Spines

Usage examples of thorns.

Nurse Harden fetched the syringe and gave it to Thorns, who injected the stuff.

He hoped he would find a handful of his men there, but he died in the thorns, shot by a hidden marksman, and the Spanish Lieutenant never knew that the men who had captured the watchtower were dressed not in British red, but in French blue.

She had once amused herself with the whimsy that the thorns were the gorupear's protec-tors, for the two invariably grew close together.

Nurse Banks glanced across and then stolidly helped Thorns to cover the patient and lift him back on the trolley.

It appeared that the only members of the party who had been alone in the theatre were Phillips, herself, Thorns, and possibly one of the nurses.

He measured the floor space, made a tiny plan and marked the positions of the two tables, and, as Thorns instructed him, those of the surgeons and nurses.

It's kept in a bottle, which Thorns tells me is very out of dateit should be in an ampoule.

Has Thorns told you that I opened a new tube of tablets for the hyoscine injection?

Fox opened the swing-door and he went through, followed by Thorns, Sister Marigold, Jane Harden, and Banks.

It grew, the priest said, sheep and thorns, and the priest told the villagers that made the village a holy place because Christ's life began with the shepherds' visit and ended with a crown of thorns.

The Gateway of God guarded only Adrados now, a valley of sheep, thorns, and Pot-au-Feu's desperate band of deserters.

Sharpe pointed to the foot of the slope where the dark path between the thorns debouched onto a rough pasture land that was stippled red and black by the firelight.

The mist was clearing from the smaller valley, showing the bare thorns touched with frost, revealing a small sparkling stream.

He looked to his right, pointedly away from the footsteps, and watched the work-party coming down the steep path between the thorns with the packs tied to their rifles.

Sharpe could not see it, but he guessed that the stones had fallen from part of the lower wall, and he could see the remnants of Pot-au-Feu's band scrambling through the thorns to the clearer turf of the hilltop.