And do you know what that sting or thorn is in Latin?. From Wordnik.com. [Sexagesima Sunday] Reference
This is what I call a thorn-letter: — “CAMBERWELL, June 4. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
He had lingered behind to pluck a thorn from the foot of a beggar child he had met on the highway, and he had not heard the Warder's words. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
Where noo tree vor a sheäde but the thorn is a-vound. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
What they liked most was the camel thorn, which is very abundant here. From Wordnik.com. [Three Months in the Soudan] Reference
There was a single letter for the "th" called a thorn, which looked somewhat like a y. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie's Farm] Reference
They were referred to as a thorn in the side of the bureaucracy; as zealots; as out of line. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
"Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
Joyce, holed up in his flooded home town of St George, cut through his colleagues 'attempts to call a thorn a rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
A rose always looks like a mediaeval gentleman of Italy, with a cloak of crimson and a sword: for the thorn is the sword of the rose. From Wordnik.com. [Alarms and Discursions] Reference
Paul would be a better man with the "thorn" than without it. From Wordnik.com. [The Kneeling Christian] Reference
Asked what the "thorn" had been, the president sighed: "Where do I begin?". From Wordnik.com. [Obama on 'View' shares ups and downs (Video)] Reference
And so they -- they were a kind of thorn in Lincoln's side because they were always lobbying him. From Wordnik.com. [A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead & America in the 19th Century] Reference
“And still the fragrant thorn is beautiful.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
It is also rendered "thorn" in 2 Chr. 33: 11; Prov. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Hebrew atad, Judg. 9: 14; rendered "thorn," Ps. 58: 9. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The theme has always been to render one of our "thorn". From Wordnik.com. [CGArena - Animation, 3D, Computer Graphics, Digital Artists] Reference
When we have explained what is meant at all by the "thorn," and who is this. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Paul, she says, had a "thorn" in his side, and asked the Lord what to do about it. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
In Job 41: 2 the Hebrew word is rendered "thorn," but in the Revised Version "hook.". From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Céline, understand your Thérèse, and let us accept cheerfully the thorn which is offered us. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse] Reference
He said he and his core group of supporters plan to act as a "thorn" in the side of the council. From Wordnik.com. [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference
Still, there is one little thorn in Cameron's side. From Wordnik.com. [Our Titanic Love Affair] Reference
“When they took that thorn out, I was a new person.”. From Wordnik.com. [To Cut Or Not To Cut] Reference
Pfc. Roberto Ybanez described women as "a thorn in my side.". From Wordnik.com. [Shrinking The Military] Reference
Rantisi has long been a thorn in the side of the Israeli government. From Wordnik.com. [Can The Roadmap Be Saved?] Reference
Maybe, for example, you could start by putting a message board on an old thorn tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Future Of Internet Cafes] Reference
But he still relishes his self-appointed role as perennial thorn in Washington's backside. From Wordnik.com. [Fun And Fidel] Reference
This failure was a recurrent issue at Baath meetings; it became a thorn in the party's side. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: VIETNAM REVISITED] Reference
"" The blood evidence is the biggest thorn in my side; that causes me the greatest problems. From Wordnik.com. [The Show Of Shows] Reference
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