Thistles
[θɪsəlz]
Examples
- As new as eating thistles, would have been an answer to represent Mr. Casaubon's feelings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where grapes are gathered from thorns, and figs from thistles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He no more gathers grapes from thorns or figs from thistles than older men did in old times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have certainly got thistles for figs in a worldly sense, but how could I tell what time would bring forth? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among these are kaffir corn, sorghum, alfalfa, clover, millet, cowpeas, soy-beans, sugar beets, oats and even weeds and thistles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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