24 Metaphors for horn

The prong-horn is a curious compound.

" Captain Horn was a strong man, prompt in action, and no one could know him long without being assured of these facts.

Its horns were the chief point of interest to Dick; and, truly, they were astounding!

When far away their horns were the first things visible, and they much resembled the dry tops of dead pine trees, but a nearer view showed them to us as the proud monarchs of the plain.

Once upon a time the French Horn was a famous instrument, but now, considering the retreating strategy of the French leaders, it appears to be superseded by the Off I Glide.

When he had finished, she looked steadily at him for a few moments, and then she said: "Captain Horn, what you have told me are the plans and opinions of others.

The fourth beast with iron teeth that devoured and broke in pieces the rest was clearly the empire of Alexander, and the little horn that sprang up was the little horn which gored and mangled the helpless people of Jehovah.

Ink-horn is a very common epithet of contempt for pedantic and affected expressions.

For it had come to me like a flash, as Mr. Graves left, that the "Horn" on the paper slip might have been "Horner.

Horn is a solid, tenacious, fibrous material, and its density in the hoof varies in different situations.

The little horn is a blasphemous power; for it speaks great words against the Most High.

Seen from its outside, with its minarets, and Golden Horn, and Bosphorus, Constantinople is, probably, the most glorious spot on earth.

Their horns are their means of defense.

the horns are all a-tootin' as we rattle through the town, And we fellers are a-hootin' and a-jumpin' up and down,

"That Captain Horn," he cried, when speech came to him, "is the most despotic tyrant on the face of the earth!

"If horn and hoof be any proof, And if the foot be riven, Surely I am the very man That with the beast has striven!"

The time will come when the Horn will be a reg'lar harbour.

His jet-black horns are only about five or six inches in length, and the long, white hair with which he is covered obscures the expression of his limbs.

The horns of the altar are its last resort.

To those who have studied the prophecies of Daniel and John, horns upon a beast are no unfamiliar features.

The three blows of his hammer had fallen on nothing less than a huge mountain, instead of a giant, and left three deep glens dinted into its surface; the drinking-horn, which he had undertaken to empty, was the sea itself, or an outlet of the sea, which he had perceptibly lowered; while the cat was in reality the Midgard Serpent, which enringed the world in its coils, and the toothless she-wrestler was Old Age!

"The automobile horn outside was a signal, wasn't it?

When properly prepared the skin makes a beautiful mat for a drawing room, and the horns of a good buck are a handsome ornament to the hall or the verandah.

The horn, however, is the most coveted acquisition.

24 Metaphors for  horn