prickly shrub
Example Sentences
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As she lowered herself to the ground, a prickly shrub grazed her thigh, and she jumped like a shot to her feet.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2011
And I beckoned him across the room to the window that overlooked a stiff prickly shrub.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
The only way to keep them off, is to cover the roof with a prickly shrub, the thorns of which stick to the flesh like fishhooks.
From Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Harrison Weir
There was a great deal, too, of a very uncomfortable prickly shrub, which they call Irishman, and which I do not like the look of at all.
From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Samuel Butler
A prickly shrub, from five to ten feet high, growing wild in this country and in Europe, on poor, hard soils, or in moist situations, by walls, stones, or fences.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
