Sentence examples for a thorn from from inspiring English sources
"We pulled a thorn from our side," said Vázquez.
His disappearance, followed perhaps by his party's, would remove a thorn from the prime minister's side.
At first I thought it was a thorn from a rose.
Too poor to buy string to tie the pages together, he used a thorn from a tree.
This instalment is Valley-Girl Aesop, with the irritatingly diminutised Tink plucking a thorn from, and thereafter domesticating, a fearsome cat-creature.
In contrast, an intensity of attention permeates a nearby drawing that Gossart covered with closely observed sketches of Roman statuary, including a marvelously complete rendering of a seated boy pulling a thorn from his foot and a large sandaled foot.
In case Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy hadn't put it plainly enough when they called George Papandreou on the carpet in Cannes, EU commissioner, Olli Rehn, issued his ultimatum on Sunday: Greece had 24 hours to form a unity government or be plucked like a festering thorn from Europe's side.
She only wakes up when the second child tries to suckle and ends up sucking out a poisoned thorn from her thumb instead".
He loses his sight in the Grimm version, too, but that's from an accident with a thorn bush, not from a brutal assault with scissors.
Meeting with him, a thorn suddenly leaps from Faris' palm, manifesting as Exdeath, now resurrected and fully in command of the Void.
The masia was built for Guillem de Torres, a Crusader who returned from the Holy Land with a thorn said to be from Jesus' crown at the crucifixion.
