Also I am an accountant, an amanuensis, and a cocklebur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Mountain]

It rankled in his mind like a cocklebur, raising question after question.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Of Honour]

The light infantry will be hidden in the switchgrass, and, hopefully, avoiding the cocklebur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Circle] Reference

Inculcating and deluding the masses with a multi-billion dollar barrage of agitprop and sophistry potent enough to penetrate the minds of the most adroit thinkers, the moneyed interests behind corporatism and exploitative Capitalism have created a false dichotomy that clings to our collective psyche like a cocklebur deeply embedded in a wool sock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton Lost: Can We Regain Paradise?] Reference

The store owner said, "He's sitting on a cocklebur.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Questing Parson] Reference

To that the stranger asked, "Why doesn't he get off the cocklebur?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Questing Parson] Reference

This is contrary to belief that the common cocklebur was introduced into New Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference

If cockleburs cling to fabric, perhaps you could make an artificial cocklebur from plastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

Ignite also controls Palmer amaranth, woolly cupgrass, velvetleaf, cocklebur, foxtails, ragweeds and waterhemp, along with ALS-resistant and glyphosate-resistant weeds, according to Bayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Farm Press RSS Feed] Reference

The desmodium, the bidens, the agrimony and the cocklebur, which stick to your clothes even as late as February, are only using you as a Moses to lead their children to their promised land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Winter Days in Iowa] Reference

In the new form, which is similar in all other respects to the common cocklebur, the burs are more slender and the prickles much less numerous, about 25 to the bur and mostly stouter at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Prior to amassing his banking empire, Pohlad started out clearing cocklebur from Iowa farms for 25 cents an hour with friends and delivering the laundry that his mother washed for the town's wealthier people.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

Titus: what kind of burr? the cocklebur is extremely toxic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vlog?] Reference

Eight to five you never heard the word amanuensis and you never saw a cocklebur.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Mountain]

The offending cocklebur lodged itself in the dog’s intestine and eventually had to be removed surgically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncategorized Blog Posts] Reference

You’re a real smart girl, she added, reaching for a cocklebur on the child’s dress tail; but Cassie had darted out of arm’s reach, and was now tiptoeing for a late-hanging crimson saw-brier leaf near the tumble-down rail fence by the lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dollmaker] Reference

Looks like a cocklebur to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A morning's blog...] Reference

My shirt stuck to me like a cocklebur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

The cocklebur states will make out like bandits.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. News] Reference