Each was drawn by two bosk, large brown creatures with spreading, polished horns, hung with beads.
But those that come forth through the gate of polished horn bring true issues to pass, when any mortal sees them.
Nanny shaded her eyes and looked out over the mountains, which in the midday light looked like polished horn.
All the buttons on his coat are made of polished horn.
They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns.
Then darker, like translucent polished black horn.
One gate was fashioned of sawn ivory, the other of polished horn.
People who couldn't afford glass often used polished horn, cloth or even paper.
The sunlight caught the bosses of the polished black horns so that they glittered like gunmetal.
The head was huge, topped by polished horns that twisted irregularly.