thorn-trees

The said dale was so, that whatsoever was on the other side thereof was hidden by tall and great trees, that stood close together some twenty yards aloof from the stream, and betwixt them and it was fair greensward with a few bushes and thorn-trees thereon.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

The most wonderful thing was that it and a German airship five hundred yards below were threaded as it were on the lightning flash, which turned out of its path as if to take them, and, that out from the corners and projecting points of its huge wings everywhere, little branching thorn-trees of lightning were streaming.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Between the hills and the jungle lay a broad expanse of rough, uneven grasslands, dotted here and there by clumps of thorn-trees.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

After that the ground grew rough with boulders and patches of thorn-trees, splendid cover where he could move fast without worrying.

Greenmantle 2005

The thin forest reminded me of the wooded slopes of the Anti – Libanus about El – Kunaytarah: there, however, terebinths and holm-oaks take the place of these unlovely and uncomfortable thorn-trees.

The Land of Midian 2003

Umm el-Karáyat: 215 it begins, as is here the rule, with a gravelly bed, nice riding enough; it then breaks into ugly rocky drops and slides, especially at the hill shoulders, where thorn-trees and other obstacles often suggest that it is better to dismount; and, finally, when nearing the mouth, it becomes a matured copy of its upper self on an enlarged scale.

The Land of Midian 2003

A thick hedge of thorn-trees surrounds the only cultivated ground near Zayla: as Ibn Said declared in old times, “the people have no gardens, and know nothing of fruits.”

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Of these torrent-beds some were yellow, others pink, and others faint sickly green with decomposed trap; whilst all bore a fair growth of thorn-trees — Acacias and Mimosas.

The Land of Midian 2003

We rested till noon in the filmy shade of the thorn-trees.

The Land of Midian 2003

Here the amount of green surface, and the number of birds, especially the blue-rock and the insect-impaling “butcher,” whose nests were in the thin forest of thorn-trees, argue that water is not far off.

The Land of Midian 2003