thorn-tree

When I watch a male lion grooming his cubs or see a female leopard haul a carcass her own weight up a thorn-tree, I am mystified that some people take pleasure in killing their kind with a high-powered rifle.

Panthera: Hunting Lions: Unpalatable but Necessary for Conservation? Panthera 2011

When I watch a male lion grooming his cubs or see a female leopard haul a carcass her own weight up a thorn-tree, I am mystified that some people take pleasure in killing their kind with a high-powered rifle.

Panthera: Hunting Lions: Unpalatable but Necessary for Conservation? Panthera 2011

So she dragged herself into the shade of a thorn-tree, and let her body sink unto the ground, and lay there long unwitting.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

You remember how by that thorn-tree and pool, where the geese were performing a prodigious evening concert, there might be seen, at a certain hour, somebody in a certain cloak and bonnet, who happened to be coming from a village yonder, and whose image has flickered in that pool.

Roundabout Papers 2006

The boy rose; he looked at his little mate, looked at the bird, and began quietly to move toward it; but uttering again its queer call, the bird glided on to a third thorn-tree.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

Straight in front of them was a magpie, balancing itself on a stripped twig of thorn-tree.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

On the summit I was shown an object that makes travellers shudder, a thorn-tree, under which the Habr Gerhajis

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Its use has reduced pressure for the use of live and dead thorn-tree branches.

1. Household gardening projects in asia: past experience and future directions 1992

The plateau itself was only a few hundred meters wide, fuzzed with brush, and walled at the northern end by thorn-tree brambles.

The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

Why, there it stands to this very day, just on the edge of the slope, and I saw it not three weeks since — an old single thorn-tree, "marvellous stumpy."

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971