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He wasn't twenty yards away, close enough to make out every hideous detail of the buffalo-horn headdress, embroidered breech clout, beaded garters wound round his legs above the moccasins, the oiled and muscular limbs.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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I took an old machete, annealed it using a torch, cut it, using saws and a Dremel, filed and ground and sanded it, tempered it, using the same torch and the straw-color-quench-it-in-oil method, polished it, then added faux-ivory scales and a buffalo-horn guard, held on by homemade brass rivets.
Homemade Knife Steve Perry 2007
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The simple wooden buffalo-horn houses of the village were adorned with aerostat antennas, and most families in the village, Ina said, regularly received letters or e-mail from family in Australia, Europe, Canada, the United States.
Spin 2005
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He wasn't twenty yards away, close enough to make out every hideous detail of the buffalo-horn headdress, embroidered breech clout, beaded garters wound round his legs above the moccasins, the oiled and muscular limbs.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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He wasn't twenty yards away, close enough to make out every hideous detail of the buffalo-horn headdress, embroidered breech clout, beaded garters wound round his legs above the moccasins, the oiled and muscular limbs.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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Mami-de-Yong, who was a man of tact as well as humor, smiled at my insinuation, and apologizing like a Christian for the natural tediousness of all old travellers, skipped a degree or two of the wilderness, and at once stuck his buffalo-horn snuff-box into the eastern margin of the sand, to indicate that he was at his journey's end.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Mangal was therefore put to the ordeal and succeeded in breaking the image, so the three brothers split up their _gotra_, the eldest assuming the _gotra_ name of Bhainsa because he had found a buffalo-horn, the second that of Kalkhor, which is stated to mean peacock, and the third that of
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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One brought back a buffalo-horn, another a peacock's feather and the youngest, Mangal, brought plums.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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S.W. Johnson found only from .08 to .15 per cent in buffalo-horn shavings.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Johnson, Professor S. W., on application of superphosphate, 395; on Earl Dundonald, 13; on nitrogen in buffalo-horn shavings, 426; on nitrogen in soils, 123; on solubility of basic slag, 408; value of organic nitrogen to plant, 46.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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