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horn of Amalthea

noun as in horn of plenty

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Naturally, when the cause for which she sacrificed her life triumphed, she was honoured 165as a martyr, and men said, 'The ram's horn, in killing thee, O Theodosia, appeared to thee a new Horn of Amalthea.'

The girl waved in her uplifted hand a grey tassel, like a bunch of ostrich plumes, and seemed to be protecting with it the heads of the children from the golden rain of the butterflies—in her other hand shone something horn-like and gilded, apparently an instrument for feeding children, for she approached it to each child in turn; it was formed like the golden horn of Amalthea.

He did not forget the instrument: that gilded vessel, that horn of Amalthea, was a carrot!

I remember, too, to have seen a building in Ægina in which there is a statue of Fortune, holding a horn of Amalthea; and near here there is a winged Love.

I remember, too, to have seen a building in �gina in which there is a statue of Fortune, holding a horn of Amalthea; and near her there is a winged Love.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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