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Definition of Thistles
1. thistle [n] - See also: thistle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thistles
Literary usage of Thistles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania: From the Year One Thousand Seven by John Purdon, Frederick Charles Brightly (1887)
"Canada thistles to bo destroyed. Fine. 3. To destroy thistles in public roads.
Unseated Land«. und supervisor. 4. Publication of quarterly reporta. 2. ..."
2. In a Gloucestershire Garden by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1896)
"In this way he showed his contempt for thistles and brambles, but he was, ...
In the Bible, thistles and brambles are always spoken of as the proverbial ..."
3. In a Gloucestershire Garden by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1895)
"In this way he showed his contempt for thistles and brambles, but he was, ...
In the Bible, thistles and brambles are always spoken of as the proverbial ..."
4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1845)
"CANADA thistles. I was glad to see in a late number < f the Cultivator the remarks
on this weed; and more particularly (he caution against Us introduction ..."
5. Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers by Bertha Marguerite Rice, Roland Rice (1920)
"thistles By Roland Rice "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
... It seems to be in the Bible that the first mention of thistles is to be ..."
6. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"thistles. It really might have been thought that I had now given an account of
all the vegetable productions that are held in any degree of esteem, ..."
7. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"THORNS AND thistles Several varieties of the egg-plant are found In Palestine,
and some have ... 18, " Do men gather figs of thistles?" See also Heb. vi. ..."
8. In a Gloucestershire Garden by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1895)
"In this way he showed his contempt for thistles and brambles, but he was, ...
In the Bible, thistles and brambles are always spoken of as the proverbial ..."
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