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Little Horn   /lˈɪtəl hɔrn/   Listen
Little Horn

noun
1.
A river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand.  Synonyms: Little Bighorn, Little Bighorn River.






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"Little Horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." This prophecy, which is nearly identical with the description of the little horn of Daniel 7, unquestionably points ...
— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... lost!" the little boy said. "My father went hunting yesterday with all his men and when they were out of sight I took my little horn and followed them, but I soon lost their track, and I have wandered about with nothing to eat. Last night I climbed into ...
— Friendly Fairies • Johnny Gruelle

... trail that Custer and Reno followed, for a ride of several miles to Lookout Hill, or Point, which we ascended. This was the point where Custer and his officers obtained their first view of the valley of the Greasy Grass, as the Sioux call the Little Horn. ...
— My Native Land • James Cox

... into the town and filled its dusky and narrow ways; the boatmen had green branches fastened to their masts; in the stillness of evening one heard the song of crickets, and even a mosquito would come and blow his shrill little trumpet, and one was willing to say to him "Welcome!" because on his little horn he blew the good news, "Summer is here!" Ah, those bright summers of my youth! I am old now—ay, old, though I have lived ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... he had been dead near three months, and was buried not in his convent, but, according to his desire, in a little cemetery belonging to it, about two leagues off; I had a strong desire to see where they had laid him—when upon pulling out his little horn box, as I sat by his grave, and plucking up a nettle or two at the head of it, which had no business to grow there, they all struck together so forcibly upon my affections, that I burst into a flood of tears—but I am as weak as a woman; and I beg the world not to smile but ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume 19 - Travel and Adventure • Various

... second or two he was back—and just in time. Laura knew well the touch of the little horn cup he put into her cold hand. Many and many a time, in the scrambles of their summer walks, had ...
— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward



Words linked to "Little Horn" :   Treasure State, Wyoming, Equality State, river, Montana, mt, WY



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