How To Use Thorn In A Sentence

I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
He said residents of Thornhill had expressly asked for greater visibility of police on their estate.
During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
Half way down there is a scrog of wood, dwarf alders and hawthorn, which makes an arch over the path. Prester John
Men don't care how they look," said Thorny, squirming out of her hold, for he hated to be "cuddled" before people. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated

And there is an even thornier problem: america's logging regulations are notoriously lax. Times, Sunday Times
Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi. NYT > Home Page
The hawthorn-orange-milk sugar uses fresh and orange skin for the main sauce on the basic traditional milk sugar, meanwhile, it is the new sugar products to strengthen dietary fiber.
The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
It's just a noise that might attract some birds, particularly things like wrens and thornbills, and saffron whitefaces which we've just seen.
Probably a weed from the broad leaf with the thornlike tips. Wellspring of Chaos
Mr. Zhang's motto is:"making lawyers' coronet of honor with thorns".
The boat lurched 370 and Thorn thumped a shinbone against the glass coffee table and almost went down. BLACKWATER SOUND
Many herbalists prescribe hawthorne as a cardiotonic to keep healthy hearts healthy. Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible
I met wi 'twa dink quines in particular, ane o' them a sonsie, fine, fodgel lass, baith braw and bonnie; the tither was clean-shankit, straught, tight, weelfar'd winch, as blythe's a lintwhite on a flowerie thorn, and as sweet and modest's a new-blawn plumrose in a hazle shaw. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Objective:To investigate the enhancing effect of some non-ionic surfactants on intestinal absorption of the main active components vitexin-2"-O- rhamnoside in Hawthorn Leaf total flavonoids.
ICE hasn't listed any native Filipino on its "gangbanger" watchlist or detention cells in the past few years, although insignificant remnants of Pinoy street gangs like Akrho and Bahala Na Gang sporadically surface in known Filipino communities here and in Carson, Glendale, Eagle Rock, San Fernando Valley, Rowland Heights, West Covina and Hawthorne. Undefined
the thorny question of states' rights
The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
Fuller became a thorn in the government's side on many other issues, particularly the great questions of royal finance, purveyance and impositions.
Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
Looked as much like a giant thornback as anything I ever saw," remarked The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
In the first development of its kind, the old Roundthorn Court in Wythenshawe has been gutted and revamped to provide 64 one-bedroomed apartments and eight studios.
She'd found some hawthorn berries on a bush and was chewing her way through one with every sign of enjoyment.
Thornbury has announced a takeover bid of a regional TV company.
Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
Mr Winter said: ‘If the project comes to fruition it will be a marvellous regenerator for the community and a wonderful opportunity for the young people of Thorne.’
Plant prickly hedges such as pyracantha, holly or hawthorn to deter thieves and add sturdy trellis to fence panels to make fences more difficult to climb over. IcNewcastle
The owner, Gerald Thornton, was as much of a relic as the rare and ancient coins in which he specialized. CHAMELEON
The Thornhill Arms was one of the first pubs in Huddersfield are to provide catering at the time.
A Cook County Forest Preserve District representative last week said brush pile fires, set to dispose of chopped trees and buckthorn, and prescribed burns pose no threat to the public.
Thorndike is important as an early figure in the effort to establish a scientific knowledge base for the research of human learning, especially for instructional technology.
I was laith to make awa wi 'the old dowg, his like wasne atween this and Thornhill -- but, The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories
We stopped by the thick boxthorn and Mum and Dad said, ‘We'll have lunch and then we'll go to the beach’.
This is a defense posture they use in the wild, as they are heavily armored from top to sides with sharp thornlike scales.
The second, mens rea, is one of the thorniest ? Times, Sunday Times
The hedges bowed to the earth under their weight of hawthorn blossom. Times, Sunday Times
I shall never see the word hawthorn in poetry again without the image of the snowy but far from chilling canopy rising before me. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Watermark: [posthorn in crowned shield (upper portion)]. Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Robinson (15 April 1796
Huw Thornton: without being condescending, I'd like to applaud your clearsighted enunciation of the current problem: what is the solution? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
This our Peeress declined as unnecessary , alleging that her cousin Thornhill 's recommendation would be sufficient.
Pulling off my dirty pinny and revealing my clean black uniform underneath I hurried out of the house and around to the back door of the Thornton's house.
I'm sometimes asked if I'd be frightened of walking through a jungle and being spiked by a thorn.
Industry leaders met in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a seminar on the thorny problem of downloadable music.
Lizards with bright blue tails scuttled out of our way, taking cover among the thorn bushes and cactus that were the only greenery.
Using a damp cloth, I carefully sponged the days-old sweat from her body while Blood Thorn sat to one side, a beautifully carved trencher in his lap, spooning food to her by the bite. Fire The Sky
The bearer of the lanthorn was his young enemy -- the boy. Cutlass and Cudgel
These are also the most thorny and fundamental issues affecting Taiwan's management of cross-strait trade and economic relations over the past decade.
Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle, like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all ‘come out,’ so to speak, in blossom. Swann's Way
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Helena studies a deeply crimsoned rose, almost unnaturally so, and takes a long, wary look at the protruding thorns. The Iron Maiden « A Fly in Amber
The insect called the lanthorn-fly, which is peculiar to warm climates, emits light as it flies, producing in the dark a remarkably sparkling appearance. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
Alice Hawthorne sold ice cream cones and root beer floats to the people of Albany, Ga.
So saying, the Robin flew from the thorn-tree to another part of the grounds, where he could amuse himself without interruption; and the Tortoise began to hustle under the leaves and rubbish again, with a view to taking his nap. Parables From Nature
Ahmad Kamakim and say, ‘O Prince of True Believers, order him to be searched and I will bring the lanthorn forth from his bosom.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Scritch, scratch, scramble, through the thorny bushes!
She took out her violin case and the ream of papers that was to be her and Brian's performance for John Cawthorne's little concert.
Their hosts include weaverbirds and sunbirds in Africa and Asia, as well as fairy wrens and thornbills in Australia.
Sodium bisulphate is currently the best choice to poison crown-of-thorns with, since it eventually breaks down in seawater. Crown-of-thorn sea star
Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks.
In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them.
They take in the Thornton & Allerton, and Clayton & Fairweather Green wards, both Tory strongholds in local elections.
Blood Thorn—with his pom hairstyle, his Uzachile-cut breechcloth, and his curious star tattoos—was a constant source of attention. Fire The Sky
Dr. Scoville, though he still kept his word and maintained his position with regard to the prisoners, continually "thorned" the captain with a prospect of the gallows, which he declared was his certain doom. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer
High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
Like a sea the waste stretched out before her, ending only as the jags rose to breathtaking heights to become the rigid range of mountains called the Crown of Thorns.
The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating.
Based on Lawrence Thornton's novel, Hampton strives for a part human, part mystical response to a brutal regime, bent on repression.
Spelthorne Borough Council is having to dig deep into its coffers to help finance a county-wide concessionary bus scheme, after Surrey County Council withdrew its support.
Within three days Reverend Thorn approached one of the most gracious villages ever to have developed in America: the tree-lined, white-clapboarded, well-gabled village of Walpole, near the Connecticut River in southwestern New Hampshire. Hawaii
Mr Thornhill said: We feel very strongly that short term custodial sentences must be available and available for those who continue to offend, particularly violent offences. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of "Our Village," which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and green fields, for which I am grateful to them. Records of a Girlhood
The task was difficult, as the sprigs were barbed with large thorns, and the fragrant resin stuck to their fingers as they broke the sprigs from the angular branch.
Blount starred with Arkansas native Billy Bob Thornton in the drama "Chrystal," McKinnon's 2004 feature film directing debut for which Blount also was a producer. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Tom Hawthorne was at the Social Security office picking up paperwork for a disabled associate when the bomb exploded.
That leads to the thorniest issue of all: artist royalty rates. Times, Sunday Times
But they are also thorny like a bramble, not bristly like a wineberry. Times, Sunday Times
Look for a formula containing gentle, nonirritating herbs like alder buckthorn, okra, triphala and aloe, and the mineral magnesium hydroxide that will soothe the bowel, stimulate peristalsis, and help eliminate mucus from the bowel. The Fiber35 Diet
There is no situation, however thorny, which is not saved by politeness. The Ancient Regime
The attorney's horn lies horizontally in the thorns.
Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows.
It resembles our little boreen, down to hedgerows of flowering whitethorn and grass growing in the middle of the road. Out of Ireland (3)
But having broached the thorny issue of using government entities to boost housing, the Fed didn't touch on questions surrounding a needed long-term revamp of housing finance. Fed Up With the Depressed State of Housing
The violets, the marigold, the cannas; they were all gone in favor of the thorned monstrosities.
M. Naudin states, that a certain kind of furze or thistle, of which cattle are very fond, may be made to grow without thorns -- an important consideration, seeing that at present, before it can be used as food, it has to undergo a laborious beating, to crush and break the prickles with which it is covered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852
but then the possessiveness and competition, ingrained in us from early childhood, from preschool even, is like a thorn in our side which pricks every time a foreigner is seen.
The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken. Menhardoc
Its sides were wild, abrupt, and precipitous, and partially covered with copse-wood, as was the little brawling stream which ran through it, and of which the eye of the spectator could only catch occasional glimpses from among the hazel, dogberry, and white thorn, with which it was here and there covered. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress.
The day was warm, the air sweet with the scent of scythed grass and chopped blackthorn.
The roses were carved to such lifelike details; the thorns seemed as if they could draw blood.
Hawthorne as a soft-marrowed dweller in the dusk, fostering his own shyness and fearing to take the rubs of common men, pray look well at all this. A Study of Hawthorne
It was basically underbrush - small bushes, thickets, plants with long branches and thorns.
In his head, he made a catalog of what the tea would need - blackcurrant, chamomile, heather, hawthorn, lemon balm, motherwort, marjoram, passion flower, and St John's wort.
Patty chose to explore several of Jordan's seafood offerings on our last visit: Blue Lantern Bay Scallops $18, the small bay mollusks set against braised radishes, beurre blanc, fish sauce, sea buckthorn, and - yes, nasturtium! Jay Weston: Good Evening Vietnam: Red Medicine Is Here
Egyptian thorn Gabra: burquqe, burq'uq'e Giriama: msemeri, munga, muhegakululu Ilchamus: lkiloriti, lkilorit Kamba: kisemei Chapter 7
Having artfully solved a thorny problem a week ago, the government has now embraced a deal whose terms reek of the bailout it was at such pains to avoid. The Real Cost
Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
Originally, it opened with the three Bone cousins, Fone, Phoney, and Smiley Bone, lost in the desert after being run out of Boneville; the new version begins with a lengthy, dull cutscene in which Thorn gives a narration of Bone's cosmogony from the text of Crown of Horns. Archive 2007-05-01
Everywhere, black, thorned leaves stormed down on the citizenry, piercing their flesh or leaving long, vicious cuts. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
Common petiole with two thorns united at its base and a small glandule on the upper part. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
George S. Hillard, a most faithful and serviceable friend, -- not only to Hawthorne during his life, but afterwards as a trustee for his family, and equally kind and helpful to them in their bereavement, which is more than could be said of all his friends, -- especially of The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
But now the vast Paraguayan wilderness of thorn trees, jaguars and snakes known as the Chaco is being transformed by a Christian fundamentalist sect and hundreds of Brazilian ranchers.
Hawthorne is a pious Christian, and is deeply influenced by the theology.
So thick are the palisades of thorny mimosa -- an aggressive weed akin to the touch-me-not -- that India's endangered one-horned rhino can no longer move about freely in Kaziranga National Park. Attack Of the Aliens
Instead of dense woodlands there was dry thorny scrub, cacti and open bare dusty areas. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
We are all at the mercy of a falling tile, " Julius Caesar reminds us in Thornton Wilder's Ides of March.
After finally being seen by a passer-by at about 5am yesterday and airlifted to safety he was still nursing painful injuries inflicted all over his legs and buttocks by the thorns.
Many were convinced of Thornton's guilt and he was assailed in local and London newspapers.
The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.
Common and characteristic plants include several acacias: boat-thorned acacia (Acacia cochliacantha), and tree catclaw, or tésota (Acacia occidentalis). Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
Of or on the calyx: as calycine fcales — calycine thorns. The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
He addresses this thorny question in his third book on the science of belief.
Thankfully, they neither pros-elytised nor expressed opinions on some of the thornier issues. Times, Sunday Times
We passed a valley with the large thorny acacias of which canoes are often made, and a euphorbiaceous tree, with seed-vessels as large as mandarin oranges, with three seeds inside. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
Upon their return, she was enrolled in the Phoebe Anne Thorne School, where she received a classical education and was tutored in French.
The little lady hath no shoon, no skirt that holds together, save by the grace of cockspur thorns that bind the tatters. The Hidden Children
High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
Even if the craziest command, when buck for Thornton win bets.
The language and sequencing of sanctions relief has proved one of the thorniest issues. Times, Sunday Times
So from pantaloons and pantalettes to divided drawers, boxers, granny pants and bikinis, you can bet your choice of underwear will get a mention, and no doubt Hawthorne knows exactly what it says about you.
When the minister in Hawthorne's story donned the veil, ‘its gloom… enabled him to sympathise with all dark affections.’
My persistent opposition has become a thorn in the side of the trade union leaders, because it has exposed their shameless collaboration with management.
Divers have also attempted to kill the crown-of-thorns by injecting them with poison. Crown-of-thorn sea star
Many althorn players in the United States are often players whose chief instrument was not originally the althorn.
There are more than 1,500 kinds of plants in these forests, including 19 kinds of rare plants such as the thorned cyathea spinulosa, the Chinese double-fan fern, the Chinese goose-palm catalpa and the yinque tree.
Majestic figures appear as if by magic from blocks of apple wood, hawthorn, sandstone, limestone, bronze and marble.
After a bright start the home side took a third minute lead when Matthew Rhead floated the ball over goalkeeper Mark Thornley and saw his effort drop just under the crossbar.
The rural imagery is varied: the rising sap, meadows, individual plants, birds, a bedewed rose among its thorns, storm, flood, and fair weather.
Oct. 25, 5:45 P. M. Today after classes Thorne and Posie and I sat in the bleachers in the natatorium and watched swim practice. THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. II: STOP, DON'T STOP
Due to the proposed similarity in function among thorns, spines, and prickles, we will hereafter generically refer to all plants bearing them as armed.
Briars and thorns tore at my legs.
At least this closes the matter as far as Düsseldorf is concerned, and with the new Swiss-German tax treaty, this sort of tax-driven business won't be the sort Credit Suisse is looking to obtain," Helvea analyst Peter Thorne wrote in a note. Credit Suisse Pays to End Tax Probe
The arrival of spring is associated with the flowers of the hawthorn, the return of the swifts and, of course, the violet-blue carpets of bluebells.
Abbot, also taken by surprise at Thorne's sudden change of tactics, hurried to open the door for them. UNTO THE GRAVE
The lack of consistency in program labels and definitions nationwide creates a thorny obstacle to research synthesis.
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
Paul confirmed that the source of our suffering is Satan when he referred to his thorn in the flesh as a “messenger of Satan” 2 Cor. Beyond the Storm
Just a mile from the M62, the secluded Piethorne Valley is hidden from view in the lower folds of high Pennine moors.
Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica.
Shrubs: chittamwood (a bumelia also called gum-elastic), yaupon, spatulate-leaved hawthorn.
One Washington economist, Margo Thorning, said Bernanke and his colleagues may eventually try that tactic again.
To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
He had clad himself from basnet to shoes in steel, and mounted on a strong destrier, went his road to essay the Passage of the Thorn. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
He turned his arm toward her, pulling the torn cloth from the spot on his bicep that had borne the cut of the blackthorn hours earlier. Healing the Highlander
Hardy fuchsias also make attractive hedges either as a single species or mixed with other hedging plants, such as hawthorn and beech.
It hawthorn besides bechance that the communication spreads each abundant the lung and it has to be distant. Blogpulse Top Links
Guest of honour at the official opening of Thornden Hall was internationally renowned percussionist Miss Evelyn Glennie, who has collected a string of awards.
In the twenty-four-inch space at the right end of the hot dog there was a brown-yellow plain with just a few thorny trees a-thirsting on it and a pride of lions resting in the stingy shade beneath one of those trees, and far in the distance, too far for the warm lions to bother with, a herd of wildebeests was kicking up dust, and even further in the distance Mt. Kilimanjaro jumped up like God's own sugar-tit, and in a modest encampment at the foot of the peak, E. Hemingway was cleaning his Weatherby 375 magnum (not trusting the native boys to handle such an instrument) and slurping his gin. Another Roadside Attraction
The camels seem to enjoy bunches of dry-looking thorn bush.
Later parliamentary enclosures were characterised by quickset hawthorn hedges running in straight lines.
And from what Thorn could make out, he had spindly legs and a pronounced potbelly. BLACKWATER SOUND
The dark purple berries, fruit of the blackthorn, are best after the first frosts because they break down more easily.
All were togged out in rain gear and the party made its way across country along the shady hawthorn byroads to Achonry Cathedral where a special party welcomed them with refreshments.
The concordance at the end of Thornberry's volume lists the subjects of all the articles and letters he has cited.
At points the towpath is bordered by mature trees and thickets of elder and hawthorn, home to many different species of birds.
The crossvine, bignonia ‘Tangerine Beauty’ entwined with Killer on the clothesline pole posed a thorny problem if it was to be saved. Killer- An Update « Fairegarden
The wintry haw is burning out of season, crab of the thorn, a small light for small people, wanting no more from them but that they keep the wick of self-respect from dying out, not having to blind them with illumination. Seamus Heaney - Poetry: The Haw Lantern
Dubai's failure to make it harder for Iranian activities in the emirate is a thorny issue with federal officials in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. government, which is keen to choke off the Islamic republic from the outside world with new sanctions. Hamas Killing Exposes Dubai's Dark Side
Of all the little maintenance procedures that harpsichord owners must attend to, replacing a plectrum is perhaps the thorniest of issues.
He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike. Southern Arabia
This latter thin man, I should say, was bronze, and six inches tall; he was also wearing a bronze loincloth and a bronze circlet of thorns.
Shrubs such as hawthorn, field maple, blackthorn, beech, hornbeam and holly make good hedging.
If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old.
The mesophilous semideciduous forest with fluctuating moisture has an arboreal story 8-15 m high, an undergrowth of microphyllous and thorny deciduous species (with leaves 1-6 cm long), and a rich herbaceous layer formed by numerous geophytes. Cuban dry forests
The most common are dragonets, topknots, dabs, plaice and, if you're lucky, the occasional anglerfish and thornback ray.
He is one of the fastest and most direct forwards in the Premiership and a constant thorn in the side of opposing defenders.
Thornton also stars as a mildly retarded man who returns to his hometown after 25 years in a mental institution.
The last pitch is a memorable chimney with a thorny bush that you have to climb through.
The word "brier" or "briar" has no connexion whatever with the prickly, thorny briar which bears the lovely wild rose. The Social History of Smoking
In his head, he made a catalog of what the tea would need - blackcurrant, chamomile, heather, hawthorn, lemon balm, motherwort, marjoram, passion flower, and St John's wort.
Power radiates from it, cold and razor-thorned, prickles against her skin, her face. Black Dust Mambo
They lived in Thorncliffe Road, off Fell Lane, Keighley from 1936 to the late sixties.
Male shrikes in Israel's Negev Desert impale snails and nest-building materials onto thorns to attract mates.
Of the three ways leading to perfection the first is called the purgative, and consists in the purifying of the soul; from which, as from a piece of waste ground, we must take away the brambles and thorns of sin before planting there trees which shall bear good fruit. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
Cook only partially reported what Marana officials did when they gobbled up 1, 200 acres at Tangerine and Thornydale roads.
Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole. Seed dispersal of desert plants
Thorn ran and thrust the stick into the back of the demon, making him lose his balance, and stumbling.
Because of its prickles the Boers call the mimosa the "wait-a-bit" thorn, but there was no thought of waiting a bit among the 12th Lancers at the Berea, when they charged the savage Basutos and captured their chief Moshesh. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin. Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas
In meetings between the top three this season, leaving aside Thornlie's round one forfeit to Kenwick, the results have been full of interest.
Among my hobbies is hanging on the words of manga scholar and sometimes translator Matt Thorn. 17 « February « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
I must confess that on this thorny question of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship, I'd be a bit of a maverick.
For background planting, especially if you have plenty of space, grow yews, hawthorn, holly, elder and Viburnum opulus, the Guelder rose.
After a cavalry charge during the 1916 U. S. expedition in Mexico to capture Pancho Villa, Thorn recommends four soldiers for the Medal of Honor.
Its nail was a rose thorn; she allowed it to scratch at her skin, making a faint red mark.
They extracted the document recording the bet and officially ‘signed’ his admission of defeat with a thumbprint before returning the paper to the files for Thorne to discover later.
If Thorne had been more aware of the niceties of American society, he would have muttered something like `Ivy League" to himself. UNTO THE GRAVE
The hero of that scene is called Oberon, one of the feigned names which Hawthorne himself used at times in contributing to periodicals. A Study Of Hawthorne
Thornton knew of various incidents which confirmed his opinion that Walsh made a distinctly negative impression in the hunt for backers.
He then pointed to a scraggy camelthorn tree about one hundred yards away and said, You will live under that tree. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a thorn, or barbed wire to hang their prey on while they eat.
We were fascinated by your use of rutin, since this flavonoid is a constituent in many herbs, including chamomile, elderberry and hawthorn.
The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
The head opened up to reveal rows of tooth-like thorns.
With Skeletons, set for release in the first quarter of 2010, Hawthorne Heights has moved on, aided in part by a new label affiliation, Wind-Up Records, home of Creed, Seether and Evanescence. Tucson Weekly

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