thorn

• The tiniest drop that hangs upon the tip of a thorn will be as perfect a sphere as the sun, and it will have its little rainbow on its round, with all the prismatic colours, the same in tint and order and loveliness, as when the bow spans the heavens. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• The simpler mode of dressing them is to spit a number together on a piece of stick or a long orange-thorn, and roast them before the fire in their own fat. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852
• They bethought themselves of a blackthorn near one of their villages; and this thorn was for the nonce declared to be the growth of a slip from the Christmas-flowering thorn at Glastonbury. —  Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
• As this thorn is much used by the blacks in Voodoo, I suppose that it was all explained by being set down to my "conjurin The maid who attended to my room was a very nice, good girl, but one who could not have been understood in England. —  Memoirs
• The cottage was very old, and the rose-thorn was the growth of centuries. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida

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