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Thorn   /θɔrn/   Listen
Thorn

noun
1.
Something that causes irritation and annoyance.  Synonym: irritant.
2.
A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.  Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker.
3.
A Germanic character of runic origin.



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"Thorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... meadows green, And through the brake and thorn, And there did he the maiden find, She drove her ...
— Tord of Hafsborough - and Other Ballads • Anonymous
... Telling over proverbs that the tribal wisemen teach, Brother promising blood-brother partnership in weal and woe - Nightlong stories of the runners come from spying on the foe - Nights of boasting by the thorn-fire of the coming tale of slain - Oh the times before the English! When will those times ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... easily, so pleasantly on mountains and in the fields. Oh, once I was thirsty; but now the dew is mine and the little springs. Once I traced my way painfully by forest paths through bog and brake and tangled brier. But now my pathways are in the bright, clear air, where never thorn can tear nor beast can follow. Farewell, dear father! I am ...
— The Curious Book of Birds • Abbie Farwell Brown
... receptacle opened, a sort of false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags—a blue linen blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at the epoch when he passed through D——in October, 1815, could easily have recognized all the pieces ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... ten miles from the mouth of the harbour, and three from the mainland, had long been a thorn in the side of Bombay trade. At the time of the first occupation of Bombay it was uninhabited. In 1679 it was suddenly occupied by Sivajee, who began to fortify it. The danger of this to Bombay was at once seen, and part of the garrison was sent in small vessels, afterwards reinforced ...
— The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago • John Biddulph


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