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Example sentences for "unicorns"

Lexicographically close words:
unice; unicellular; unico; unicolor; unicorn; unicum; unidad; unidentifiable; unidentified; unidirectional
  1. Phillis tells the druid Adamas that Astrea was seen sleeping by the fountain of the Truth of Love, and that the unicorns which guarded those waters were observed to approach her, and lay their heads on her lap.

  2. They trapped ten unicorns and hobbled their legs, with other ropes reaching from horn to hind leg on each side to prevent them from swinging back their heads or even lifting them high.

  3. Two unicorns were grazing in between and the hunters were swinging downwind from them.

  4. And in the massive corral beyond town forty half-tame unicorns trampled the ground and hated the world, wanting to kill something.

  5. Even the unicorns seemed to sense what was coming and they rumbled and squealed in their corrals at night, red-eyed with the lust for blood and sometimes attacking the log walls with blows that shook the ground.

  6. The last of the unicorns were going north and the prowlers had long since gone.

  7. Any other time, if we had ordinary bows," he complained, "the unicorns would be popping up to charge us from all directions.

  8. They had expected the capture and hobbling of the unicorns to be a difficult and dangerous job and it was.

  9. There were a few books that had survived the trampling of the unicorns and others could be written with ink made from the black lance tree bark upon parchment made from the thin inner skin of unicorn hides.

  10. The adaptation of the unicorns proceeded in the following years, but not their domestication.

  11. It seems that every time we spot a few woods goats there will be a dozen unicorns in between.

  12. The main southward migration of unicorns was over but there were often lone stragglers who might appear at any time.

  13. Prentiss turned back to face the unicorns and to look at the trees in the nearby grove.

  14. Then the unicorns had found them and the female had been too crippled to fight.

  15. But the automatic crossbow poured a rain of arrows into the faces of the unicorns that caused them to swing aside in pain and enraged astonishment.

  16. Out of this passage most of the modern Unicorns have been described and figured.

  17. For he loves to hear That Unicorns may be betrayed with trees, And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers.

  18. The unicorns make a great noise in blowing, and, when at a distance, are often mistaken for whales.

  19. Several of the sea-unicorns were here observed at no great distance from the ship.

  20. For he loves to hear, That unicorns may be betrayed with trees, And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers.

  21. Perhaps some of your correspondents can inform me how two unicorns became the "supporters" of the "achievement" of the Scottish kings.

  22. She believed in Unicorns only when she saw one.

  23. Alice smilingly retorts: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too?

  24. With Unicorns we feel the nostalgia of the infinite, the sorcery of dolls, the salt of sex, the vertigo of them that skirt the edge of perilous ravines, or straddle the rim of finer issues.

  25. On the fore front o' that castell feir, Twa unicorns were gaye to see; The picture of a knight, and a ladye bright, And the grene hollin abune their brie.

  26. Decius tells how "unicorns may be betray'd with trees," alluding to their traditionary mode of capture.

  27. In Kansu and Kokonor we were told that unicorns were rare, one or two in a thousand.

  28. These unicorns one gave to the Sultan of Mecha as a most precious and rare gift.

  29. These unicorns were given to the Sultan of Mecca as a most precious and rare gift.

  30. Tamerlane slew unicorns and rhinoceroses on the frontier of Cashmere, (Sherefeddin, b.

  31. I saw the unicorns trampling in my dream.

  32. I know that I saw the unicorns trampling, and then a figure, a many-changing figure, holding some bright thing.

  33. There on the mountain, a thousand white unicorns trampling; a thousand riders with their swords drawn .

  34. We are very few now, but the army of the Unicorns will be a great army!

  35. It is the League of the Unicorns is the league that will fight and destroy the power of England and King George.

  36. NOTE 2] There are also plenty of unicorns in that country, and abundance of game in birds and beasts.

  37. You travel therein for fifteen days through a very unfrequented country, and through great woods abounding in elephants and unicorns and numbers of other wild beasts.

  38. He saw, too, the fair castle, the like of which he had never seen before, with the two gay unicorns on the forefront, and the picture of the knight and lady with the green holly above their brow.

  39. Besides wild elephants, there are unicorns in this country, which are much less than elephants, being haired like the buffalo, but their feet are like those of die elephant.

  40. They are filthy beasts that love to stand and wallow in the mire, and they do not in the least resemble those unicorns which are said to be found in some other parts of the world, which allow themselves to be taken by maids[11].

  41. In this country there are great numbers of unicorns or rhinoceroses, and plenty of other beasts and birds.

  42. I left that area because the other unicorns didn't seem to understand my views on things.

  43. As he sat and pored over the pages of The Encyclopedia of Places Where Unicorns Can be Successfully Sold on the Black Market With No Questions Asked Except When the Salesman Happens to be a Mangaboo: Vol.

  44. I saw the unicorns trampling, trampling, but not in the wine troughs.

  45. There on the mountain, a thousand white unicorns trampling; a thousand riders with their swords drawn—the swords clashing!

  46. Can’t you see it is the League of the Unicorns is the league that will fight and destroy the power of England and King George?

  47. And there, some two miles away, rose the low, bare hill upon the crest of which the professor had first seen the troop of unicorns standing out against the background of pale primrose sky as they grazed.

  48. As the Flying Fish settled down quite close to the spot where the carcases of the four unicorns were lying, von Schalckenberg waved his hand and shouted to the little group on deck-- "Ach!

  49. He told himself that the unicorns must drink somewhere, and why not here?

  50. Furthermore, there are those unicorns to be hunted for afresh.

  51. The next question was, would Mildmay be so very obliging as to go back to the ship and bring her to the spot where the fallen unicorns lay?

  52. And if the unicorn is what I am thinking of, then there certainly must be a unicorn, in spite of the fact that unicorns are unreal.

  53. A thing cannot have a property, unless it is there to have it, and, since unicorns and temporal facts do have the property of being thought of, there certainly must be such things.

  54. I suppose it will be quite obvious to everyone here that it is a fallacy; that the fact that we can think of unicorns is not sufficient to prove that, in any sense at all, there are any unicorns.

  55. And similarly what "Unicorns are unreal" means is that the property of being a unicorn belongs to nothing.

  56. The lions and the unicorns are forthwith extra-enchanted, so as to guard the fountain--an excellent arrangement, but subject to some awkwardnesses in the sequel.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unicorns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.