"horn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In Spain I understand they use the powdered horn of the unicorn to cure this malady, or the crushed shells of a certain insect, though I have never had need of such things myself.
- Each of them must be equipped with the powdered horn, a belt of the hide, and a hoof or two for luck.
- Rhino penises can fetch as much as $700 on the open market, while powdered horn is prescribed for everything from high blood pressure to fevers, nose bleeds and insomnia.
- "Where did you get the powdered horn you blew in my face, daughter of evil but idiotic ifrits?"
- And really, she would have almost paid for the opportunity to see Hafiz's face when he realized what the powdered horn was.
- The trigger appears to be the growing belief in Thailand, Vietnam and China that powdered rhino horn can cure cancer and several other serious diseases; a shift from the previous and equally preposterous belief that powdered horn serves as a reliable aphrodisiac.
- For example, when the Duke of Buckingham was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 5, 1661, he presented the Society with a vial of powdered "unicorn horn".
- He had to sit in bitter idleness as Akko collected the ivory, the feathers, the parti- ally cured leather and the powdered horn of the rhinoceros, so valuable in trade to the east: it enabled old men to marry young girls.
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