"Hornless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that it is for this reason that the hornless breed of oxen in that country have no horns growing; and there is a verse of Homer in the Odyssey 34 supporting my opinion, ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus
... is very remarkable as to the sheep: from the westward till you get to the river Adur all the flocks have horns, and smooth white faces, and white legs, and a hornless sheep is rarely to be seen; but as soon as you pass that river eastward, and mount Beeding Hill, all the flocks at once become hornless, or as they call them, poll-sheep; and have, moreover, black faces with ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 • Gilbert White
... an attribute which is met with wherever a Self is, there is no objection to the Self being designated by that attribute. Similarly we observe that special kinds of cows, as e.g. hornless ones, are designated by the term 'cow,' since the quality of possessing the generic character of cows is met with everywhere in connexion with the essential character of such animals with mutilated horns; since in fact that quality contributes to define their essential character. ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut
... are already near the end, I see no harm in taking the longer, which is the way of mesotomy, and accords with the principle which we were laying down. The tame, walking, herding animal, may be divided into two classes—the horned and the hornless, and the king is concerned with the hornless; and these again may be subdivided into animals having or not having cloven feet, or mixing or not mixing the breed; and the king or statesman has the care of animals which have not cloven feet, and which do not mix the breed. And ...
— Statesman • Plato
... 'And that can I, Brother, and truly; since the living words Of so great men as Lancelot and our King Pass not from door to door and out again, But sit within the house. O, when we reached The city, our horses stumbling as they trode On heaps of ruin, hornless unicorns, Cracked basilisks, and splintered cockatrices, And shattered talbots, which had left the stones Raw, that they fell from, brought ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
... individual only because there is so large a proportion of the same traits actively present in the human environment to which he is exposed. Any individual who enters the competitive struggle without the due endowment of these traits is at a disadvantage, somewhat as a hornless steer would find himself at a disadvantage in a drove of ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen
... breeding purposes, and so he perfects one type of horse. With other objects in view, the heavy draught horse, the spirited hackney, and the agile polo pony have been severally bred by exactly the same method. Among cattle many kinds occur, again the products of an artificial or human selection; hornless breeds have been originated, as well as others with wide-spreading or sharply curved horns; the Holstein has been bred for an abundant supply of milk as an object, while Jerseys and Alderneys excel in the rich ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
... some mock battles again—when my horns get long enough," he thought. And then he stopped short. What if the Spike Horns of the year before had no more horns? If they were hornless they certainly wouldn't care to take part in any ...
— The Tale of Nimble Deer - Sleepy-Time Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... both lightly esteemed amongst them; and as the Lama naively remarked, when questioned on the subject, "the Tibetan women are not so different from those of other countries as to wish to conceal what charms they possess."] They are a pastoral race, and Campbell saw a flock of 400 hornless sheep, grazing on short sedges (Carex) and fescue-grass, in the middle of October, at 18,000 feet above the sea. An enormous ram attended the flock, whose long hair hung down to the ground; its back ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... many animals." The small dragon is like the silk caterpillar. The large dragon fills the Heaven and the earth. Before the dragon, sometimes suspended from his neck, is a pearl. This represents the sun. There are azure, scaly, horned, hornless, winged, etc., dragons, which apparently evolve one out of the other: "a horned dragon," for example, "in a thousand years changes to a ...
— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner
... from Kritavarma's armour. Seeing those shafts recoil and scattered on the surface of the Earth, Shikhandi cut off Kritavarma's bow with a keen razor-headed arrow. Filled with wrath he struck the bowless son of Hridika, who then resembled a hornless bull, in the arms and the chest, with eighty arrows. Filled with rage but torn and mangled with shafts, Kritavarma vomited blood through his limbs like a jar disgorging the water with which it is filled. Bathed in ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown
... and son, and maid and mother:— "Ho, ho! saint Leonard's fat lay brother! Why dost thou in the corner peep, And sipple as if half asleep Thou wert with this good nappy ale? Come, rouse thee! for thy sly old tale Of the Miller of Roche and the hornless devil, We'll hear, or we leave our Yule-night revel! Thy folded cloak come cast aside!— Beneath it thou dost thy rebeck hide— It is thy old trick—we know it well— Pledge all! and thy ditty begin to tell!" "Pledge all, pledge all!" the baron ...
— The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme • Thomas Cooper
... farm-yard we will go, Where they milk the hornless cow; Mamma will give us wine and cake, And a syllabub we'll make. Charles and Jane shall hold the bowl, And Margaretta milk it full: Each shall join to help the others, Like good ...
— The Keepsake - or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth • Anonymous |
