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Updated: May 21, 2025
But all the most vigorous stems of blackthorn and whitethorn he half cuts through and then bends over, twisting the heads to the next stocks or uprights, or, where there are no stocks, driving in stout stakes cut from the discarded blackthorns.
The east wind had been swept aside by gales from the warm south, and the spring was bursting out everywhere; the sky looked softly blue, instead of hard and chill; the sun made everything glisten: the hedges were full of catkins; white buds were on the purple twigs of the blackthorns; primroses were looking out on the sunny side of the road; the larks were mounting up, singing as if they were wild with delight; and the sunbeams were full of dancing gnats, as the Curate of Friarswood walked, with quick eager steps, towards the bridge.
Thomas had served the club many years, but he had never heard of that cocktail. "Well, Thomas," said Peter, "if you don't have that in stock, make it seven Blackthorns." Then presently eight men packed themselves into the elevator, and a moment later were sitting in one of the private dining-rooms.
They fight for fun, for love, for anything, for nothing, with words, with blows, with tongues, with blackthorns, anywhere, anyhow, only let them fight. Remove Mr. Bull, they will fight each other. Heaven help the right when nobody stands by to see fair play! A Mr. Magrath, of Killmallock, was inclined to take a jocose view of the situation.
Above all, he had marked some very promising-looking sticks two blackthorns and a holly to cut on his way home, and he was intent on not missing them. So sudden was the jerk that announced his coming on the first one, as nearly to throw the old family horse on his knees, and almost to break Mr. Sponge's nose against the brass edge of the cocked-up splash-board. Ere Mr.
'The blackthorns clung with heapen sloes' Again, in the line 'He well may come with baits and trolls', we do not know whether trolls has something to do with pike-fishing, or merely means the reel on the rod. 'And trolls and pixies unbeknown'.
'Michael Hegarty, says I, 'where did ye scour up yer thievin' set o' rag-heaps? says I. 'Ye'd bate me wid blackthorns, would ye? Come on, you and your dirty thribe, till I put sivin shots into yez.
One tree was covered with red berries, and I broke off a branch and brought it home, thinking that perchance it might have come down to us from one planted by Marban's hand. Of blackthorns there are plenty. The adjective he uses is "dusky." Could he have chosen a more appropriate one?
A man's watching you from the blackthorns at the top of the wood. He hasn't seen me. Don't look his way, but walk along the path below, and when you reach the end of the wood turn up and hide in the cross-hedges, so that you can watch him if he comes out anywhere in the open. And, mind, don't let him see you then.
"I think they are first-rate cabins, considering that they're on board ship; you can't expect to have such rooms here as you have at `The Blackthorns. Space is limited afloat, you know."
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