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.”

  The Huffington Post: Panthera: Hunting Lions: Unpalatable but Necessary for Conservation?

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Does he think nobody ever saw the "single thorn-tree" but himself?”

  Tom Brown's Schooldays

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