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Definition of Thornier
1. thorny [adj] - See also: thorny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thornier
Literary usage of Thornier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Miles Byrne by Miles Byrne (1907)
"At the same time Generals Solignac and thornier having assembled the officers of
the 3rd battalion of the Irish regiment ..."
2. Pericles: Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare (1913)
"Boult, take her away; use her at thy 150 pleasure. Crack the glass of her virginity,
and make the rest malleable. Boult. An if she were a thornier piece of ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... w:as on the surface incomparably colder, harsher and thornier than his father,
with all the socially repellent traits of the race and none of the softer ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Ir thou wise wolt demen, in thy pure thought, the rightes or the lawes of the
hie thornier, that is to eain of God, looke thou and beholde the ..."
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