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Hornbook   /hˈɔrnbˌʊk/   Listen
Hornbook

noun
1.
A primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge.





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"Hornbook" Quotes from Famous Books



... night the phosphorescent sea, were of the color of gold, and the stars spoke of Fame. The great mountains also, to the south,—how might the eye leap from height to height and the soul not stir? In Time's hornbook ambition is an early lesson, and these scholars had conned it well. Of all that force, scarce one simple soldier or mariner in whom expectation ran not riot, while the gentlemen adventurers in whose company were to sup De Guardiola ...
— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston
... the circle of maternal duties, and thereby the maternal example, more complete, there are prints of Mary leading her Son to school. I have seen one in which he carries his hornbook in his hand. Such representations, though popular, were condemned by the highest church authorities as nothing less than heretical. The Abbe Mery counts among the artistic errors "which endanger the faith of good Christians," those pictures which represent ...
— Legends of the Madonna • Mrs. Jameson
... understanding, sir," said I in petulant amusement. "I say in jest 'I come, thou comest, he comes,' and the words act on you like abracadabra and the blackest of magic. You don't, I presume, carry a hornbook of French in your case; and if you do, I haven't robbed you ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope


Words linked to "Hornbook" :   primer


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