The Duke will call at the Thistle to-morrow or next day for that purpose.
The seed of this Star Thistle made into powder, and drank in wine, provokes urine, and helps to break the stone, and drives it forth.
But the thistle and I have put our heads together, and we have hit on a plan.
There were dense clumps of them--thistle and burdock, poppy and harebell, and dandelion; and all their heads were full of seed.
And the thistle looked at the burdock and asked, "Where in the world have you come from?
For soon the Thistle will bloom at midnight in full splendour and strength, and in the death of love dawns the morning of a higher life.
In the middle of a clump of flowers a lofty thistle had shot up, which drooped its withering blossom beneath the morning sun; about this a variegated tulip wound itself, and that also had died a vegetable death.
It was midnight, when suddenly the balsamic odours of the large-blossomed thistlespread through the whole garden.
The soul of a mortal protrudes from the visible body as down expands from a thistle seed, but it is invisible.
Could you even have blown the down from a thistle bloom?
They are the yellow-flowered centaury, the mountain centaury, the star thistle and the rough centaury: the first predominates.
Common thistle it rises to the hight of from 3 to 4 feet.
A dumb boy, who aided in the working of the mill, sat astride of a log of timber, kicking his feet among the long grasses, and blowing thistle down above his head upon the breeze.
The boy left off blowing the thistle feathers on the wind, and grinned, and answered on his hands, "Flamma is almost dead, they say.
I pass'd by his garden, And saw the wild brier, The thorn and the thistle Grow broader and higher; The clothes that hung on him Are turning to rags, And his money still wastes Till he starves or he begs.
A few days afterwards Tom went with his mother into the fields to milk the cows, and for fear he should be blown away by the wind, she tied him to a thistle with a small piece of thread.
A tuft of grass, a thistle green, Or cabbage-leaf so sweet, Were all the dainties, he was seen For twenty years to eat.
Very soon after a cow ate up the thistle and swallowed Tom Thumb.
There wasa chewink in the Stanley woods, that brought off a brood of four, under the safe shelter of a rank thistle leaf, in the midst of trampling herds of cattle driven wild by flies.
Then one of them approached a thistle head opposite me in such a way its antennae and the long tongue it thrust into the bloom could be seen.
Scarcely realizing what I was doing, the tripod was set up, the best camera taken out, and focused on that thistle head.
No wonder artists have painted them, decorators conventionalized them; even potters could not pass by their artistic merit, for I remembered that in a china closet at home there were Belleck cups moulded in the shape of a thistle head.
The thistle was immediately adopted as the insignia of Scotland.
In the north-eastern part was a small lake of a rose colour, the water of which, as I was informed by Mr. Thistle who visited it, was so saturated with salt that sufficient quantities were crystallised near the shores to load a ship.
That such was intended, he might have learned privately; but he added, that Mr. Thistle would be lost before the other vessel joined.
Besides performing assiduously the duties of his situation, Mr. Thistlehad made himself well acquainted with the practice of nautical astronomy, and began to be very useful in the surveying department.
Mr. Thistle found the opening to be very narrow, and no more than 2 fathoms in the shoalest part; we therefore stood out, repassing within a small black islet, upon which were some seals.
Whilst we were lying at Spithead, Mr. Thistle was one day waiting on shore, and having nothing else to do he went to a certain old man, named Pine, to have his fortune told.
The reader will pardon me the observation that Mr. Thistle was truly a valuable man, as a seaman, an officer, and a good member of society.
Mr. Thistle and some others who had eaten liberally were taken sick, and remained unwell all the day afterward.
Rose and Thistle were the dogs which had belonged to her, and now whenever they heard her name, they noticed it directly, and looked sharply round as if expecting her.
With sparkling eyes, which seemed to glance with modest pleasure, Thistle looked at Roland when he explained to Eric that the dog would obey only English words, but by their use could be managed perfectly; if he called out to him "zuruck!
Manna walked dreamily along, but became roused to full consciousness when the dogs Rose and Thistle sprang up to her, rejoiced to have their mistress with them again.
Thistle sprang up, caught the branch with his sharp teeth, and remained hanging to it till Roland told him to let go.
Thistle looked at him as if deaf; but the moment he said "Come back!
Thistle was also sent into the hole, and his bark was heard far below, but the fox did not come out.
The cow soon observed Tom's oak-leaf hat, and liking the appearance of it, took poor Tom and the thistle at one mouthful.
While the cow was chewing the thistle Tom was afraid of her great teeth, which threatened to crush him in pieces, and he roared out as loud as he could: "Mother, mother!
As the wind was very high, for fear of being blown away, she tied him to a thistlewith a piece of fine thread.
Thou bender of the thistle of Lora; why, thou breeze of the valley, hast thou left mine ear?
If we wonder at the fierce struggle for existence which allows only a few out of the many seeds of a maple or thistle to germinate and grow up, how can we realise the obstacles with which these lowly plants have to contend?
John imagines that yonder big thistle is some whiskered villain, of whom he has read in a fairy book, and he advances on him with "Die, ruffian!
I am not much attracted by the gaunt, flavorless mullein, and the wiry thistle of upland country pastures, where the grass is always gray, as if the world were already weary and sick of life.
In September, visited Thistle Valley, organizing a Primary Association with ten little Indian children enrolled as members.
Thistle Valley assisted the Bishop in organizing a Relief Society, with an Indian sister as a counselor; the first Indian woman ordained and set apart to an office in this dispensation.
But the time was not yet ripe for any real union of the Thistleand the Rose.
Union of theThistle and the Rose to welcome this second English Margaret to Scotland.
Inglis kept to their work, and when necessary confronted the Austro-German officers with all the audacity of their leader and the Scottish thistle combined.
Let others choose what they may for food, but give me, above everything, a fine juicy thistle like this and I will be content.
But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet.
The same legend is also told to account for like spots on the leaves of the Blessed Thistle (War.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thistle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
