Thesaurus / thistle
FEEDBACK- brier
- burr
- cleaver
- furze
- gorse
- hedge
- nettle
- prick
- shrub
- spray
- thorn
- catch weed
- goose grass
- prickly shrub
- thistle sage
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How to use thistle in a sentence
The case was different in 'Thistle's' year, that vessel having a really splendid lot of sticks.
YACHTING VOL. 2VARIOUS.Lady Baird has sent the veil, and a wonderful diamond thistle to pin it on,—a jewel fit for a princess!
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINSo saying, he again relapsed into silence, and commenced whipping at the thistle tops and dandelions.
THE ENGLISH ORPHANSMARY JANE HOLMESFrom holy or blessed thistle (Carduus Benedictus) by displacement with cold water.
COOLEY'S CYCLOPDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION IN THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, PROFESSIONS, AND TRADES..., SIXTH EDITION, VOLUME IARNOLD COOLEYSuddenly Polly broke away, pulled up an iron-weed growing on the road-side, and fell to whipping a large purple thistle.
THAT OLD-TIME CHILD, ROBERTASOPHIE FOX SEAHe knew that the next field was a thistle-field, and was separated from the chestnut by a long, deep ditch.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAUPrithee, now, how many such butterflies as you suck here together on the thistle-head of royalty?
THE SAINT'S TRAGEDYCHARLES KINGSLEYIt offers thistle plants (or whatever is the flower that makes such delicate ashes) to the tops of many thousand hills.
CERES' RUNAWAYALICE MEYNELLAs well look for a burr thistle in a bin of oats, as look for a human atom in the Cowgate and the wynds "juist aff."
GREYFRIARS BOBBYELEANOR ATKINSONThe thistle is the order for dignity and antiquity; the veritable 'nemo me impune lacessit' of chivalry.
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANSJAMES FENIMORE COOPERWORDS RELATED TO THISTLE
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.