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Examples
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I do not want my father to wear the cuckold's horns for all to see.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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A manuscript of about 1715, NLS MS Adv. 23.3.24, contains an epitaph mentioning his cuckold's horns:
We're Gayly Yet 1998
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Mack Sennett and Emmett giving each other the cuckold's horns.
White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992
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"What consolation can there be," Chamcha answered with bitter rhetoric, his irony crumbling beneath the weight of his unhappiness, "for a man whose old friend and rescuer is also the nightly lover of his wife, thus encouraging -- as your old books would doubtless affirm -- the growth of cuckold's horns?"
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Why, "continued I, making strange grimaces," one cannot speak it without twisting the mouth into kinks and cuckold's necks without number.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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The "Blackwall Hitch" (Fig. 45) is still simpler and easier to make and merely consists of a loop, or cuckold's neck, with the end of rope passed underneath the standing part and across the hook so that as soon as pressure is exerted the standing part bears on the end and jams it against the hook.
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In _A_ the rope is shown with a bight or cuckold's neck formed with the end over the standing part.
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To make this, run the end of the rope through the ring or eye to which it is being fastened, then back over the standing part and pull a loop, or bight, back through the "cuckold's neck" thus formed (Fig. 33).
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Sigismondo's own grave with the cuckold's horns and scornful epitaph.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Sigismondo's own grave with the cuckold's horns and scornful epitaph.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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