Now, as he took the large ox-horn of our quarantine-apple cider (which we always keep apart from the rest, being too good except for the quality), he let his fingers dwell on ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Assuming her clothes, she comes forward, holding in her hand an ox-horn that has been filled with water from her bath; and this she sprinkles over the assembled company -- reserving a portion for the soldiers drawn up on parade beneath her window. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
One of the guardsmen held out a full ox-horn of wine, and the Knacker seized it and forced it into Constans's hand. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
Seizing the ox-horn, he dashed its contents full in his tormentor's face, and Kurt, the Knacker, half strangled, fell back coughing and breathing stertorously. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
From far up the avenue came the boom of an ox-horn, militant, almost brazen in its sonority. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
Imbrus; the waters hissed as they closed over her, and she sank into the bottom as the lead at the end of an ox-horn, that is sped to carry death to fishes. ❋ Unknown (1898)
From an ox-horn the master blew a short, sharp recall and at once ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
Then he made himself a powder-flask out of an ox-horn that he got and boiled till it was soft ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
The sermons were preached in the morning, at noon, and at twilight, when all the multitude were summoned to the grand central stand in the square of the encampment by sounding a tin trumpet or ox-horn. ❋ Sparks, William H (1870)
Now, as he took the large ox-horn of our quarantine-apple cider (which we always keep apart from the rest, being too good except for the quality), he let his fingers dwell on Annie's, by some sort of accident, while he lifted his beaver gallantly, and gazed on her face in the light from the west. ❋ Unknown (1862)
What, artistically, has been achieved here is extraordinary - even if some of the crusted, scabbed-up knees are paint-soaked lumps of cork-bark; even if the tears are glass, the fingernails ox-horn, and the teeth stained and carved ivory. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Though young Squire Marwood was so thirsty, he spent much time over his cider, or at any rate over the ox-horn, and he made many bows to Annie, and drank health to all the family, and spoke of me as if I had been his very best friend at Blundell's; whereas he knew well enough all the time that we had nought to say to one another; he being three years older, and therefore of course disdaining me. ❋ Unknown (1862)
The inhabitants crowded and pressed so much upon the strangers that the bailiff, or resident factor of the island, blew with his ox-horn, calling out to the natives to stand off and let the gentlemen come forward to the laird; upon which one of the islanders, as spokesman, called out, “God ha’e us, man! thou needsna mak’ sic a noise. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Of course, you've got a sweet, little, rosebud mouth; but you need a big, ox-horn mustache in this vocation. " ❋ Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1901)
Assuming her clothes, she comes forward, holding in her hand an ox-horn that has been filled with water from her bath; and this she sprinkles over the assembled company ” reserving a portion for the soldiers drawn up on parade beneath her window. ❋ Anonymous (1879)
The inhabitants crowded and pressed so much upon the strangers that the bailiff, or resident factor of the island, blew with his ox-horn, calling out to the natives to stand off and let the gentlemen come forward to the laird; upon which one of the islanders, as spokesman, called out, "God ha'e us, man! thou needsna mak 'sic a noise. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
