thistle

In order to secure the grave against secret disturbance, it was sown with thistles. At the end of three months, the Mind Reader lost his money.

The plain here looked like that around Buenos Ayres; the turf being short and bright green, with beds of clover and thistles, and with bizcacha holes.

I like to lie here where the children play, beside the ruined wall, among thistles and red poppies.

Then came a little valley overgrown with the pale purple bloom of thistles and elusively haunted with their perfume.

again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with

Russian thistles were blowing across the uplands and piling against the wire fences like barricades.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

It begun then--at the time of the trouble with her lover," nodded Old Tom; "and it seems as if she'd been feedin' on wormwood an' thistles ever since--she's that bitter an' prickly ter deal with."

I am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms.

For certainly grapes (as the Scripture saith) will not be gathered of thorns or thistles; either can justice yield her fruit with sweetness, amongst the briars and brambles of catching and polling clerks, and ministers.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

"Now, dear Thistle, do not harm these friendly blossoms," said Lily-Bell; "see how kindly they spread their leaves, and offer us their dew.