It was rough and tough, like gutta-percha, tipped with a fine spike, and armed on each side, for the last inch of its length, with a row of sharp barbs pointing backwards.

The lovely Countess was mounted on a fiery Spanish barb, given to her by De Gondomar.

The Magnificent barb.

See, see, He reins his docile barb with manly grace.

The arrow, indeed, had struck Venetia with a double barb.

The sticky substance in the bird's mouth covers the little barbs on its tongue, and thus he is able to catch a great many ants at a time.

In one place a tomato-field had been wired; the green vines, laden with their rich red fruit, were intertwined with the steel vines bearing their vicious blood-drawing barbs whose intent was to make the red field redder still.

He started up, forgetting everything else, his face all flushed, his eyes like coals, his mouth tight and his tongue silent; and how many hooks he had out I'm sure I don't know, but he kept jerking them in by twos and threes, and finally they bit at the bare barb and were taken without any bait at all, just as if they'd come and asked to be caught.

It might have been refused; but wherefore barb And venom the refusal with contempt?

It is seven inches in length, made of some hard wood, with an arm four and a half inches long, turning up at a sharp angle, and tipped with a slightly curved barb of tortoise-shell projecting horizontally inwards an inch and a half.

The horrible little gray creature, striking up over its back with spiked tail, drove the deadly barb half an inch into the orderly's naked ankle.