A curious prickly plant grows about here, something like a dwarf broom, if its leaves were sharp thorns, it is called Kardert.

I see no reason to doubt this, as the twigs are long and pliant, and armed with small, though most cruel, thorns.

The camel is very fond of sharp, prickly thorns.

I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.'

The only little thorn in her pillow was, that whereas in the novels, of which she read a great many, the heroines all go and pay visits and have adventures, she had none, but lived constantly at home.

He was a constant thorn in the side of the peace faction, and more than once came to blows with some of the members.

Ecl. iii. 89. 'The ragged thorn shall bear the fragrant rose.' 419.

The game of France was less to replace James on the English throne than to make of Ireland a permanent thorn in the side of England.

Aphrodite With hair unbound is wandering through the woods, Wildered, ungirt, unsandalledthe thorns pierce Her hastening feet, and drink her sacred blood.

But there were other trees which had been grown from slips of the miraculous thorn and these, "mindful of our Lord" still keep the sacred birthday and blossom each year on Christmas Day.

The shifting folds of gloomy cloud began to glide asunder, and through the gauzy veils which lingered in the interspaces, there came a dim radiance which lighted up the rain-drops "lingering on the pointed thorns;" and the tall meadow grasses were swaying to and fro with their loads of liquid pearls, in courtesies full of exquisite grace, as we whirled along.

None should know that better than the botanist, who sees whole regions desolate, and given up to sterility and literal thorns and thistles, on account of man's sin and folly, ignorance and greedy waste.

Then there is the Danish tradition relating to the lonely thorn, occasionally seen in a field, but which never grows larger.

Many pilgrims there were who came to worship at the shrine of St. Joseph; to drink from the holy well which sprang from the foot of Chalice Hill where the Holy Cup lay buried; and to watch the budding of the mystic thorn, which, year after year, when the snows of Christmas covered the hills, put forth its holy blossoms, "a symbol of God's promise, care and love.

I was staying with some friends in the country, and I had gone for a walk with my dog, and the poor wee mite got a nasty thorn in his little foot

To reverse the verdict would certainly be a thorn in his side,a pernicious thorn,but one which, if necessary, he would endure.

The Gap had, ever since Bessie could remember, been absolutely shrouded in trees, its encircling wall hidden in ivy bushes, over which laburnums, lilacs, pink thorns, and horse chestnuts towered; and the drive from the seldom-opened gate was almost obstructed by the sweeping arms of laurels and larches.

And his hands were clenched before, How his hair was fouled and knit With the blood that clotted it, Where the prickled thorns had bit In his crownèd agony; In his hands so wan and blue, Leaning out, I saw the two Marks of where the nails pierced through, Once on gloomy Calvary.

But when women had settled down into the work, and were allowed to represent themselves in the theatre (a privilege not as yet accorded to them elsewhere), they announced practically and forcibly that all that glittered was not gold, and that a successful, much-loved heroine did not invariably tread the rosy path without finding the proverbial thorns.

On, deeper and deeper into the wood,now dodging under the green and snaky cat-briers, with their retractile thorns and vicious clinging grasp,now dashing along the woodman's paths,now struggling among the opposing underwood.

2 No more shall flowers the meads adorn, Nor sweetness deck the rosy thorn, Nor swelling buds proclaim the spring, Nor parching heats the dog-star bring, Nor laughing lilies paint the grove, When blue-eyed Ann I cease to love.

The Professor jumped at the explosion as if he had sat down on one of those small calthrops our grandfathers used to sow round in the grass when there were Indians about,iron stars, each ray a rusty thorn an inch and a half long,stick through moccasins into feet,cripple 'em on the spot, and give 'em lockjaw in a day or two.

It was built by Wm. de Mohun, and by his successor was made a sad thorn in the side of King Stephen.

The maids and women need no danger fear To walk by night, and sanctity so near: For by some haycock, or some shady thorn, He bids his beads both even-song and morn.

But this is not the case; the branches spread out very widely, and by cutting off the tops and trimming the remainder twice in a season a very handsome thickset hedge is produced, with lustrous leaves and sharp, straight thorns.