horn-book

(Christ -) cross Row, for horn-book, on account of the old alphabet and nine digits disposed in the form of a Latin cross.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Are they the same which I used to direct to a horn-book?

Villette 2003

"There are two worlds about us," said Brooks; "the manifest, that is as plain as a horn-book from A to Ampersand; the other, that is in the mind of man, no iota less real, but we are few that venture into it further than the lintel of the door."

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Coventry with a horn-book in his hand, and call it _instruction_!

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

The back-ground is crowded with a procession of active citizens; they have chaired a figure with a horn-book, a bib, and a rattle, intended to represent Child, Lord Castlemain, afterwards Lord Tylney, who, in a violent contest for the county of Essex, opposed Sir Robert Abdy and Mr. Bramston.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

_ The alphabet; so called in consequence of its being formerly preceded in the _horn-book_ by a cross to remind us of the cross of Christ; hence the term.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

The pleasure our little hero took in hearing him made him very much desire to learn to read too; so the next time the good-natured footman gave him a halfpenny, he bought a horn-book with it; and, with a little of his help, Dick soon learned his letters, and afterwards to read.

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

They had spelt life in the horn-book of true and simple nature -- they were now about to read it fluently in the gilded volume of a nature false and vitiated, perhaps to regret their former tranquil ignorance.

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

To attempt to instruct a Peer would be as gross an impertinence to the instinct of his order as to present MINERVA -- who no doubt came from the head of JOVE a Peeress in her own right -- with a toy alphabet or horn-book.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book, and Mr

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907