Flowering plant with prickly leaves

Usage examples of teasel.

When spring came, I landed in Margate with a pocket full of coins and made my way to Teasel Hill.

The autumnal sun smiled on midmorning, and Devon and Merry, preparing to stroll back to Teasel Hill, found that such a simple walk posed all kinds of logistical problems.

At Teasel Hill two shouts brought the household and half the garden staff on the instant.

And after we bought Teasel Hill, farmers could hardly find feed for their stock that season because the aristocracy was so busy thatching cottages for themselves with it.

London these six days and only returned to Teasel Hill late this afternoon.

Merry to escape Teasel Hill well before the hour she had appointed to meet Raven.

She narrowly avoided inebriation by ordering a round dozen bottles of the port to be delivered to Teasel Hill and took her leave of the beaming proprietor.

I completely forgot to send a message to Teasel Hill, and so Aunt April arrived here with your mother!

And then he thought of Devon and Merry, and how he had seen them in the garden at Teasel Hill, clinging to each other as though they were one person, laughing like children about some silliness only they understood.

After she had eaten and washed, she was pulling tangles out of her wet hair with a twig and her fingers when she saw the dried teasel she had been using to comb and untangle some shaggy bark for twining.

Combing Whinney regularly had given her the idea to use the teasel on the fibers, and it was a natural step to try it on her own hair.

She brought grain to Whinney, and spent a few moments currying her with a teasel and scratching the little colt with it as well.

Ayla adjusted the tie on her new wrap, put her amulet round her neck, and pushed her hair, just brushed with teasel but not quite dry, back from her face.

Then she led her to Racer and showed the girl how to hold the teasel to curry the shaggy winter coat of the young horse.

They must have washed and rewashed the stain, with a teasel brush, because they also found a piece of teasel.