You're not looking yourself to-day," said Padna Dan to his friend Micus Pat, as he cut a switch from a blackthorn tree on the road to Mallow on a May morning.
A man with a gun is better than a man with a blackthorn stick in his fist at any time, even though he might be an Irishman inself,' ses he.
And your own hair turned as white as sheep's wool on a blackthorn bush.
Dan went to see who it was, and found standing on the threshold a tall, lean old man in a long, ragged coat, with a thick, knotted blackthorn in his hand.
It's only a scratch from the blackthorn spikes, but I'd have given a finger to be shot of this devil!
I hurled myself between them, and had such difficulty in wresting the blackthorn from the madman's grasp that his hand was bleeding, and something had tinkled on the pavement, when I tore it from him.
They threw branches of blackthorn bloom upon her coffin.
Hornbeam, beech, myrobalan or cherry plum and blackthorn also have their advantages, hornbeam being proof against great exposure, blackthorn thriving on poor land and possessing great impenetrability and so on.
His two clenched hands were raised above his head, and a heavy, blackthorn stick lay across them.
He was dressed in nightshirt and trousers, with his favourite blackthorn cudgel in his hand.
So I did as he bade me and took his gear, worth six kine, and did it on me; I laid turf upon him in that dale, and hid my bow and my gear in a blackthorn brake hard by, and then took his horse and rode away.
The long-tailed tit often builds its nest in the midst of blackthorn thickets (which afford it the lichen it uses), or in deep hawthorn bushes.
The blackthorn bloom began to faintly show the tiniest white studs, and the boys in great triumph brought in the first blue thrush's eggs.
Charles cleared Channing's Blackthorn and strode to the next.
Keeping this order, they reached the next fence, Which was living plashed blackthorn with gorse-toppings dense; In the gloom of its darkness it loomed up immense.
Now, suddenly, he stopped still, and stood looking at the distant blackthorn hedge that made a dark network against the last gleam in the west.
The blackthorn began to show a breaking of pale blossom upon its branches and the hawthorn to vie with it.
His success was due to his knowledge of the hare's taste for blackthorn twigs.
The smell of the blackthornwould draw the hare to the spot, and he would move round and round nibbling the twigs until caught.
He was dressed in his shirt and trousers, with his favourite blackthorn cudgel in his hand.
His two clenched hands were raised above his head, and a heavy blackthorn stick lay across them.
Mr. Gano stopped meditatively, and struck his blackthorn into the gray "MacAdam" powder.
He caught up his blackthorn stick, and they set off.
The great romantic revelation that wasn't to be spoken of to any one-- He struck his blackthorn energetically on the ground and went on: "The increase of eye troubles is appalling.
From the conspicuous blackness of its rind at the time of flowering, the tree is named Blackthorn, and the spell of harsh unkindly cold weather which prevails about then goes by the name of "blackthorn winter.
The blackthorn is perhaps the first conspicuous flower; but in date it seems to vary much.
A degree further west, on the contrary, the hawthorn did not show a leaf for some time after the blackthorn had bloomed in Surrey.
The white bloom of the blackthorn seems to show there a full fortnight earlier than it does on the same line of latitude not many miles farther west.
When they reached Blackthorn Bower they found an immense surprise awaiting them.
Below, with a hedge between, lay a tiny quarry, where blackthorn was breaking into blossom, and ivy trailed over the remains of an old wall.
But at that moment Bevis stepped from the ruins of Blackthorn Bower and faced him.
I'm going to call it 'Blackthorn Bower', and take possession.
Saturday at the beginning of April saw the three once more setting off for Blackthorn Bower.
They did not care for him to know about Blackthorn Bower, or the cups of rough pottery, and their picnics and talks about the prehistoric people.
He glanced to the right and left as he walked and gripped his heavy blackthorn stick firmly in his hand.
Mr. Juxon, in his absence of mind, had gone through the gate alone, swinging his blackthorn stick in his hand, Stamboul stalking at his heel in the gloom.
At last a tall, broad-shouldered, burly blacksmith strode forward from the crowd swinging a mighty blackthorn club in his hand.
And thou pratest like a coward," answered the stranger, "for thou standest there with a good yew bow to shoot at my heart, while I have nought in my hand but a plain blackthorn staff wherewith to meet thee.
Then on again down the narrow path, where blackthorn and olive brushed him as he passed, by the great white house with the sea-wall he knew well, and into the road just opposite his father's house.
And where suns peep, in every sheltered place, The little early buttercups unfold A glittering star or two--till many trace The edges of the blackthorn clumps in gold.
Did you chance to hear the name of the prodigy whose single blackthorn foiled the attempt made by four thousand of the best troops in the Imperial service?
The myriad midges performed their rites over the blackthorn and the oak, and blackthorn and oak looked as if changed into stone.
Jog then bundled off, to try and fashion a most incorrigible-looking, knotty blackthorn into a head of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackthorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
