Sentence examples for of a thorn from inspiring English sources

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I approached the head of the makeup department with a crude drawing of a thorn.

One day, in another refugee camp called Treguine, I sat outside with Spero in the shade of a thorn tree.

Indeed, Q Investments has become something of a thorn in the side of Cedar Fair's management and board.

Mr. Mirkarimi "has been kind of a thorn in the side of law enforcement in San Francisco," Mr. Ross noted.

"You figure, if you become enough of a thorn in their side, maybe they'll just give up".

But, by way of a thorn, he of course added he had no intention of shutting up.

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"Museum Trip," all about finding a footpath, is stocked with feet: the floating shoes of Chagall's "Birthday" couple, sandaled Greek feet, the upturned foot of a thorn-puller, the paw of a Roman she-wolf.

Children without traditional values will often be foot loose morally, fancy free, and wild--pretty much like non-parented children: flighty as birds, friendship with wolves, and having the sharpness of a thorn--all natural but unwise and should be considered dangerous to morals and family virtues.

The nest is large, usually built of sticks in a thorn tree.

Yet a man of principle is always a thorn in the side of authoritarian forces.

He lifted one of his bare feet to pull a thorn out of his heel.

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