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- proper noun A
topographic surname for someone living near athorn bush.
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Examples
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However, the Patrol force finally succeeded in working out a combination of the immersed-antenna and the semipermeable-condenser types, which they called the Thorn-dyke heavy-duty switch.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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K. does will identify with his despair and cheer him as he comes to share Poker Face Jace's conviction that "what you call a Thorn & a Curse is really a Blessing."
NYT > Home Page By PRISCILLA GILMAN 2012
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Can the Fables and the Literals unite to keep Kevin Thorn from writing them out of existence?
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The book opens where Old Man's Cave left off: the rat creatures and their human allies begin the assault on the Northern Valley's only stronghold while Fone Bone and his companions rescue Thorn from the Hooded One's sacrifice.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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The book opens where Old Man's Cave left off: the rat creatures and their human allies begin the assault on the Northern Valley's only stronghold while Fone Bone and his companions rescue Thorn from the Hooded One's sacrifice.
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The story lasts only a year, and based on the vague chronology, Thorn is around twenty when it takes place.
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Thorn is embarrassed to find one of her teeth has been knocked out, suggesting she cares about her appearance in front of Fone Bone.
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Thorn is perhaps one of the most underrated female voices in pop music, and it's great to have another solo disc from her.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The young woman Thorn is pretty and probably about twenty, with a chipper personality and exceptionally big hair.
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Fone Bone also metaphorically awakens Thorn from the overextended childhood in which her protective grandmother has kept her.
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