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Definition of Hornily
1. in a horny manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornily
Literary usage of Hornily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reynard the Fox by John Masefield (1920)
"He rose and stretched till the claws in his pads Stuck hornily out like long
black gads, He listened a while, and his nose went round To catch the smell of ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Ill, xviii, 1, 2) and St. John Chrysostom (X hornily on St. John, 2) show that
there is no chasm between the early ..."
3. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1892)
"... (Jesus speaks as if he were speaking to one only among the vast host), well
fitted then for use in a hornily, a use to which I have no doubt it was put. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"Men will run after a preacher in a marshy bog out of pure frowardness, when they
will nod at a godly hornily on a well-stuffed bench between four walls. ..."
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