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Horn in   /hɔrn ɪn/   Listen
Horn in

verb
1.
Search or inquire in a meddlesome way.  Synonyms: intrude, nose, poke, pry.






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"Horn in" Quotes from Famous Books



... forward in her saddle and rested her elbows upon the horn in front of her. Again she heard Baptiste speak. He seemed to be in ...
— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum

... the windless down-streaming summer sunshine, there was that in Reuben's drenched clothes which chilled him to the heart. As he reached the wide-eaved cluster of the farmstead, a horn in the distance blew musically for noon. It was answered by another and another. But no such summons came from the kitchen door to which his feet now turned. The quiet of the Seventh Day seemed to ...
— Earth's Enigmas - A Volume of Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... the Caucasian provinces, is supplied with a considerable number of excellent harbours. In fact, in no other country in the world is there to be found so many good harbours so near to each other; in fine, it is difficult to decide which is the best. The famous port of Sebastopol, and the Golden Horn in the Bosphorus, are inferior as compared with these bays and ports. The land on the borders of the coast is covered with virgin forests, in which are to be found oaktrees of nine feet in diameter. The writer of the letter adds that the sight of this gigantic vegetation filled him ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... debates" preceded his and the sound of these, in Ramsey's ears, was the sound of Gabriel practising on his horn in the early morning of Judgment Day. The members of the society sat, three rows deep, along the walls of the room, leaving a clear oblong of green carpet in the centre, where were two small desks, twenty feet apart, the rostrums of the debaters. Upon a platform at the head of the room ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington

... describes not only the life and training of the boy, but the real Indian as no white man could possibly do. He brings out strongly the red man's wit, music, poetry and eloquence. He also explains graphically from facts gained from his own people, the great mystery of the battle of the Little Big Horn in which the gallant Custer and brave men went to their ...
— Among the Sioux - A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas • R. J. Creswell


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