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Art, astrolabes, armor--man-made wonders--were cheek by jowl with monkeys' teeth and pathological anomalies like human horns.
He shared Clarke's obsession with terrorism, and had little hesitation about locking horns with the regional bureaus.
Out in the center of the ring, all alone, Romero was going on with the same thing, getting so close that the bull could see him plainly, offering the body, offering it again a little closer, the bull watching dully, then so close that the bull thought he had him, offering again and finally drawing the charge and then, just before the horns came, giving the bull the red cloth to follow with that little, almost perceptible, jerk that so offended the critical judgment of the Biarritz bull-fight experts.
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.
The dilemma on whose horns you ride is that sometimes "not ready" means just that, and at other times it really does mean "not you."
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