Word: horned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dinner-horn's call, ringing clear in my ears...
Then the housewife's horn we'd hear...
...Iside!" without remembering that the volume was increased by Undergraduate lungs? But what a fall of pride! Do we not see one of our number among the Ethiopian prisoners forcibly suggesting the end man at the negro minstrels? And then the bearers of "those idols," - a cow minus a horn, a statue minus a limb, - most imposing, no doubt, from the audience...
...hats, flannel shirts, double-decked boots, six-foot staves, knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands. Soothed by sight of Freshman's pocket-Bible. Enter a lovely village. Setting sun, lowing herds, etc. Both...
...land side the two columns brought from the East were wreathed with light; a single band of white defined the arches of the ducal palace, and two or three perpendicular bars of red the columns. The Corinthian custom-house at the entrance of the Grand Canal, and forming one horn of the crescent-shaped harbor, was all ablaze; its body was red, the lines of its architecture were white...