"Keep right on till you come to the horn-works," I heard a voice whisper, and the words had little or no meaning to me, for I was not familiar with the names of different portions of a regular fort; but the sergeant seemed to understand the command, for he began to creep in a southerly direction, still keeping within the shadow of the wall, until we arrived where was a stockade.

That condition of the wall in which, owing to the softness of the horn and the oblique direction of the horn fibres, the heels are unable properly to bear the body-weight, and, as a consequence, curve in beneath the sole.

We cannot sell our tobacco except to English merchants, and we cannot buy a horn spoon except it comes in an English ship.

O, in what a mighty vein am I now against horn-books!

Soon the darkness came, and we were given a tallow dip in a horn lantern hung on a nail to light us to food.

Then he produced some papers, and putting on big horn spectacles, proceeded to instruct me in them.

Among them the supernumeraries, the horn-blowers and the trumpeters, were distributed into three centuries.

It is a common horn-handle knife, having one blade about five inches long.

Anthony Guerrera French horn method.

The papillæ of the coronary cushion secrete the horn tubules forming the wall, and the papillæ of the perioplic ring secrete the varnish-like veneer of thin horn covering the outside surface of the hoof.

These latter mainly carried shotguns and wore floppy blue caps and long blue blouses, which buttoned down their backs with big horn buttons, like little girls' pinafores.

Vain boasters, liars, makeshifts, they are all; Men that, removed from their ink-horn terms, Bring forth no action worthy of their bread.

In fact, the horn tube may be regarded as what it really is, a modified hair.

The managers tried to get the band to play some tune that would soothe and hold the audience till an explanation could be made, but somebody had thrown a hornets' nest under the band seats and the horn players got stung on the lips so they couldn't play, and the band all lit out for a beer garden.

My feet were doing such a horn-pipe I had trouble to keep my eye steady at the peep-hole.

They were now going, as they always did after "horn-blow" in the afternoon, (four o'clock,) to their grounds, where they should stay till dark.

The great round coil behind was all real and solid, though it was wound about with no thought save of security, and fastened with a buffalo-horn comb.

[Illustration: LONG-HORN COW.] 591.

He dilated for thirty minutes upon the horn-blowing at Jericho, the siege, the wall-falling, and the sin of Achan; and then wound up by telling his hearersdrawing the moral from Achan's fatethat if they did wrong they would be sure to be found out.

Jew and gentile, greaser and dude, tin-horn gamblers and tenderfeet, hayseeds and merchants, jostled each other good humouredly.

Birds are also very numerous, and among them is the horn-bill; the noise made by this bird resembles a loud barking; report speaks of them as an excellent bird for the table.

A horn plague of this money, for it causeth many horns to bud; and for money many men are horned; for when maids are forced to love where they like not, it makes them lie where they should not.

It is well known that these horn sheaths are at times shed and reproduced, but the exact regularity with which the process takes place is by no means certain, although such direct evidence as there is goes to prove that it occurs annually in the autumn.

The monkish legend goes on to tell that on the next morning the King crossed to the mainland in a boat, and wound his horn thrice, which drew to him before noon five hundred men.

The breadstuffs, the beef, the pork, the turkies, the chickens, the woollen and cotton fabrics, the hats, the shoes, the socks, the "horn flints and bark nutmegs,"[A] the machinery, the sugar-kettles, the cotton-gins, the axes, the hoes, the drawing-chains of the North, would be as much needed by the South, the day after the separation as the day before.