thistles

• One of the thistles is the suggestion about the line Was it singing, was it saying, which you wrote so, and which I proposed to amend by an intermediate 'or.' —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
• All around the City of Thi grow countless thistles, and all we need do is to go and gather them. —  The Lost Princess of Oz
• It brought me down to bed rock, for I was making a conceited ass of myself that's all, in thinking I could have roses for fodder instead of thistles--and just for the asking! —  Flamsted quarries
• Thar war thistles, and cussed stingin' nettles, and briars as thick as my wrist, with claws upon them as sharp as fish-hooks. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• If the land had a growth of thistles, the weeders could wear three or four pairs of woollen stockings. —  Home Life in Colonial Days

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