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Definition of Thornbushes
1. thornbush [n] - See also: thornbush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thornbushes
Literary usage of Thornbushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... and dressed her child in patchwork therefrom ; and the wool left on the
thornbushes by the sheep was regularly gleaned, spun, and then sent to some ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1908)
"... and of the parties, the}' went round the above-named places and marked them
with stakes and stones on the shore in five places from the thornbushes ..."
3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1893)
"when the meadows •were yellow with the crowfoot, flushed with the sorrel, or
purple with clover ; the thornbushes, white or pink with their blossoms ..."
4. The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and by Lodovico de Varthema, John Winter Jones, George Percy Badger (1863)
"... there were six or eight feet of beautiful thornbushes, in which we found two
turtledoves, which circumstance appeared to us like a miracle, ..."
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