but no one noticed the interest with which the ostler, an Irishman named Dougherty, listened to the discussion.
When they reached the Unicorntavern at dusk, Gilbert found Joe Fairthorn impatiently waiting for him.
They were not aware that at the very moment this influence was profoundest in their hearts, new rumors of Sandy Flash's movements had reached Kennett Square, and were being excitedly discussed at the Unicorn Tavern.
Sally asked again, as they reached the corner, and the loungers on the porch of the Unicorn Tavern beyond, perceiving Gilbert, sprang from their seats to ask for news of the chase.
In 1584, is an entry, "Payit to David Williamson for making and upputting of the Unicorn upon the head of the Croce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unicorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
