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And also, I do not wish to be hurled bodily into a clump of any sort of thorn-bearing vegetation. joe from Lowell says:

Matthew Yglesias » Lincoln Slams Mythical Liberal Extremists 2010

The jungle presented an impassable wall of dense vegetation on either side, the undergrowth and trees being matted together by the stout, interminable strands of the rattan and other tenacious creepers, including a thorn-bearing one, known among the

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

The thornlessness of the vegetation is especially noticeable to those who have been in the south, where there is so great a variety of thorn-bearing plants and trees.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The level plains of arid shingle support the same stunted and dwarf plants; and in the valleys the same thorn-bearing bushes grow.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The level plains of arid shingle support the same stunted and dwarf plants; and in the valleys the same thorn-bearing bushes grow.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Yes, the lives of two folk were thus undone by ‘the thorn-bearing company of Judaea.’

Through Russia 2003

When I emerged from the corrugated decon tube into the foggy, dripping night, I found to my dismay that we were completely surrounded by a tangle of thorn-bearing undergrowth intertwined with stout lianas.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

In the unfruitful shoots of those thorn-bearing vines and withered fig trees I learned the burden of the desert: Though it blossom as the rose, if it yield not honey it shall be laid waste; though it deck itself with beauty, though it sing with the voice of the charmer, its fairness is a mock and its song is the song of the harlot.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

By the bridge alone could Rockburg be approached; for higher up the river, where, near the cascade, it was fordable, a dense and impenetrable thicket of orange and lemon trees, Indian figs, prickly pears, and all manner of thorn-bearing shrubs, planted by us, now formed a complete barrier.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The snake seemed to be within striking distance and the unnerved boy sprang suddenly away from it, landing among the thorn-bearing branches of a big lime tree.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock