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
She looked down at the chain of great jewels, and the fragment of prickly shrub with its poppy-shaped yellow flower.
From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson
After three hours they reached a plain of alternating sand and rocks, where nothing grew except some prickly shrub.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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 Butler, Samuel
I ploughed my way through deep sand, or stepped from boulder to boulder, or crushed through miles of sea-holly and prickly shrub.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen
