Sentence examples for with a thorn from inspiring English sources

Facebook Twitter Pinterest J Mascis gives The Boy With A Thorn In His Side a throaty backwoods grunge overhaul.

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.

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.

If he can only maintain this position … the rebellion can only eke out a short and feeble existence, as an animal sometimes may with a thorn in its vitals".

Because the trade unions see themselves less as the lions that surrounded Daniel than as the poor creature with a thorn in his paw that failed to maul Androcles.

In tossing out the board's decision, the appeals court said genital cutting was not necessarily a "one-time act" of persecution, citing the case of a woman from Sierra Leone whose vagina was sewn shut with a thorn and then cut open each time her husband wished to have sex.

A carbon electrode with a thorn-like nanostructure could be fabricated by UV/ozone treatment using different etching rates depending on nanometer-order differences in the local sp3 content of the nanocarbon film.

With Nigeria a thorn in its side, it was little small surprise that Shell was considering a 20% reduction of its Nigerian workforce, although cutting 1,000 jobs in a poor country could further strain the company's relations with the Nigerian government.

Kris Kolesnik, who was Mr. Grassley's chief investigator for 18 years, said the senator could get away with being a thorn in the F.B.I.'s side "because he's such a Boy Scout; he has no skeletons in his closet".

Meeting with him, a thorn suddenly leaps from Faris' palm, manifesting as Exdeath, now resurrected and fully in command of the Void.

The movie gently suggests that until his retirement at 28, Jones's obsession with golf was a thorn in his wife's side.