From this setting issue spirals of white-belled convolvulus, twigs of pink rest-harrow mingled with. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
He lay staring at the grass, covered with tiny blossoms of self-heal and rest-harrow: behind and a hundred feet below him the sea swirled, its deep peacock hue patterned with milky wreaths of foam; half around him reared a semi-circle of pale cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Shrubs: busk and adjectival bosky; rest-harrow, rone, and Scand whin. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
I saw rest-harrow which has a root like whipcord, and the flat thistle which thrives in dust. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
Now follows the gorse, and the pink rest-harrow, and the sweet lady's-bedstraw, set as it were in the midst of a little thorn-bush. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
The cliff was a tangle of flowers above and below, with poppies at the lip being blown out like red flame, and scabious leaning inquisitively to look down, and pink and white rest-harrow everywhere, very pretty. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
From this setting issue spirals of white-belled convolvulus, twigs of pink rest-harrow mingled with a few ferns, and a few young oak-shoots having magnificently coloured leaves; all advance bowing themselves, humble as weeping willows, timid and suppliant as prayers. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
Birds'-foot lotus covered the sward of one part of the Cuckoo-fields, on the higher ground near the woods, where the soil was dry; and by the hedge there were some bushy plants of the rest-harrow, whose prickly branches repel cattle and whose appearance reproaches the farmer for neglect. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
Through rest-harrow and bitter roots. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Hours with Poet Preachers] Reference
Its translation as "thistles" or "nettles" is unsuitable, for these plants do not reach the proportions required by Job, xxx, 7, hence it is generally believed to be either the acanth, Acanthus spinosus, or rest-harrow, two species of which, Onamis antiquarum, and particularly O. leiosperma. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
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