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Definition of Hornbooks
1. hornbook [n] - See also: hornbook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornbooks
Literary usage of Hornbooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1916)
"we find his widow, Cornelia, even more enterprising, for she advertises in that
year "hornbooks for sale" three times in February, and again in April, May, ..."
2. American Book-lore (1898)
"The literature pertaining to hornbooks is exceedingly limited, ... A year or two
ago Mr. Turner, of London, wrote a monograph on the subject of hornbooks. ..."
3. Chartism by Thomas Carlyle (1840)
"For a choice of inoffensive hornbooks, and Schoolmasters able to teach reading,
he trusted the mere secular sagacity of a National Collective Wisdom, ..."
4. Carlyles' Works by Thomas Carlyle (1884)
"For a choice of inoffensive hornbooks, and Schoolmasters able to teach reading,
he trusted the mere secular sagacity of a National Collective Wisdom, ..."
5. Religious Education in the Public Schools of the State and City of New York by Arthur Jackson Hall (1914)
"The fact that the "Book seller" wishes the people to know that he has something
that will serve as a satisfactory substitute for hornbooks seems good ..."
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