chestnut-bur

Now, Rosalie's cousin Hetty was as plain as a chestnut-bur.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

"You've got the champion chestnut-bur of the school -- aren't you full of prickles?"

The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907

So far their classmate had been somewhat of a chestnut-bur, and nobody in the Transition had ever penetrated her husk of reserve.

The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907

Her hair was the color that lines a chestnut-bur; her eyes were blue in the sunlight and purple in the shade; her cheeks bloomed with the faint pink that edges the clouds at sunset; her lips were full red, pouting and sweet.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Lyman Frank 1902

He picked up a chestnut-bur and opened it, extending the plump chestnuts to her.

The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

Her hair, in a thick braid, was the tone of the heart of a chestnut-bur, and her eyes were of that mystifying hazel, sometimes brown, sometimes gray, according to whether the sky was clear or overcast.

The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath 1901

Her hair was the color that lines a chestnut-bur; her eyes were blue in the sunlight and purple in the shade; her cheeks bloomed with the faint pink that edges the clouds at sunset; her lips were full red, pouting and sweet.

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus 1887

a rough chestnut-bur to the skirts of its respectability, and settling like a pertinacious gad-fly on the sore places of its conscience.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

a rough chestnut-bur to the skirts of its respectability, and settling like a pertinacious gad-fly on the sore places of its conscience.

The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

a rough chestnut-bur to the skirts of its respectability, and settling like a pertinacious gad-fly on the sore places of its conscience.

The Inner Life, Part 3, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism John Greenleaf Whittier 1849