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Definition of Hornpipes
1. hornpipe [n] - See also: hornpipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornpipes
Literary usage of Hornpipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama by Walter Scott (1887)
"... funerals and hornpipes seldom match daintily together." The historical plays
led naturally into another class, which may be be called Romantic Dramas, ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"... of the Puritan of his day, 'singing psalms tu hornpipes.* As Puritans are the
same hi all times, the Methodists io our own repealed the foolery, ..."
3. The Crusades by Edward Gibbon, Guillaume Caoursin, Johan Kaye, Walter Scott (1870)
"we mark them well," he concludes, " funerals and hornpipes seldom match daintily
together." The historical plays led naturally into another class, ..."
4. American Journal of Education (1876)
"But I remember, uncle, hearing of Master Jacky being celebrated for the hornpipes
he danced at Christmas: there was an old ..."
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