| In 1956 my parents bought me a Davy Crockett costume complete with powder horn and coonskin cap. |
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| I jumped when I heard a horn honk behind me and spun around, as a familiar black car pulled up. |
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| The horn fly, Haematobia irritans, is probably the most important economically damaging ectoparasite of grazing cattle. |
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| Turkish flight arrows often had horn tips, thus reducing weight as much as possible. |
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| The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing. |
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| As she was trying to clean up the mess, using a box of tissues, she heard the honking of a horn behind her. |
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| Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch. |
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| The pilot initiated an emergency descent after a warning horn sounded when the plane reached its cruising height of 32,000 ft. |
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| In the third frame, the two clubs combined for four goals before the horn sounded to signal the end of the game. |
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| I hate to toot my own horn but this is a pretty huge paradigm shift for me. |
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| Do not be conceited, he who blows his own horn will find people are quick to get out of his way. |
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| We are not trying to toot our own horn by praising the achievements of Taiwan's agricultural technical teams. |
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| So my boss gets on the horn with one of the producers and insists that they let me meet with our client before he goes on the air. |
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| Before, a smaller black unicorn stood, his wild red eyes glowing madly, and his horn a dull, dull gold, like it was supposed to be. |
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| Instead, the horn rolls freely, producing a favorable countermelody to the lead line introduced by the piano. |
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| Socialist Workers try to horn in on every hot issue and march, but it seems that other groups aren't as bothered by this as they used to be. |
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| A post horn blows outside and a messenger brings a letter from the Duke informing Sancho that enemies are planning to attack the island. |
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| His Las Vegas-style lounge stylings were supported by a crackerjack band featuring a stellar four-piece horn section. |
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| They have much of the equipment of the huntsmen, including a hunting horn and whip to try to confuse the hounds. |
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| The horn I will refer to is primarily that which grows on the heads of cattle or oxen. |
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| Someone mentioned coating the insides of the cream horn with melted white chocolate. |
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| Back in the good old days, this cream horn was a treat to me and my brothers. |
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| Words fail as I attempt to describe this disgusting spew of random horn hits and cloying, overloud singing, but I'll leave it like this. |
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| Unilateral ovariectomy in rabbits doubles the ovulation rate in the remaining ovary and the adjacent uterine horn is crowded with embryos. |
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| We spread out in a ragged line and look for apricot-coloured, trumpet-shaped chantarelles, or stout, meaty ceps, or black, curled horn of plenty. |
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| Both the header and heeler wrap their ropes around the saddle horn as quickly as possible. |
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| Find the center of the dough, put the mold in the middle, and measure where the end of the cream horn mold will be. |
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| The eight-man band, augmented by a three-man guest horn section, packed the stage with equipment and a wealth of musical expertise. |
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| They may be stellate in the anterior horn of the spinal cord or flask-shaped, as in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. |
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| A shelf held a rush burner of coarse iron, next to a candleholder of finely wrought bronze, and another of horn trimmed in sliver. |
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| The cohune nut features prominently in his work but he also uses shell, cow horn and different types of wood. |
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| A great white shark with a narwhal horn and legs seems to be attacking the glass. |
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| The horn section of the RAAF Central Band blow in unison during the first concert of the Tour de Force II Tour. |
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| With the unicorn fish this curved blade appears like a horn of a unicorn pointing forward from the nose. |
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| Not a car horn or police siren could be heard amid the skirl of the pipes of the annual Tartan Day celebrations. |
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| Though the centre is not immune from horn blare and tyre screech, a tranquillity hangs in the air, nurtured by luxuriant greenery and birdsong. |
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| Sadly, one night, some vandals broke into a locked storeroom and dented a French horn and broke the mouthpiece off an antique bassoon. |
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| Adding some of the mellow power of the French horn to it would be a clear gain. |
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| The 17-year-old from York started playing the piano when he was five and the French horn when he was eight. |
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| The first hunting horn sounded shortly before 11 am but was drowned out by a determined campaigner and his loudhailer. |
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| Other types of bronzes from this area include representations of quadripeds and skeuomorphs of horn and gourd palm-wine vessels. |
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| Tuneful trumpeters joined harmonious horn players at Bury Music Centre when they staged annual concert performances. |
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| With a smooth, effortless movement, the killer kicked the master's horn over the edge of the balcony where it spun into the blackness below. |
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| The ventral gray horn is separated from the surface of the spinal cord by the lateral portion of the anterior funiculus. |
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| The stag's horn sumach, with leaves of a fiery orange, is one of the cheapest and most attractive of autumn dazzlers. |
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| The greater horn of the hyoid may be joined to the body of the hyoid by an articulation. |
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| Alan noticed that the engineer did not sound the horn when the train crossed the grade crossing. |
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| The early years Rossini's father was a trumpeter and horn player, his mother a singer. |
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| The identification of this taxon at locality 1 is based upon a highly distinctive tabular horn and diagnostic trunk vertebrae. |
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| The horn was mixed with expensive mithridate, a compound used as an antidote to poison. |
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| Some days later, the sound of a horn was heard from the lone palm tree during a one-minute interval when no vehicle was on the road. |
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| As with the ram's horn grips, these stocks are perfectly fitted and shaped. |
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| When backing up, the horn should be sounded for all city vehicles first and not just rely on a beeper. |
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| This time, because the clock had not been reset to three seconds, a horn blew from the timekeeper's table before the Soviets made the long pass. |
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| Moochin has a decisive Latin American feel, with rich ensembles, intricate horn and rhythm lines and a feisty alto solo from Joel Purnell. |
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| She is playing oboe and English horn in the Academy Concert Band and the West Point Woodwind Quintet. |
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| British composers were especially lucky in their clarinetists, oboists, horn players, and violists. |
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| Amongst the furniture is a large chaise longue, with hugely over-sized ram's horn scrolls. |
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| A few days later, so the story goes, a large growth resembling the stump of an animal's horn sprang from the guilty man's forehead. |
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| A hand yanked him backwards as a car went screaming past him, the driver angrily blaring his horn at him. |
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| But suddenly the scenes of domesticity were interrupted by sound of a war horn as the Viking warriors re-enacted a battle. |
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| The girl with the unicorn horn and the glasses was sitting up in bed, reading a doorstopper of a book. |
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| Seemingly, the Soviets took the ball out, threw a futile long pass downcourt and the horn sounded ending the game. |
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| The bill is a pinkish horn color and dark markings appear on the upper mandible. |
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| Buffalo has a legacy of dreams gone sour, and even today, surrounded by the horn of American plenty, we are still very much the rust belt. |
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| It was nearly identical to Pegasus, save that it was wingless and had a short argent horn pointing up from its forehead. |
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| A large light-blue horn stood out of the middle of his forehead, and it was shaped like a rhinoceros' horn. |
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| Motorists could also draw attention to themselves by flashing their lights or sounding their horn to make people aware they are in difficulty. |
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| We have had cars flash their lights and in the case of one van driver, sound his horn just because we were keeping within the speed limit. |
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| The leader is a pianist and horn men Greg Gisbert and Brad Goode are among the soloists. |
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| I continued to fight the temper-tantrum urge and resisted honking my horn or hopping out of the car to throw rocks at the train. |
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| If you were to uncoil a French horn and lay it out to its full length, it would be over six miles long. |
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| He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated. |
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| The ensuing horn blast was loud enough to stun even the Elves, who immediately clapped their hands over their ears and writhed in discomfort. |
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| America's riches are pulling people all along the continent's Hispanic horn on a great migration to the place they call El Norte. |
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| The huntsman's horn sounded the final knell when the last traditional hunt by the Tedworth came to en end. |
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| The tail occupies a position in the roof of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle. |
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| When we got round the horn my boys, we had some glorious days. And very soon our killick dropped in Valparaiso bay. |
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| The 3-4 age group took off at the sound of the air horn to collect the eggs in their division. |
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| The phrases noted above are like blasts from an air horn or plastic trumpet, blaring technical correctness. |
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| This combat goes on for a few curious minutes before an air horn signals a change in the drill rotation. |
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| Michael's headlong flight meant he and Kieran were going to clip off the vanguard of the right horn of the crescent. |
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| The air horn sounds a blast that can be heard over the roar of aircraft engines. |
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| Half of the left uterine horn was fixed in Bouin's fixative, and processed routinely for immunohistochemistry. |
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| He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago. |
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| Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium. |
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| Flat, thin leaves of horn were translucent and used for windowpanes in place of glass. |
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| Based on these measurements, the horn capsule of the claw is a composite of horn produced over the past 12 to 15 months. |
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| He hustled to the last, though, and shot an air ball, missing basket, board and all, as the horn sounded. |
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| The reference to horn and ivory show that composite bows were known, and the inclusion of yew shows they knew of this best of bow timbers. |
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| The horn characters seem sufficiently different to separate these species generically. |
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| The name comes from the use of a horn bell to project the sound and often a horn reed cap as well. |
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| We do have things like rhino horn occasionally, and tiger fur, not on a huge scale, but it still happens. |
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| They hold the moment for a little longer, not noticing the light turning green until a horn sounds from behind. |
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| By the way, as the air bag fills the hub of the steering wheel, becoming familiar with the location of the horn buttons takes some time. |
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| Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going. |
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| It seems the Chinese believe that this rhino's horn cures everything from lumbago to laryngitis, and they will pay anything to get it. |
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| In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas. |
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| Any effects of rhino horn are almost certainly placebo effects, of which scarcity, improbability, and high cost play a part. |
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| We had just completed a night safari, coming nose to horn with a rhino who proceeded to chase the jeep. |
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| Passengers aboard the packed train said about five miles outside Newbridge, the train driver began to blow his horn loudly and then braked hard. |
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| Just like the standard horn in F, the Wagner tuba is written a fifth higher than sounding. |
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| She's a brilliant English horn and oboe player, and she can also handle the piano keyboard. |
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| Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas. |
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| A separate libation may be given to the gods, or some of the contents of the horn may be poured out as an offering to them. |
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| In 1991 the diaphone fog signal was changed to an electric horn retaining the same character. |
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| She had a golden horn coming from her head with a sapphire jewel on her forehead. |
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| A good solid hip-hop track, but with an oddly mixed horn hook that lacks the punchiness found in his normal formula. |
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| I'm always a sucker for a good horn section, so the trombone, trumpet and sax were a welcome sight and sound. |
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| He's certainly not shy about tooting his own horn in regard to some of the decisions that were made concerning the script and location shooting. |
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| During the summer months, she plays co-principal horn and is a featured soloist with the Capitol City Band. |
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| Grip the horn and tip it toward your greedy mouth, drinking of the filth, corruption and frothy, unintentional comedy contained within. |
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| Rhino horn was never used in traditional Chinese culture to treat impotency. |
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| Joseph woke to the sound of a horn bellowing a wake-up call in the distance. |
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| A man playing his horn hid behind a wall, and quickly snapped up the change I tossed in his case. |
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| Tom gave them a couple beeps of the horn as we went past, an acknowledgement of the comradery. |
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| Hounds were fed horseflesh and collected on hunt days with the sound of a horn in the street. |
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| However, most horn fly populations in Nebraska are resistant to pyrethroid insecticides. |
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| Ankole cattle, from the great lakes region of East Africa, are also bred for horn shape and size. |
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| So she took up the euphonium, a smaller horn that is a member of the tuba family. |
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| Medieval explorers, coming across the rhinoceros, described it as a fierce animal like a big horse with a single horn on its nose. |
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| He plays the piano and French horn and teaches music to help pay his way through uni. |
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| Extended instrumental introductions and occasional solos for guitar, horn and trumpet add tasteful variety to the program. |
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| He fell to the ground, the large rhino horn protruding from his chest while black, sticky blood pooled around him. |
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| The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music. |
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| The artifacts include hundreds of stone tools and flakes, as well as spear foreshafts made of rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk. |
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| Flames and flying embers surrounded us and I was beeping the horn and had the headlights and the hazard flashers on. |
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| He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips. |
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| Lester has already received my billing, so I'll just start tooting Mike Megrew's horn instead. |
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| The larger end of the powder horn is fitted with a wooden top and the narrow end with a stopper. |
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| The horn would sound like a miniature foghorn that had caught a bad cold. |
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| Another omen claims that if the first crescent of the new Moon appears with its lower horn obscured, stormy weather is indicated in the first phase of the Moon. |
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| However, the French horn that is used today was completed in France. |
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| The horrendous accident cruelly cut short the career of an incomparable artist, who was already famous as one of the greatest horn players of all time. |
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| He spent his formative years working in D.C. go-go, and his compositions have that loose-limbed swagger, relying heavily on sampled horn screams and weeping electric pianos. |
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| As he passed his Uncle Al's house, he honked his horn in greeting. |
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| The direction and magnitude of deviations of the guidewire from the anatomic center of the posterior horn were determined after disarticulating the knees. |
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| These bizarre screeching sounds turn into horn samples, which, though they never quite resolve themselves, manage to work up an atmosphere of a nauseated euphony. |
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| In an attempt to stimulate resonance in a cavity that is bescreened, the right vane was replaced with a horn and driver on the floor and aimed at the vane. |
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| A horn of plenty that’s half-metropolis, half-amusement park, where excess is an edict, from bottomless booze bongs to endless buffets, it is our crapulent capital of abundance. |
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| The current strategy of persisting with the trade ban on rhino horn is clearly failing. |
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| They now must sound the horn a quarter-mile from a crossing, which for a slow-moving train can be much longer than 20 seconds. |
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| The radio waves let you sound the horn and lock and unlock the car from around corners or in crowded parking lots. |
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| If one of us saw anything they had to signal it to the captain, for his part he would sound the horn to point things out. |
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| He has been active as a private teacher in addition to being instructor of French horn at Wilfrid Laurier University. |
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| This CB supplies power to the warning horn and the HORN caution light through the warning horn printed circuit board and the warning horn switch. |
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| The horn stops and the amber caution light extinguishes when rotor rpm is increased to safe limits or the collective control is full down. |
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| When the collective lever is full down, the low rotor horn and caution light are disabled. |
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| Frank Stella, who was 65 on Saturday, did not seem to feel any pressure to blow the horn for his new work. |
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| So we'd arrive in these places, and she'd just get on the horn and start calling around. |
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| At this time, the low rotor rpm horn sounded, and the cyclic and collective controls began to move erratically. |
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| If the alarm is triggered, either the car horn or the siren available as an optional extra sounds for 30 seconds, and the hazard lights flash. |
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| The SOS Post-Crash Alert System1 activates the hazard lights and horn to call attention to your vehicle in certain collisions. |
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| The second movement was beautifully rendered, with a lovely English horn solo from Gundel Jannemann-Fischer. |
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| It begins with a murmur in soft strings, from which a pensive trumpet call emerges, along with a horn theme. |
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| The horn should be sounded whenever it is necessary to ensure safe operation of a vehicle or to give warning of the approach of a vehicle. |
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| Females possess 3 very small annulated horns, with the central horn on the nose being somewhat larger. |
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| At their head stood Chief Hargougha with the horn raised to his mouth. |
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| Amateur and professional horn blowers are in the same musical number, side by side. |
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| It was imperative that all ritual was accompanied by the correct type of bull according to its colour, markings and horn shape to ensure the efficacy of the ritual. |
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| On his belt he carries several knives, and a ram's horn for blowing. |
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| Is it the rhinoceros with its aphrodisiac horn and herbivorous browsing? |
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| Without their commanding horn the rhinoceros present a forlorn image. |
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| The Reserve has a similar program with rhinoceros where a microchip is implanted in the animal's horn both for identification purposes and to deter poaching. |
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| He wants to tell a joke that only horn players will really appreciate. |
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| It was easy for Buddy to copy the horn riffs on the songs on his guitar. |
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| Guitarist McGarvey sways backwards and forwards on his wah-wah pedal as the nine-piece band with full horn section segues seamlessly from Shaft to Bullitt. |
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| I had tooted my horn to warn a cyclist that I was behind him. |
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| Cameron stepped on the gas harder, honked the horn to warn a group of teenagers who were considering stepping onto the road right in front of him. |
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| We were in the middle of kissing when a car horn blasted behind us. |
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| Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this. |
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| The Mirror recently got on the horn with McFarlane at his L.A. office. |
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| The great popularity of rhino horn has helped drastically reduce the world's pachyderm populations. |
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| He is hesitant to sound his own horn but modestly points out that his team was in tiptop shape. |
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| Is it some fly in chase sounding the horn around those ears deaf to the fanfare of the halloos? |
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| If a cup horn is used, make sure that the water has been drained out of it. |
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| To thread the bearing on the painful toe by making sure that the pastille of freezing covers the horn or the significant zone. |
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| The alphorn they developed can be entirely dismantled, and the individual sections of the horn can be telescoped into one another for transport. |
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| Created around 1900, this Dene powder horn is made from cow horn with a wooden stopper. |
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| With respect to train horn audibility and related limitations, Transport Canada is discussing this issue with the railway industry. |
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| The stoplight system used to communicate with the truck driver replaces the loud horn when working at night. |
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| It is the flipside of the first song, heard through the melodic lines and pentatonic horn calls. |
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| Two plain bands flanked by arabesque tendrils mark the places where the shoulder straps used for carrying the horn were attached. |
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| But social networking and new models for supporting creativity have turned the web into a modern horn of plenty. |
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| Though not a huge establishment, Cosmos is a horn of plenty that extends well beyond starchy staples. |
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| At another point, the artist drew a blue horn of plenty with yellow stars and fire coming out of it. |
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| The stick consists of two plates in moulded horn superbly decorated with various reasons for foliage and horn of plenty. |
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| According to MEPs, taxpayers have a horn of plenty with money to throw into agricultural policy and rural development. |
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| Above the architrave are two lovely cupids with doves on the left and floral horn of plenty on the right. |
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| Inspired by kinetic art, this new logo seemed to be in constant movement and had overtones of a horn of plenty. |
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| The horn of plenty can also serve to realize friendly tarts and forest pies. |
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| The most common motifs are: The love motifs: doves, horn of plenty, quiver with bow and arrow, arrow pierced heart. |
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| Designed in 2007, Tyrol is a modern and inspiring version of the antique horn of plenty. |
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| The locomotive engineer sounded the horn and initiated an emergency brake application. |
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| Accompany Cochem's night watchman as he makes his evening rounds through the old town of Cochem with his lantern, horn and halberd. |
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| Wrist flexion allows palpation of the head of the capitate and the posterior horn of the lunate. |
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| On the winding pass roads, the post horn of these comfortable coaches sounds its distinctive three-note call before every narrow switchback. |
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| Bezoar stones were found in the intestines of some ruminant animals, especially oriental goats, and like unicorn horn were thought to be an antidote to poison. |
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| In his haste to flee, he had dropped his owlish horn rims, his wallet, and false teeth. |
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| At the time of reproduction, Puffins and Penguins get at the basis of their bill and on commissures horn elements, vividly coloured for Puffins. |
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| It's the earliest known example of a tall, upright nose horn in the horned dinosaur family. |
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| The stall warning horn in C-GEJE did not activate either prior to or during the stall. |
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| The alarm horn in this smoke detector meets or exceeds current Underwriter's Laboratories standards. |
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| Undeterred even by the raspy honking of the horn of a battered bus as it tries to wend its way through the general commotion. |
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| As a result of the pulsing current the horn will not sound clear, but more like croaking. |
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| He sometimes literally fell asleep with his horn in his hands, and his knowledge of harmony, scales and modes was encyclopedic. |
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| For example, honk the horn on a Hummer and you'll be using a polyurethane part produced by State Industries. |
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| Besides signaling automatically the count of the chronometer run out, the horn can also be manually controlled. |
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| I ordered holsters to hang straight so they could be worn butts to the front or to the rear and I also wanted a deep dark brown color to match the buffalo horn grips. |
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| The hunting horn or bugle has been carved from an ivory tusk and is nearly entirely covered in decorative work. |
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| Breeding adults have a laterally flattened horn on the upper mandible. |
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| Trigger guard made of dark polished horn with brass inlay, three iron barrel fixings and ramrod tube, wooden ramrod with brass top. |
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| The rhinoceros is quite funny with its horn it carries like a trombone and it seems to play with a muffler. |
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| Journals are just like any other business: they want to publish the best and will toot their horn if they publish important stuff. |
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| On the contrary, they have spent tens of millions of dollars to toot their own horn for no apparent reason. |
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| Its horn blared ceaselessly, jammed by the dead body of the driver, Henri Paul, pinioned on the steering column by the impact. |
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| Which was just as well because I was woken at dawn each day by a horn blast nearby. |
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| Archie Young, a 20-year-old actor, was among those who cheered as a lorry driver parped his horn and gave a big thumbs-up to the crowd. |
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| The large horn antenna compared to the smaller version offer higher gain and directivity. |
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| The horn is not necessarily a reliable means of prevention, since its effectiveness depends on how the person reacts. |
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| If either door is ajar the lamps will not flash and the horn will chirp twice. |
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| The train horn was mounted on the top of the locomotive body, midway between the front and rear of the locomotive. |
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| The tone of the horn is very warm and sounds like it is being played far off in the distance. |
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| Because Mozart wrote for the basset horn in some 20 works, makers kept it available, and it was also used by Beethoven, Spohr, Mendelssohn, and Richard Strauss. |
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| In this rondo, the horn must often play with the elfin lightness and agility of strings and woodwinds. |
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| But in real life Harris is shy and humble, reluctant to give away details about his love life or toot his own horn in any way. |
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| His pink, shell-like horn strikes the glass with an audible thump. |
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| A servant came flying out with a horn of mulled wine wrapped in a cloth and passed it to him with nervous hands, careful not to look at him before he dashed away. |
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| The Blind Faith of the one-eyed MatadorKaren Russell, GQ Last fall, one of Spain's greatest matadors took a horn to the face. |
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| If this is so it is quite possible they are mercenary bowmen from eastern Europe, and these archers are known to have used horn and sinew shortbows. |
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| The principal ganglionic neurons receive the synaptic output of the preganglionic motor fibers in the splanchnic nerves, which originate in the anterior horn cells. |
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| As Pepper tells the tale, he hasn't touched his horn in six months, the mouthpiece has rotted away, and he has to patch it together with sticky tape. |
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| On the steel buttplate, Welch engraved a big horn sheep and a mountain goat and surrounding these two fine animals, he added his exquisite scroll along with gold line inlay. |
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| Remote door locks should be configured so that the horn is off by default. |
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| A horn caught her attention, and she snapped her head up to see she was still in motion, in the middle of an intersection, with a city dump truck headed towards her. |
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| Whether it's weaving in opaque, double-meaning lyrics or sneaking a horn part way deep in the mix, the compositions on Twin Cinema are immediate yet multi-layered. |
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| His wife, Rita, would wait and pray until she would hear the bicycle squeeze horn he had affixed to the chair. |
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| A car parked at a red light honked its horn in rhythm with the chant as the crowd passed in front of it. |
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| The horns of cows and sheep grow over a bony core that resembles the horn in shape, so anything with a slightly twisted cone of rough-surfaced bone is unlikely to be human. |
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| The Rhino's horn is not a true horn, but consists of compressed hair, and the animal prefers to defend itself with its canine teeth with which it can make horrible gashes. |
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| This netsuke of a seated deer howling at the moon stands 9.7 cm in height, and was carved in the Edo period from ivory with dark horn inlaid for eyes. |
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| The soldier blinked repeatedly and then raised his horn to his lips. |
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| But rounding the horn and coming back up the peninsula was another story. |
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| Suddenly, the sharp call of a faraway horn caught the trio's attention. |
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| Would you believe the switch was actuated by lifting up the horn button! |
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| With insufficient juvenile hormone, horn growth never starts. |
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| Shaped by the fastidious Harnoncourt, the central andante movement opens with a horn theme that whispers an affinity to the Largo from the New World symphony. |
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| The most glaring difference is that crisco, rather than a horn of oil wielded by the Prophet Samuel, was used in the ceremony. |
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| With the gear warning horn blaring and the prop windmilling, we continued gliding toward the airport with the stall warning horn intermittently chiming in. |
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| The air was cool and each sound of a train air horn excited me. |
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| I get so excited at the sound of that air horn so far off down the tracks. |
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| He scrambled to find an air pocket and tried to keep calm as he prayed someone would rescue him as his car horn blared non-stop after being short-circuited by the water. |
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| No one may blow the annoying plastic horn within the Emirates if it exceeds 100 decibels anymore. |
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| The team has unearthed stone tools, animal bones showing signs of butchering and cooking, and spear shafts made from woolly rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk. |
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| The spiral worm shell is also considered to be a horn shell. |
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| Fibers of the optic and auditory radiations are interposed between the lentiform nucleus above and the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle below. |
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| A separate libation may be given to the gods, landwights or housewights, or some of the contents of the horn may be poured out as an offering to them. |
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| We shuffled back and forth in the tracks for a few minutes, trying to stay limber, until the Norwegian ambassador to Canada sounded the ceremonial horn and we took off. |
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| Led by a Connecticut dentist, a research team says it has unraveled some of the mysteries surrounding the spiral horn grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal. |
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| Sitting astride the bay gelding, his gun resting on the high horn of the saddle, Buck's eyes gleamed at the thought of partly avenging his father's death. |
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| Or watch and listen while a horn player explains how the horn parts work together and separately in a particular passage. |
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| Borrowing a powder horn from Balen, he pops open the top and cautiously reloads the weapon, taking care despite his inebriation to keep the powder away from the burning fuse. |
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| Next to the left side entrance, embedded into the wall is the narrow end of a Roman votive altar decorated with a horn of plenty with pine cones, fruit and flowers. |
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| With the flaps at the approach position and the gear not down, the warning horn sounds when a thrust lever is retarded below about 70 per cent N1, but the horn can be silenced. |
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| Sound the horn on the lighthouse by passing through the tunnel. |
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| However, if the person is close to the train, as in this occurrence, the locomotive engineer can immediately sound the horn and apply the emergency brakes. |
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| Trains are limited to 100mph here – 10mph slower than Norwich in 90 plans demand – with the only concession to those crossing being a whistleboard, a W sign that instructs the driver to sound the horn to alert pedestrians. |
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| The arrest plan calls for an agent to announce their presence and purpose on a bull horn and to demand the subject's surrender. |
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| Avoid wearing headphones because the music could distract you from noises around you, such as a car blowing its horn so you can get out of the way. |
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| The Ray240E allows you to connect an optional hailer horn that transforms the Ray240E into a hailer foghorn combination with programmable auto fog alert. |
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| So with a cautious motion, he presses the horn which rings like a foghorn. |
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| But why let facts horn in on our nostalgia? |
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| He tooted his horn in greeting, as was customary. |
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| He played trumpet and French horn in the marching band instead. |
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| Could Stanley's beast have a single horn in the middle of its forehead? |
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| When an angle of attack approaches that of an imminent stall, the vane changes position, and the sensor unit produces a signal which activates the stall warning horn in the cockpit. |
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| During the brief flight, the floatplane's height above the water did not exceed 50 feet, and the stall warning horn in the cockpit sounded intermittently. |
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| Smeary and foul-smelling areas in the horn disappear within a short time. |
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| The joyful soaring sound of the trumpet, the rich euphony of the French horn and the grand tones of the trombone and tuba give the brass family a majestic, commanding sound. |
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| MaxMara, for instance, whose models less walked a catwalk than a gangplank, in front of a rear projection of bobbing water behind portholes, to a soundtrack of gruff, horn piping sea shanties. |
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| On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Rhaetian Railway, the «uncool» Festival is featuring the four horn players, who accompanied Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey to Kazakhstan. |
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| A French horn player in white tie wanders the stage. |
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| The horn allows you to attract attention in difficult situations. |
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| It is seen commonly in connection with flat-foot, and where the horn of the wall is thin and shelly. |
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| She mentors incoming freshmen as a Senior Buddy and plays and tutors French horn and mellophone, playing in youth orchestra and Marching Band. |
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| These boxes offer a low register powerful and very precis, half-compartment with 500Hz they are the ideal complement of our 1 inch horn with 1 inch driver. |
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| Epidemiological studies from France and California reveal that the most significant risk factor for heel horn erosion and papillomatous digital dermatitis respectively, is unhygienic conditions. |
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| Blood feud mitres silver lmouflon and horn of ram 23 cm. |
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| The exterior hoof wall and horn of the sole is made of keratin, the same material as a human fingernail. |
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| Many cab steering wheels are marked with shiny depressions, where the drivers ceaselessly tap the horn in staccato bursts to warn off errant okada or simply to greet other motorists. |
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| Tooting your own horn is one of the unspoken cardinal sins of activism. |
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| One teaspoonful contains 150mg of deer horn extract. |
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| According to the SOPs, stall recovery must be initiated as soon as the stall warning horn sounds or as soon as buffeting is felt, whichever comes first. |
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| Running the country, of course, ought not to be merely a self-improving challenge for jaded Bullingdon plutocrats, like learning the French horn from scratch in a week, unicycling, or becoming a pierrot. |
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| Sigurd asks for her name, and the woman gives Sigurd a horn of mead to help him retain her words in his memory. |
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| At the top this horn spreads out like the palm of a hand or the branches of a tree. |
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| In the middle of its forehead a single horn grows between its ears, taller and straighter than the animal horns with which we are familiar. |
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| The Turks, who produced the most beautiful weapons, left the polished horn belly exposed, while the Persians and the men of India covered the whole bow with rawhide, birch bark or thin layers of shark skin. |
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| Growing on one of the large horn beam trees in the garden are several large clumps of mistletoe. |
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| The moulded and worked grips seem to be in horn or gutta-percha about it. |
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