| Nearly all roses are well equipped with sharp thorns, and some are very thorny. |
| Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows. |
| Peter has written rather more of this than he lets on, leaving thorny problems of attribution for future historians. |
| Without pausing she went forward until tall salal, wild spiraea bushes and thorny blackberry wands barred her way. |
| Flowering quince is Chaenomeles, that dense, thorny, spring-blooming shrub that comes in all those incomparably rich and tarty hot colors. |
| As if sensing death they fought hard not to be caught, one beast even leaping the thorny fence. |
