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  • So, the expectation is of a touring party along lines of a mature version of the "Thistles" youth set-up which ventured across the world to take on Kiwi representative line-ups a few years ago.

    unknown title 2009

  • Hazards is a Decemberists unchained, free to wander in to things similar to stony prog-rock as good as twee folk, outspoken to give songs names similar to "The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle a Thistles Undone."

    The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery admin 2009

  • Thistles were cut out from one, roses from another, shamrocks and daffodils – some no bigger than a 5p piece – and arranged individually on to silk tulle for the Royal School of Needlework to appliqué.

    Duchess of Cambridge wedding dress steals the show at Buckingham Palace 2011

  • Hazards is a Decemberists unchained, free to wander in to things similar to stony prog-rock as good as twee folk, outspoken to give songs names similar to "The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle a Thistles Undone."

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Soon the '20s started to roar, and Edna St. Vincent Millay greeted the new decade with a book of poems called A Few Figs from Thistles, best known for the lines "My candle burns at both ends;/It will not last the night;/But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends -/It gives a lovely light."

    Rory O'Connor: Ponzi Democracy 2009

  • Unfortunately, Green died suddenly in January 1930, the year in which her first book, Kimshonim (Thistles), was published, dedicated “In memory of my friend Yitzhak Green.”

    Esther Raab. 2009

  • Her second book of poetry, A Few Figs and Thistles was published in 1920.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay greenintegerblog 2008

  • At Thistles, an Argentine restaurant in Bangor, owner Santiago Rave says that 10 or so Latin doctors new to the area regularly patronize his restaurant.

    Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In 2008

  • Thistles choke your ankles as you try to walk from the front gate to the door.

    My Yard T A T U M 2008

  • On the founding of houses of refuge for wayward children, in the 1820s, see Robert M. Mennel, Thorns and Thistles: Juvenile Delinquents in the United States, 1825-1940 1973, p.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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