Crab } by reason of a thick-growth { Buckthorn } and repellant thorns and spines.
Mending gaps with thorns only aggravates the evil, as the living part of the fence is so interfered with by the dead matter that it grows but imperfectly, and the dead materials soon rot away, leaving a greater gap to be re-mended.
Its thorns render it thoroughly repellant to cattle.
It was true, the Abbe Pernot was walking, as fast as he could, to the Vincart farm, as unmindful of the dew that tarnished his shoe-buckles as of the thorns which attacked his calves.
Claudet's revelations had entirely upset his intentions, and planted fresh thornsof jealousy in his heart.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city," etc.
He who bore the thorns on His brow, the symbol of the curse which on account of man's sin rests upon Creation, will remove that curse in the day of His power.
Scarcely had he come to the wood when all the trees and thorns which had made such an impenetrable thicket opened on one side and the other to offer him a path.
That was needless, for in a quarter of an hour there had grown up about it a wood so thick and filled with thorns that nothing could get at the castle, and the castle top itself could only be seen from a great distance.
Over the country here grew small, scattered thorn trees, thick with thorns but with scarcely any leaves, so that the shade beneath them was thin and could shelter no more than one horse.
The rhino charged once just before the knot was tied, and Loveless had to jump into the branches through the thorns to escape.
A power from the unknown God, A Promethean conqueror, came; Like a triumphal path he trod The thorns of death and shame.
Love's rose a host of thorns invests; Cold, ungenial is the clime, Where its honours blow.
The journey was long and tedious, and the captives' feet were torn by the thorns and cut by the hard rocks over which they had to pass; but whenever they lagged behind they were urged on by the long spears of their relentless captors.
The shadow called Thorns was for bolting across country; but Lilly white was not built for speed.
And I will stick little thorns under his tongue, and I will cut off his eyelids with little scissors, and set him facing the sun.
An exclamation somewhat similar was uttered by Cicero, when, searching for the tomb of Archimedes in the neighbourhood of Syracuse he at length perceived it covered with thorns and brambles (Cic.
Since the first curse was pronounced upon the earth, the earth hath brought forth nothing but thorns and briars of contention, strife, sorrow, and vexation.
At least they are like the vanishing blaze of thorns under a pot, and therefore, when God is angry for sin, men’s beauty consumeth as before the moth, Psalm xxxix.
He can accomplish his good pleasure in thy behalf, either without or against means; all impediments and thorns set in his way, he can burn them up.
The corruptions of men’s flesh are so rank, that they overgrow all this seed of truth, and choke it, as the thorns did the seed, Matt.
By Gad, you'll have to exercise it, or, let me assure you, you will be sowing thorns for your children to reap.
We may know that our ancestors planted thorns and yet we seem surprised that we cannot gather a harvest of grapes, and we would fain gather figs from a planting of thistles.
In utter silence the sentries maintained a vigilant look-out, while their comrades either dozed fitfully or lay awake, shivering with cold, and on thorns of expectancy for the night attack.
The crystal will make stronger the union of petals, leaves, thorns and stem.
The leaves and thorns are to be made from angelique and attached by pressing them to the stem using the crystal, prepared for the dipping, as glue.
My Jesus, as thou wilt: If among thorns I go, Still sometimes here and there, Let a few roses blow.
No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
As Mowgli told Kaa, he had many little thorns under his tongue, and slowly and deliberately he drove the dholes from silence to growls, from growls to yells, and from yells to hoarse slavery ravings.
I have many little thorns under my tongue to prick into their hides.
Because she broke two 'or three of the thornswhen she jerked, and it was so late that their wounds are still bleeding, that is, a faint bit of sap is oozing out at the fractures.
When I found the cloth on the thorns I knelt and looked for a trail.
So the man said, "My wife, you must not come with me to the forest, for in the forest are fierce animals and thorns and difficulties and dangers.
So Ali broke the bottle, and the thorns got in their feet and delayed many of them, but the rest came on.
So I went with the thorns around my brow, and the shadow of the cross upon my breast.
The divine is doomed to suffering, and under the hays of the poet lurk ever the thorns of the self-immolator.
You know that what I say is true," he continued in quieter but no less intensely passionate accents--"You know that every day sees our Master crowned with new thorns and exposed to fresh torture!
Pollie told me, poor thing, that her children had been thorns in her side.
And that is why, I suppose, like Sleeping Beauty, I am so thickly hedged in with the thorns and briers of affection.
Illustration: The thorns closed in around her so that she was all scratched and torn] Then she laughed.
The sower encounters hard trodden ground, rocky patches, and spots where hardy thorns or thistles drain the soil and where his work produces only empty ears and futile beginnings.
She had so successfully trampled upon the thorns in her path that she could pause to enjoy the flowers.
Thus, hopeful for herself and her sisters, she started out upon a new road, which, smoother than any she had yet trodden, was not without its many thorns and pitfalls.
He had shaken off his emotion, as if he was ashamed of having ever given way to it; and had even o'erleaped himself so much that he assumed a sort of bitter mirth, like the crackling of thorns under a pot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thorns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
