Faint as it is, it sways the heavy laden brome grass, but is not strong enough to lift a ball of thistledown from the bennets among which it is entangled.
Thistledown is pouting forth from the swollen tops of thistles crowded with seed.
We ate and we drank and we chatted together, Till the fireflies lighted us off to our beds; And we all fell asleep in our cots made of rose leaves, With pillows of thistledown under our heads.
Winds puffed at it, and away it went like a ball of thistledown through the air!
Thistledown was as gay and gallant a little Elf as ever spread a wing.
Now while Thistledown was a captive in the lonely cell, Lily-Bell was seeking him far and wide, and sadly traced him by the sorrowing hearts he had left behind.
Thus she journeyed on, till she reached the forest where Thistledownhad lost his freedom.
Then from the vine-leaves two little arms were stretched out to her, and Thistledown was found.
Like a ball of thistledown it kissed the sea, rose, kissed it again, and thus rising and kissing passed finally out of sight.
The rising and falling of the ball of thistledown was represented by the sudden droop forward of her own head, and when it passed out of sight she was asleep.
Softly as thistledown the days floated into eternity; yet they were days of expectation and action.
A thistledown that the breeze ran after Brushed lightly against my cheek.
But where shall I ever get thistledown enough for so many shirts?
He stopped and wondered who the lovely lady could be that walked alone on the moor picking thistledown in the dead of the night; and he asked her name.
At this the milkmaids clapped their hands, and little Joan, running to the Well-House, with a touch like thistledowndrew from the weeper's yellow hair a yellow primrose.
A thing as important as thistledown is as unimportantly dismissed.
For as light as thistledown to him were loveless vows, but love, even though no vow may hallow it, he held more sacred than his own oath.
Mrs. Falbe had drifted out in her usual thistledown style, and shook hands with Michael.
She drifted towards the studio door, in thistledown fashion catching at corners a little, and then moving smoothly on again, talking gently half to herself, half to the others.
Butterflies with gaily painted wings hovered tenderly overhead, and tiny silver thistledown balls sailed across the blue sky spaces, like little wayward balloons without anybody in charge of them.
Thistledown sounds more romantic, and then I shall wake from my dream.
But thistledown glued to a firm surface will be firm, and any light thing lashed to a solid one will be solid; and reeds shaken with the wind may be turned into brazen pillars that cannot be moved.
We are built on Him, and in our compact union find a real support to a life which is otherwise baseless and blown about like thistledown by every breath.
A faint patter-patter as of fallingthistledown is heard constantly, insistently, inevitably.
The extremest direct effect of hypnotism upon the eye, mechanically speaking, is doubtless scarcely more than the shock of thistledown wafted against it by a gentle breeze.
A shock even as slight as a bit of thistledown blown against the cornea might be ill--timed at a street-crossing.
I thought a piece of thistledown lighted there, but it may have blown off.
There is a bit of thistledown there," said Patty, "but don't brush it off.
But, Freckles, there was never a place anywhere in the Limberlost, or in the whole world, where the thistledown floated and sprang up and blossomed into white lilies!
For the goldfinch was skipping, flirting, and swinging for the express purpose of so holding his attention that he would not look up and see a small cradle of thistledown and wool perilously near his head.
Thistledown floated round them, enraptured by the serenity, of the ether.
But the thistledown was still as death, and the face of his old master.
As the bell clanged again, she laid a hand light as thistledown on Ralph's arm.
He turned as a hand lay light as thistledown on his arm.
I used to think one could blow thethistledown fellow about whithersoever one pleased.
Silky balls of thistledown come irresolutely rolling over the edge, now this way now that: some rise and float across, some follow the surface and cling awhile to the bennets in the hollow.
The dexterous way in which a bird helps itself to thistledownis interesting to watch.
Thistledown is sometimes gathered to fill pillow-cases, and a pillow so filled is exquisitely soft.
Not from the high, noble motives of honor and self-respect that are the reasons why most people insist upon having their rights, but because toThistledown his liberty meant his happiness.
One day as Thistledown was floating over a field of daisies, he spied a spot of yellow among the flowers that was very much larger than any of the daisy centres, and much shinier and softer.
Thistledown became frightened, but the more he struggled to free himself the more tangled he became in the golden mesh.
Get behind you and say pouf—like that,’ and puffing out her rosy cheeks, she sent Thistledown sailing merrily away through the warm, sunshiny air.
Then the little girl stood up, still holdingThistledown gently in her chubby hand.
Sometimes they would dip him in the brook, but Thistledown did not mind that, for he shed water like a duck and the little plunge served finely to cool him off on hot summer days.
Thistledown stopped talking, quite out of breath and tired with his long story.
I feel as out of breath as Thistledown did, when he had finished his adventure,” she laughed.
And so it happened—but I am going to let Thistledown tell his story in his own way.
Thistledown was the fairy’s name, and you’ll see what he got for being naughty and mischievous.
Thistledown squirmed and wriggled and began to grow warm and cross.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thistledown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
