1 So was the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows.
2 Chopped up, nettles are good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 3 One of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins.
4 Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white.
5 Three of them had their heads broken by blows from Boxer's hoofs; another was gored in the belly by a cow's horn; another had his trousers nearly torn off by Jessie and Bluebell.
6 If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed.
7 He bore, like his companion, a scrip, attached to his belt, but had neither horn nor knife, being probably considered as belonging to a class whom it is esteemed dangerous to intrust with edge-tools.
8 Before this entrance the Templar wound his horn loudly; for the rain, which had long threatened, began now to descend with great violence.
9 He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
10 De Bracy winded his horn three times, and the archers and cross-bow men, who had manned the wall upon seeing their approach, hastened to lower the drawbridge, and admit them.
11 The captives had not long enjoyed their refreshment, however, ere their attention was disturbed even from this most serious occupation by the blast of a horn winded before the gate.
12 They swarmed close up to the walls, headed, as I think, by the knave who won the prize at the archery, for I knew his horn and baldric.
13 When the bustle occasioned by this incident was somewhat composed, the chief Outlaw took from his neck the rich horn and baldric which he had recently gained at the strife of archery near Ashby.
14 And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn.
15 Scathlock obeyed his captain, and in less than five minutes the revellers were startled by the sound of his horn.