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- noun Plural form of
thistle .
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Examples
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To think how few days before that happy Sunday Greek Helen and I had been ruthlessly eliminating Scotch thistles from the paddock in Strathardle!
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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The day we have sentient thistles, is the day I drop a bottle of sleeping pills to ensure I avoid the coming storm.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A little hairy dude for your enjoyment… 2008
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One of the thistles is the suggestion about the line
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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One of the thistles is the suggestion about the line
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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So, too, while in our meadows we purposely propagate tender fodder plants, like grasses and clovers, we find on the margins of our pastures and by our roadsides only protected species; such as thistles, houndstongue, cuckoo-pint, charlock, nettles
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Sam. 13: 6; "thistles" in 2 Kings 14: 9, 2 Chr. 25: 18, Job 31: 40;
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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As soil temperatures rise, there will be more warm-season weeds such as thistles and wooly croton.
Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010
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As soil temperatures rise, there will be more warm-season weeds such as thistles and wooly croton.
Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010
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As soil temperatures rise, there will be more warm-season weeds such as thistles and wooly croton.
Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010
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I'm honestly trying to understand what you are requesting. thought it was there already until Dana recently re-opened it with his deletion of the plague section and querying of the 'thistles'.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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