All he knew was that she loved him and that the thistles were good.
The donkey was eating the thistles with a satisfaction, the intensity of which was shown by the way his long ears stood up.
During the numerous trips that she made from the house to the pump she saw that not only did grass and thistles grow in the Field, but there were flowers.
Thistledown is pouting forth from the swollen tops of thistles crowded with seed.
Occasionally a movement among the thistles betrays the presence of a rabbit; only occasionally, for though the banks are drilled with buries, the lane is too hot for them at midday.
The white thistle-down, which stays on the bursting thistles because there is no wind to waft it away, reflects it; the white is pushed aside by the colour that the stained sunbeams bring.
Satin hat trimmed with thistles and ribbon, and black staff tied with thistles and ribbon streamers.
Three stones above a small hole in the ground serve as a cooking-range, while the fuel is abundant in the form of sun-dried thistles and other weeds, or palmetto leaves and sticks.
The door space is left on the side which faces the centre of the encampment, and the walls or "curtains" are formed of high thistles lashed together in sheaves.
I was reared in it, and I never knew it other; thistles and docks as big as your leg, everywhere, and the grass choked up with moss.
A genus of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance.
That is why the donkey thrives so excellently to this day on thistles and nettle-tops: they represent the ancestral food of his kind for many generations.
The dry fennel and yellow thistles and tall weedy mulleins were waist-high among the tombs.
The whole secret of my hunting is reduced to my dense nursery of thistles and centauries.
They will leave the thistles to visit the neighbouring shrubs and there cut from the leaves oval pieces which will be made into a fit receptacle to contain the harvest.
Its mighty growth of thistles and centauries draws them all to me from everywhere around.
The Thistles upon the Grave A Mind Reader made a wager that he would be buried alive and remain so for six months, then be dug up alive.
They will leave the thistles to visit the neighboring shrubs and there cut from the leaves oval pieces which will be made into a fit receptacle to contain the harvest.
Perhaps mention should here be made of the arms (granted in 1826) of the National Bank of Scotland, the shield of which is "surrounded with two thistles proper disposed in orle.
When ignorance wags his ears of leather And hates God's word, 't is altogether; Nor leaves he his congenial thistles To go and browse on Paul's Epistles.
Once fed on corn, will, missing corn, go munch Mere thistleslike a donkey!
These are the seeds that fell among the thistles and the thorns.
That plant is a foreigner, no doubt," said the thistles and the burdocks.
Then came the swineherd; he was collecting thistles and shrubs to burn them for the ashes.
Sun and rain and dew from heaven, Light and shade and air, Heat and moisture freely given, Thorns and thistles share.
On this dank soilthistles muster, Thorns are broadcast sown; Seek not figs where thistles cluster, Grapes where thorns have grown.
We have begun to believe that our writers are afflicted with a sort of myopy that shuts out effectually sky and star and sea, and sees only the pebbles and thistles by the dusty roadside.
Through the forest cool and dark, Never hitting the destined mark; Over the earth and through the air, Downy thistles everywhere.
The thistles run over his grain fields, his cattle run over his hay land, the interest runs over its time, the mortgage runs over all, and at last he jist runs over to the lines to Eastport, himself.
Then the Jews came, who hated him also; and they dragged the miserable corpse through the streets; and made a bonfire of thistles in a remote place and burned it; and what was left of the bones and ashes they threw into the Tiber.
The farmer in this locality must have an alert eye for Canada thistles and oxeye daisy.
Evils grow as weeds grow in the garden, as thorns and thistles and briers cover the untended fields.
They fly in crowds to the most barren fields, where there are more thistles than grass, and are easily caught by boys, who will give you four or five cardinals in exchange for a single needle, in the city of Corrientes.
This was overgrown with a thicket of stunted shrubs, wry-necked goblin thistles and murderous devil’s clubs.
But I really thought the wolves were doing the talking until I caught sight of a tall man of handsome and distinguished appearance seated among the weird goblin-thistles just above the wolves.
The road that had been so long trodden by devout pilgrims was overgrown with furze and heather, and the blue thistles of the sands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thistles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
