prickly shrub
Example Sentences
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As she lowered herself to the ground, a prickly shrub grazed her thigh, and she jumped like a shot to her feet.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2011
And I beckoned him across the room to the window that overlooked a stiff prickly shrub.
From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
Bramble, bram′bl, n. a wild prickly shrub bearing blackberries, a blackberry bush: any rough prickly shrub.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Here and there a stunted, grey, prickly shrub struggles to live, and just manages not to die.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
The only way to keep them off, is to cover the roof with a prickly shrub, the thorns of which stick to the flesh like fishhooks.
From Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Weir, Harrison
