thorns

• “Too frightened to tell the truth, she said she had been injured by thorns from a date tree.”

  The Huffington Post: Catholic Relief Services: Help for Sri Lanka's Abused Maids

• “Nearby are images of Jesus in thorns and the Archangel.”

  The Virgin of Guadalupe appears to Juan Diego in a life-sized street shrine tucked into a narrow alley in San Miguel. Offerings and decorations on the sidewalk below are protected by a small railing. Nearby are images of Jesus in thorns and the Archangel. This original photograph forms part of the Olden Mexico collection. © Darian Day and Michael Fitzpatrick, 2009

• “The Traditional Values Coalition produced a “wanted poster” in which Jesus Christ, wearing a crown of thorns, is wanted for violating the proposed hate crimes bill.”

  Civil Rights

• “You cursed at my roses, growing over the porch rail, covering in thorns the very thing you needed to grab onto.”

  NPR: Three-Minute Fiction: Sneak Peak

• “She may have pulled it up right away had it not been covered in thorns as long as her fingernails and as wicked and sharp as knives.”

  The Sisters and the Seeds « A Fly in Amber

• “Even the tejamanil (flat pine shakes) ceiling was attached with the thorns from the tejocote tree.”

  The Meseta Purepecha

• “In Ixtapalapa a real crown of thorns is placed on the head of the actor portraying Jesus and thorny boughs are used to lash and whip him.”

  The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa, a Mexico City neighborhood

• “The other daters rushed over to the zombie cheerleaders and started beating them up with their books, wrapping the decorative fairy lights around their necks and scratching them with the thorns from the roses.”

  Archive 2007-03-01

• “As a result, there are hundreds of movement conservatives placed around the country as long-term thorns in the side of progressive governance.”

  Hullabaloo

• “There, tucked against a mass of nasty green-brier thorns, is where you're likely to find your buck's bed.”

  How to Hunt Trophy Bucks: Old Deer Require New Tactics

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