He was looking for chaffinches' nests in the big whitethorn hedge at the back of Ballymore Rectory, when he suddenly spied a rat.
They nestled side by side under the old whitethorn which, for once in a way, forgot to moan as the wind went down.
In winter its bright shining leaves reflecting the sunlight enliven the woods, so that we never get the bare and cheerless look of places where the elm and the whitethorn hedge dominate the landscape.
The quickset or whitethorn (May) makes the strongest and most impervious hedge, and it flourishes amazingly on the stiff clay soils of the Lias formation in that county and its neighbour Worcestershire.
Saddle the wild filly--meet me under the whitethorn bush at the end of the lawn, and we'll both leave him for ever.
Then I went to Brett's lodgings in Whitethorn Gardens.
An hour before I had broken into his rooms at 41 Whitethorn Gardens, for the purpose of making sure about him.
When she reached the end of Whitethorn Gardens she turned to the right along the sea front.
When they reached 41 Whitethorn Gardens, she opened the gate, and walked up to the house rapidly.
This custom is now disused, not so much from the reluctance of the masters to give the reward, as from the inability of the servants to find the Whitethorn in flower.
Nor must we omit to mention that the Whitethorn is one of the trees that claims to have been used for the sacred Crown of Thorns.
If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree, The whitethorn or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.
May, And June, and thewhitethorn and the hay, And the violet, and then the rose, and all sweet things are coming.
The caterpillar feeds on many trees, the principal of which are the oak, whitethorn and blackthorn.
It feeds on oak (Quercus Robur) and whitethorn (Crataegus oxyacantha), and may be found in June.
Fergus and Reilly immediately planted themselves behind a whitethorn hedge, in a field adjoining the cabin, in order to reconnoitre the party, whoever they might be, which they could do in safety.
Whitethorn 2 } Now, here is a tall hedge on the north side of our field, and so capable of affording no slight amount of shelter to stock; but how much southern sun does it keep off our neighbour’s field!
A more minute inquiry into the natural history and mode of operation of hedge-row weeds will be best preceded by a list of such plants as may be considered to act as weeds in a properly planted whitethorn hedge.
In Swabia it is said that an apple plucked from a graft on the whitethorn will, if eaten by a pregnant woman, increase her pains.
If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree, That whitethorn or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.
I walk with my true love adown the green vale, The light feathered grasses keep tapping her shoe; In the whitethorn the nightingale sings her sweet tale, And the blades of the grasses are sprinkled with dew.
And after he died, every day for a year she'd go to the whitethorn tree, and it is there she'd cry her fill.
He was sick a long time, and there was a whitethorn tree out in the field, and he'd go and lie under it for shade from the sun.
The young Laird of Whitethorn had grown up at his English school and German university without the cloud which rested on his father's end descending on his spirit.
And this is the thorn walk, Joanna, and I am free to re-enact the old passage in two lives, and plead with you not to desert Whitethorn if we are to retain it.
The Hawfinch builds in various kinds of trees and at various heights; sometimes its nest is found quite exposed in a whitethorn bush, or on the horizontal branch of an oak.
The Hawthorn has for centuries borne in England the favourite name of "May," from its flowering in that month: "Between the leaves the silver Whitethorn shows Its dewy blossoms pure as mountain snows.
The Whitethorn or Hawthorn has long had the reputation of being a sacred tree, and the plant which had the mournful distinction of supplying the crown of Thorns worn by our Saviour at His crucifixion.
A whitethorn without spike or spine gracefully wept floods of blonde tears.
And they told how the fair whitethorn hedge was blasted for ten yards about the spot where the Death Angel had waited for the blasphemer.
So for a while we sat on the terrace, and a kind of scentless, spineless whitethorn wept sprays of flowers upon us.
The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whitethorn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
