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Thorny

adjective

(compar. thornier; superl. thorniest)

Bristling with perplexities.

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny. "Bristly shrubs" , "Burred fruits" , "Setaceous whiskers"

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"Thorny" Quotes from Famous Books

... our story is ended. If you have followed us thus far, neglect not to receive what we have faintly endeavored to inculcate; and ever remember, while treading life's thorny vale, that "a kind word is of more value ...

— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

... is made in the shape of a horned toad, the lizard so familiar to anyone who has visited the Southwest of the United States. The head with its spikes, and the tail as well, are well rendered; the thorny prominences of the body are represented by ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... too," says Mrs. Monkton, who has now grown rather pale. "But there is still one more thing to know—that in making such a marriage as we have described, a woman lays out a thorny path for her husband. She separates him from his family, and as all good men have strong home ties, she naturally compels him to feel many a ...

— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

... if I never again meet these individual mountains, I carry with me their memory, eternal and incomparably glorious. Let us peep into this nook: I got plentiful blackberries there in the spring, together with stains and thorny scratches. I haul myself over the ferry and back, for old acquaintance' sake; the current is so lazy, it seems incredible that the same waters are almost impassable at some seasons. I succeed in wrecking a whole armada of floating leaves with stems like a bowsprit. A few beetles take passage ...

— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... she would keep his home for him. The brave red roses, the bold laughing red roses, their crimson challenge was shrivelled to darkened shreds, each golden heart was a pinch of black dust; only the thorny stems remained to show what queen ...

— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

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