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  • A vestment of green and gold covered his shoulders, and on his head he wore a white-horned mitre adorned with golden bells, which added to the majesty of his aspect.

    King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead

  • The night, beyond the kiln and its foreign trees, was loud with the call of white-horned owls, sounding so human sometimes that it sent the heart vaulting and brought us to pause in a flurried cluster on the path that we followed closely as it twisted up the hill.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • The tally was even for both sides until they came to the cattle, when it appeared that Ailill had a huge, white-horned bull with which there was nothing of Meave's to compare.

    X. The Ancient Irish Sagas 1913

  • At last the white-horned bull is slain, and the dun, raging and destroying, goes back to his home, where he too dies.

    X. The Ancient Irish Sagas 1913

  • Pythian Healer, since the Delphic rock made this thine ornament; and this white-horned he-goat shall stain your altar, who nibbles the tip of the terebinth shoot.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • The altar this white-horned goat shall stain with blood, this goat that browses on the tips of the terebinth boughs.

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • Talk to me till the white-horned day comes into the room.

    Intentions Oscar Wilde 1877

  • They were guiding their ploughs along a hedge of olive-trees, slanting upwards, the white-horned oxen moving slowly through the marl, and the lads bending to press the plough-shares home.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • They were guiding their ploughs along a hedge of olive-trees, slanting upwards, the white-horned oxen moving slowly through the marl, and the lads bending to press the plough-shares home.

    New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

  • They were guiding their ploughs along a hedge of olive-trees, slanting upwards, the white-horned oxen moving slowly through the marl, and the lads bending to press the plough-shares home.

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

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