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Definition of Thorniest
1. thorny [adj] - See also: thorny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thorniest
Literary usage of Thorniest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Has grown and grown, and with her mellow shade Has blanched my thorniest thoughts
to her own hue. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"These, and the discredited First Part I of Jeronimo, still supply some of the
thorniest problems to Elizabethan scholarship. Here, only a partial statement ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"BELL, ALEXANDER MONTGOME- j those in practice will find information sufficient
to guide them, and to guide them in safety, along the thorniest and most ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"The plain seemed to be covered with nothing but the thorniest and wildest of
acacia and ghastly ..."
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