I can tell him that that was one of the thorns in my flesh.
The fences should be of birch instead of thorns.
The garlands of roses that come to them to-day, perhaps, are not wholly without thorns.
A co-wife in feminine vocabulary was a thorn in one's side (satin kanta).
Considering we didn't have a refrigerator, all meals on uncomfortable humid days were prepared outside under the familiar shade of a thorn tree.
However, their dendrites are profusely branching with many thorn-like varicosities densely filling the area of arborization.
Their thin wavy dendrites were covered with characteristic, fine, thorn-like protrusions.
At the end of the arm is what looks like a tiny lollipop with a pointy thorn at the centre.
