thorns,

That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,

The Third part of King Henry the Sixth 2004

As spring's more sweet than winter, grapes than thorns,

Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus

Yet hast not gather'd fruit, -- save rankling thorns,

The Christian Home Samuel Philips

QUOTATION: A rosebud set with little wilful thorns,

Quotations 1919

That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns,

Act III. Scene II. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth 1914

Y: (They will be) among Lote-trees without thorns,

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

Pomp strips herself of her garments, and Voluptuousness (Voluptas) fears not to tread upon thorns,

A Mere Accident 1892

My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,

The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

I'm also fond of bashfulness, and sitting down on thorns,

More Bab Ballads 1873