Careful Words

bugle (n.)

bugle (v.)

Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying!

Blow, bugle! answer, echoes! dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Princess. Part iii. Line 352.

Where, where was Roderick then?

One blast upon his bugle horn

Were worth a thousand men.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto vi. Stanza 18.