"Your father was a tortoise and your mother was a thornbush.". From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
Not even a thornbush grew in the stony soil surrounding it all. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
A similarly thick hedge of thornbush grew tall around the town. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
They scuffled across baked clay to the edge of a thornbush and backed apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
No footprints, no broken twigs, no tom bits of cloth hanging off a thornbush. From Wordnik.com. [Roger MacBride]
Caught in a leafless thornbush on one ridge was a sheet of yellowed newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Sea] Reference
Some areas have savanna woodland, monsoon forest, thornbush, and tropical scrub. From Wordnik.com. [Savanna Division (Bailey)] Reference
Besides, he had the bit of canvas to show, the scrap that he had taken from the thornbush. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
We neared the thornbush area where a series of dusty swales had been last June and halted. From Wordnik.com. [Huichol Voices] Reference
There was nothing but the rough earth, with only here and there a cactus or low thornbush. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference
The thornbush, flaming high, gave him light to see and stab a dopy joe creeping toward him. From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
"Great," said Welly, sitting by the thornbush cooking fire with all the others of the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference
Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. From Wordnik.com. [A Beggars Garden] Reference
"Well, you're a wizened old thornbush, but Zuwayza's got used to having you around," Ikhshid said. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
Conan eyed a thornbush, of which there were even fewer here than had been along the trail earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
The Sahel and Sudan zones consisting of thornbush and dry savanna as well as dry forest are located below the Sahara. From Wordnik.com. [1. Overview] Reference
"The scholastics derived the origin of the rose from the drops of Christ's blood falling upon a thornbush." (p. 43) and. From Wordnik.com. [Thematic Essay: The Rose] Reference
Nefer and Taita left the rest of their party lying in a patch of dense thornbush up in the valley and crept to the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Taking one quick look to make certain he was unobserved, he cached the meat beneath a thornbush on the edge of the encampment. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
He flung himself forward to stop Nikolai from sliding off, heedless of the thornbush Gracja's forward progress took him through. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
Well, do you see the low hill beyond with the thornbush upon it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference
Without waiting for breakfast, Rikki-tikki ran to the thornbush where. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Book] Reference
King had run into a thornbush, and was forced to leave his clothes behind him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
A Blackbird was piping away on a thornbush as if his heart was running over with happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Something tore at his leg as he brushed a thornbush, but he didn’t slow his speed. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference
The last was such an awful thought that Call couldn’t stay crouched in the thornbush. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference
Arrogant old thornbush, Fernao thought. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
"A temper like a thornbush, that one has.". From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Triumphant]
Cold sunlight sparkled on thornbush and sage. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
I see the thornbush getting green. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
(13) Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A thornbush. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairies and the Christmas Child] Reference
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