cow-horn

• “They applied their first BD 500 prep (the cow-horn manure tea) to the vineyard the following year.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure?

• “Volunteers have worked on beautiful garnet-and-gold jewellery, a gilt bronze buckle and sword mount strikingly like the Staffordshire hoard which caused world wide excitement last year, amber and glass jewellery, pots and jars, and two cow-horn shaped Frankish drinking glasses buried at either side of their proud owner's head.”

  The Guardian: How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove

• “And old Evensen said he was going to bring a cow-horn, he did.”

  An Enemy of the People

• “The latter, literally meaning a torch, is a polished cow-horn, closed at the thick end with wood, and banded with metal; a wooden stem, projecting from the upper or concave side, bears a neat “chillam””

  Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

• “Resplendent in lily-white uniform, a stethoscope dangling down his chest, a university-trained medical doctor exchanges diagnostic notes with a black-robed traditional healer, clutching a cow-horn tobacco pouch stuffed with brown snuff which he regularly sniffs up his sooty nostrils.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “We are first at the meet, and the old woods ring with the mellow, winding notes of our horns -- no twanging brass reeds in the mouth-pieces, but honest cow-horn bugles, which none but a true hunter can blow.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876

• “And he took a cow-horn and made a bugle of it and blew till the hills rang, to announce his return.”

  Finnish Legends for English Children

• “It is not wholly theatre music: that passage in the bass, galloping up and down the scale against a tremolando accompaniment, is in itself fine music; even Hunding's rough cow-horn makes a musical effect.”

  Richard Wagner

• “One of the M'Lauchlin lads had produced a cow-horn and was blowing it lustily ....”

  Lady Good-for-Nothing

• “For pulling the roots of the upper molars we use the cow-horn forceps," continued the dentist, monotonously.”

  McTeague

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