As yet there's not a rub of wit, a gulf of thought, No rocky misconstruction, thorny maze, Or other let of any doubtfulness.
The origin of such a belief it is not easy to ascertain, but we suspect Sir Thomas Browne was not far from the truth when he pointed to the fact that the nightingale frequents thorny copses, and builds her nest amongst brambles on the ground.
Misprints taking wrong numbers by the hand, black andthorny creatures, dance their wild dance round him.
These tender and delicate, exquisitely beautiful bulbs flourish amongst the succulent Euphorbias and Mesembryanthemums, between the hedgehog-like thorny plants and the woody little densely-branched mats of the permanent flora.
But here and there the thorny trees of the "Seyal".
Where not irrigated, the soil is dry and parched and can only carry a few miserable little thorny bushes.
Amongst foreign thorny and spiny plants it is very difficult to make a selection.
There is still some uncertainty as to the exact way in which animals set to work when they are eating thorny or spiny bushes.
Deer, antelopes, and other animals get their hoofs entangled in the fruit, and the wretched creatures have to limp about until the hard thorny fruit is trodden to pieces.
These long-necked creatures can see far above the usual short thorny bush, and it is exceeding difficult to get near them.
Let her depart--to walk the thorny path of which he had reached the end, to climb the painful steeps of which he stood at the summit, to labour along the weary road which he would tread no more.
Perhaps the prestige of Elizabeth's will remained potent, even after Elizabeth was dead; perhaps Edward Seymour had no wish to occupy such a thorny seat as the throne of England.
The thorny spray is torn off, and fixes itself in its hairy coat, until brushed off again in other thickets and copses.
Oftentimes we see some herb which has flowered in the midst of a thorny shrub, when all the other individuals of the same species, in the open fields around, are eaten down, and cannot bring their seed to maturity.
When pursuing his heavenward journey through this vale of tears, the prospect often appears uninviting and gloomy, the sky dark and troubled, and the way, always narrow, becomes sometimes a thorny and tangled path.
Palms and huge ferns, broad-leaved bananas, and giant trees laced and interlaced with thorny vines and hanging creepers formed a living wall of green as impenetrable as though it were a net of steel.
However, the dense growth of sword grass and the thorny bushes which clothe the hills and choke the ravines give cover to muntjac, or barking deer, and many species of small cats, civets, and other Viverines.
At last we located them on the precipitous side of a deep gorge filled with an impenetrable jungle of palms and thorny plants.
For two miles and a half the Big Ravine is a narrow cut between perpendicular rock walls thickly clothed to their very summits with bamboo and a tangle of thorny vines.
Although the same troop could usually be found in the valley where we had first discovered them, they chose hillsides where it was almost impossible to stalk them because of the thorny jungle.
It was a wild place which seemed to have been cut out of the mountain side with two strokes of a mighty ax and was choked with a tangle of thorny vines and sword grass.
They were horsemen, accustomed to go either up or down hill at full speed, whose ordinary equipment enabled them to gallop unharmed through thorny brushwood.
The west of this plain consists of a series of downs, with some low hills, covered with natural grasses and occasional clumps of thorny trees.
The one bright hope that upheld us, the one beautiful dream that dragged weary footsteps southward over that waterless, thorny desert was the occupation of the brewery.
But if you hit and follow the bull through the thorny bush, you do not even then know whether you will find the victim.
At last the two, master and boy, arose, and climbing the farther slope to the tunal, began to skirt that spiked and thorny circlet, moving warily because to the core it was envenomed.
To the right and the left rose the impenetrable wood; before them wound a path thorny and difficult, where not more than three men might go abreast; beyond, was the mass of the fortress.
Spanish soldiery appeared before the battery, and, according to the tactics of the time, began to make thorny with abattis, poisoned stakes, and other devices the way of the enemy across the open space which it guarded.
But this policy promised to lead through a thorny path, and to what?
The central peak is entirely destitute of vegetation, with the exception of a few thorny bushes that seem to cling there in utter hopelessness.
In the very poorest of these there is merely one apartment, and a shed for cattle, and the court or yard is surrounded with a hedge of thorny boughs, having only one court, of a far superior kind.
Let us assume that I undertake this--thorny commission; how do I know that you will give me the jar of pomade then?
Do we not see flowers whose perfume intoxicates us and whose gorgeous colors dazzle our eyes, blooming upon stunted, thorny stalks?
Rough sorrow's thorny fingers grow As soft and waxen as a child's, And balmy pleasures o'er the wilds Chant music to the drifting snow.
Here and there he had noticed a rattler lurking in the shade of a rock or partly concealed under the thorny blade of a sprawling cactus; and he had seen a sage hen nestling in the hot sand.
It was dotted with mesquite, sage, and here and there the thorny blade of a cactus rose.
They lead a solitary life among the scarped rocks and in the thorny bushes bordering on the glaciers.
The banks of the rivers Mokolo and Zouga, and the shores of Lake Ngami, are covered with herbs and small thorny stunted bushes, including the Acacia detinens.
On the coast of the Red Sea, the oriental slopes only present at their base a few scattered thickets chiefly composed of thorny shrubs and the Leguminosae.
Nor is the harvest safe although the thorny shade that overhangs it be not completely impervious and constant.
Having learned this lesson from his lips, we go away grateful for his pungent, deeply-traced, and memorable warnings, without pausing to examine minutely the glad prospect to which our thorny path has led.
No thornyjungles and rank-smelling swamps are to daunt the hunter, and to sicken his aspirations after true sport.
How petty and insignificant appeared my hunts after small antelope and wild boar; what a foolish waste of energies, those long walks through damp grasses and thorny jungles.
From the summit of the hills a desert stretches along to the Lake Asphaltites, presenting nothing but stones and ashes, and a fewthorny shrubs.
It grows two or three leagues from the mouth of the Jordan, and is of a thorny appearance, with small tapering leaves.
He was quietly amused when he returned from his long walk on Christmas day to find his grandfather and the young minister engaged in a heated argument on the barren and thornysubject of verbal inspiration.
He had traversed all the barren and thorny waste, and much more carefully than Rufus had ever done.
But voluntarily he renounced her, and chose to tread the thorny path, at whose distant, far distant end beckoned the fulfilment of his ideals.
He could supply a large English country town with goods; chests of needles, walls built up of paper, acres of that muslin stuff you wear, so suitable to the thorny bush.
Before the first gleam of day, while the moon yet lighted up the heavens, the impatient travellers set out to cross the bush; and for more than two hours the long cavalcade wound with toil and difficulty through the tangled thorny bush.
About twelve feet below them another shelf of rock projected, wider than that on which they now stood; but how to reach it was a puzzling question, for the descent was perpendicular, and quite overgrown with thorny bushes.
This formidable thorny brushwood forms, in fact, the boundary and defence on this side, neither easy nor desirable to penetrate.
