In the way of fruit-bearing shade trees he recommends sugar maple, flowering dogwood, white and cockspur thorn, native red mulberry, tupelo, black cherry, choke cherry, and mountain ash.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bird Study Book] Reference

Joshua Siskin: A cockspur coral tree thrives in Sherman Oaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

We picked nearly a barrelful of cockspur roots from the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

Grade 7 (£31,102 - £35,776). oceanic house, cockspur street, london w1y 5bg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

20: 51 PM PDT Against all odds, a cockspur coral tree is thriving in Sherman Oaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Head of Casework independent police complaints commission. oceanic house, cockspur street, london w1y 5bg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The little lady hath no shoon, no skirt that holds together, save by the grace of cockspur thorns that bind the tatters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Children] Reference

Large plains, with thorny jungles and bushes of the long cockspur thorn interspersed, formed the character of the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon]

The peas are bearing well and the grass is very high, and it will make splendid hay, but I will not mow it until I feel sure there is not a single cockspur left.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

Tourist killed by 'dinosaur-sized' shark off South African beach South Africa v England - day one as it happened | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth oceanic house, cockspur street, london w1y 5bg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

There is a tradition that during the war of the Revolution the long spines of the thorn were occasionally used by the American women for pins, none of which were manufactured in the country; probably it was the cockspur variety, which bears the longest and most slender spines, and is now in flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

We very soon bagged three or four brace a-piece of jungle fowl and pea fowl, as well as some black and red partridges, a hare, some pigeons, and two little mouse deer; when in a grassy hollow before us, surrounded by jungle, and interspersed with bushes of the long cockspur thorn, we saw a herd of fifty or more deer feeding quietly and not aware of our approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Voyage to Southern Seas] Reference

£16.99 with free UK delivery oceanic house, cockspur street, london w1y 5bg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

My garments, Euan, are like to fall from me if these green cockspur thorns give way. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Children] Reference

She promised speedy rescue, and hurried down, hoping to seize the culprit in the hall, but he had whipped out at the back-door, and was making for the garden gate, when his father hastened down the path to meet him, and seeing his retreat cut off, he plunged into the bushes, and sprang like a cat up a cockspur-thorn, too slender for ascent by a heavier weight, and thence grinned and waved his hand to his prisoner at the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference