The Black Sage on the mountains is part of a dense, thorny chaparral, which is composed chiefly of adenostoma, ceanothus, manzanita, and cherrynot differing greatly from that of the southern portion of the Sierra, but more dense and continuous, and taller, and remaining longer in bloom.

The slopes are exceptionally steep and insecure to the foot, and they are covered with thorny bushes from five to ten feet high.

And some yet live, treading the thorny road Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode.

In San Francisco, in 1849, on Dupont Street near Washington, a wretched tent, patched together from mildewed and weather-worn sails, was pitched on a hill-side lot, unsightly with sand and thorny bushes, filthy cast-aways of clothing, worn-out boots, and broken bottles.

Indeed, indeed, my dearest life, said I, you have hitherto afforded me but a very thorny courtship.

See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of Pain, At length repair his vigor lost, And breathe and walk again: The meanest flow'r'et of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common Sun, the air, and skies, To him are opening Paradise.

The treesebony, chatak, dakua, and sandalwoodgrew here in greater numbers than we had met them on the first day, while the lawyer-vines and thorny creepers rivalled the devilish meshes that had held us back as we climbed the slope to the Vermilion Pit.

The forest was a trackless and dreadful forestthe leaves not green, but blackthe boughs not freely growing, but knotted and twistedthe fruit no fruit, but thorny poison.

The marble courts, the fountains, the splendid galleries, and the gardens of richest southern bloom and fragrance, stand like an epicurean island in the midst of the terrible stony waves, whose edges bristle with the thorny aloe and cactus.

So, while the path of life I tread, A path to me with briers spread; Let me its tangled mazes spy Like you, with gay, good-humour'd eye; Nor at those thorny tracts repine, The treasure of your friendship, mine.

One man was hit as he was struggling to get through a hedge and died standing, held upright by the thorny branches.

The bristled boar, In infant gore, Wallows beneath the thorny shade.

She was under the guidance of Mr. Greatheart, and went, therefore, with silver slippers along the thorny road.

Let none call happy one whose art's deep source They know notor what thorny paths he trode To reach its dazzling goal!

For them He bore His Father's frown; For them He wore The thorny Crown; Nailed to the Cross, Endured its pain, That his life's loss Might be their gain.

Thou yet may'st lead him back With holy words, and tones of love, From misery's thorny track: Forget not thou hast often sinned And sinful yet must be: Deal kindly with the erring one As God hath dealt with thee!"

When we tire of Tennyson's smooth perfection, of an art that is over exquisite, and a beauty that is well-nigh too beautiful, and crave a rougher touch, and a meaning that will not yield itself too readily, we turn to the thorny pages of his great contemporary, Robert Browning (1812-1889).

But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Bedient turned into the thick, thorny undergrowth, which lined the eastern wall of the Inlet, and made his way around its devious curvings, silently and slowly.

" As also this: "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.

yet the flock master should have written down what remedies are used for certain of their maladies and especially for the wounds which often befall them by reason of their constant fighting among themselves and their feeding in thorny places.

And straight, unclasping from my brow The thorny crown of lost delight, The solemn grandeur of the night Flashed on me from old years, as now.

They tell me I'm treading with careless feet This thorny, deceitful path, When the Master cometh my face to greet He will open his vials of wrath.

Here was no danger to be feared!nothing but a little kind help to a man of genius, whose great gifts might be so easily nullified and undone by his thorny vehemence of character, his lack of breeding and education.

That poor devil of a Tristram was going to have a thorny time in the future, he thought, and he was to be best man at the wedding; it would be like giving the old chap over to a tigress!