Which means that I'm going to get a scolding," observed the King, folding his arms, with such a rueful look that Count Thorn could scarcely help laughing.
So long as the beast was only a cub, Count Thorn made no objection to it, and indeed was rather pleased that his pupil had found something to amuse him.
In short, let Count Thorn talk as he pleased, the King was not to be persuaded; and like most people who are fond of having their own way, he had to pay dearly for it in the end, as you shall see.
I am going to live in my own house on Thorn Street.
You used to live with your aunt up on Thorn Street, but she died and you got the house.
Then when Aunt Eloise went out to join her sister, the Thorn Street house was left to Eveley, and other property given to Winifred to compensate.
Eveley's mother had been born in the house on Thorn Street, as had her sister, Eloise, the aunt with whom the girls had lived for many years.
My dear, very dear Poole, The heart thoroughly penetrated with the flame of virtuous friendship is in a state of glory; but lest it should be exalted above measure, there is given to it a thorn in the flesh.
The present hour I am in a quick-set hedge of embarrassment, and, whichever way I turn, a thorn runs into me.
And therefore hath white thorn many virtues; for he that beareth a branch thereof upon him, no thunder nor tempest may hurt him; and no evil spirit may enter in the house in which it is, or come to the place that it is in.
Sir Jacques Trousset, informed of his arrival, declared he would hang him on a thorn in the garden.
Possibly this was St. Paul's thorn in the flesh, which pricked him so that he should not be too much uplifted.
I will take a thorn from the gooseberry bush to spear him with.
So, with her tiny hands, she broke off a long thorn from the gooseberry bush.
Behind her on the ground lay the big thorn with which she had set out to kill the Spider.
Then, feeling very brave indeed, she shouldered the thorn and flew back very slowly to the tuft.
But then she remembered that she had come to do a brave deed, and she held her big thorn tighter, and forced herself to look at the Spider as he struggled in the curds and whey.
He will not be able to fly away when I start to stab him," and she poised the thorn all ready for a vigorous thrust.
This parasite is characterized by a hooked proboscis or thorn at its anterior extremity, and the absence of a distinct digestive tract.
It is usually found with its proboscis or thorn imbedded in the wall of the small intestine.
Illustration: Boy pulling thorn out of a tigress's paw] 'No, no!
On each side was a great Thorn Gate for entrance, which is the manner in that Countrey: the Gates of the City are of the same.
But that she goes to this old thorn, The thorn which I've described to you, And there sits in a scarlet cloak, I will be sworn is true.
I cannot tell how this may be, But plain it is, the thorn is bound With heavy tufts of moss, that strive To drag it to the ground.
So close, you'd say that they were bent With plain and manifest intent, To drag it to the ground; And all had join'd in one endeavour To bury this poor thorn for ever.
Upon this occasion I will request permission to add a few words closely connected with THE THORN and many other Poems in these Volumes.
It opened behind the house among a clump of black-thorn and brushwood, and wis covered "with green turf in such a manner as to escape the notice of all who were not acquainted with the secret.
The wild rose-haws are reddening, and so are the clusters of berries on the thorn trees and bushes.
But at least I shall stay to watch the thorn trees load themselves with coral.
But Mount Dunstan knew that if he turned out Thorn and Fittle, whom no watching could wholly frustrate in their tricks, Under Mount Farm and Oakfield Rise would stand empty for many a year.
They both moved haltingly to the broken gate, and Betty fastened him to a thorn tree near it, where he stood on three feet, his fine head drooping.
Her steps--as clinging to thy hardier form, She treads thethorn and smiles upon the storm!
If pain can not from life depart, There's pain enough around us; The rose we wear upon the heart Should have no thorn to wound us.
A soft respect the orphan's steps attends, And the sharp thorn at least the rose defends.
This symbol of fraternity Bertram had wholly forgotten to provide; and, observing that in feet all the mourners carried one, he hesitated not to cut a stout bough out of the first thorn bush he happened to see.
It hath been said: "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
About this brook, and spreading out over the plain, were a number of bushes, mostly of the thorn kind, and not unlike what I have heard called the white thorn in some parts of the United States.
There was a little grass, and some thistles, and an almost innumerable multitude of snails about the roots of the weeds and small thorn bushes.
PUELLÆ Pluck love away as thou wouldst pluck a thorn From out thy flesh; for why shouldst thou be born To bear a life so wasted and forlorn?
For betwixt the oak-tree and the thorn Meseemeth erewhile was I born.
Let even the slug-abed snail upon the thorn Put forth a conscious horn!
All the spines upon the thorn into curling tendrils start.
From the fall precipitant These dim snatches of her chant[B] Only have remained mine;-- That from spear and thornalone May be grown For the front of saint or singer any divinizing twine.
On Golgotha there grew a thorn Round the long-prefigured Brows.
The dense thorn locked him, and she heard him and turned swiftly towards him.
Taking a grassy path, he went noiselessly down and presently was separated from his Audrey by the dense thorn that hedged the tiny glade in which he found her.
The roots of thethorn bushes and trees constantly impeded it, and had to be cut.
A black mass of mud-coated sticks, rotten twigs, and thorn bushes, entangled in the meshes, is often the only result of much toil.
The slope bounded the track on one side: on the other it was enclosed by a low bank covered with dead thorn thickly entangled, which enclosed the cornfields.
The tenant had the right to shoot, and he was always about in the turnips--a terrible thorn in the side of Dickon's friend.
The German planted region was destined to be a thorn in the side of Russia.
About 1225, a second military order established itself in Livonia, and built four considerable towns, among them Thorn and Koenigsberg, in the depopulated country.
You'll find him a thornin your side," she went on reflectively.
I stayed with the Coalitionists, though I was often a thorn in their side, but because I was also useful to them I bent them often towards the light.
This was surrounded by a very high and very broad stockade, composed of dry thorn boughs beaten together and interlaced.
But we soon distanced them, and reaching the bottom of the valley, where the thorn bushes grew thick, we slackened speed and, turning our heads back, jeered those who came on.
