Sentence example with the word 'thistle'

thistle

armory, brassard, catchweed, cross, figurehead, livery, nettle, ring, spicule, swastika, yucca

Definition n. any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves

Last update: July 1, 2015


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The gardener planted thistle in the garden.   [Please select]

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Shamrock and Thistle; or, Young America in Ireland and Scotland.   [Please select]

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SHAMROCK AND THISTLE; Or, Young America in Ireland and Scotland.   [Please select]

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"He lit on a big Scotch thistle," said Uncle Roger, chuckling, "and besides that, he skinned his forehead on a stone."   [Please select]

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Then rode Geraint into the castle court, His charger trampling many a prickly star Of sprouted thistle on the broken stones.   [Please select]

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He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.   [Please select]

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Barnaby's thistle; between the rich silvery fleece of the woolly sage and the short hairs of the everlasting.   [Please select]

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The nest is usually built in a cardoon thistle, two or three feet above the ground, and is made of dry grass.   [Please select]

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Sometimes they breed on the open plain in a large cardoon thistle, but a thick bush or low tree is preferred.   [Please select]

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Occasionally they perch on a thistle-top or low bush, but never on trees.   [Please select]

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The nest is made of dry grass in a thistle-bush or clump of reeds, and is rather deep and cup-shaped.   [Please select]

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