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blackthorns

n. (plural of blackthorn English)

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There are hundreds of them: smooth black Fred Astaire canes and rough chewed alpenstocks, blackthorns and quarterstaffs, cudgels and swagger sticks, bamboo and ironwood, maple and slippery elm, canes from Tangier, Maine, Zurich, Panama City, Quebec, Togoland, the Dakotas and Borneo, resting in notched compartments that resemble arms racks in an armory.

They aren't due back until late tomorrow, which means that unless the Blackthorns get in early from Boulder, there won't be anyone to cook dinner except me.

Behind me the pines roared, and under the noise the bare blackthorns by Galapas' grave rattled in the wind.

But nothing was there except the sky and the pines and the wind in the blackthorns.

Since the Blackthorns are descended from a Scots soldier in the British army -who spelled thorn with an e – they’ve been in the U.

Rogan led Brianna toward the wooden chairs set near the blackthorns for which the cottage was named.

There were blackthorns, bent a bit from the continual stream of the westerly breeze.