"Spiny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... themselves seem to be asleep, there is occasionally a sweet music heard, too soft for even the listening ear to catch by day. Every breath of summer wind that steals through the pine-forests wakes this music as it goes. The stiff spiny leaves of the fir and pine vibrate with the breeze, like the strings of a musical instrument, so that every breath of the night-wind, in a Norwegian forest, wakens a myriad of tiny harps; and this ...
— Feats on the Fiord - The third book in "The Playfellow" • Harriet Martineau
... greenish, spiny larvae of the saw-fly feed on the tender leaves in spring. Spray with Paris green or arsenate of lead, or ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... large; and there are the freshwater crabs. There are the little shrimps and the big hump-backed fellows, or prawns; there are the 'crangons' or squillae; and the big lobsters and the crawfish or 'langoustes', their spiny cousins. We read about their beady eyes, which turn every way; about their big rough antennae and the smaller, smoother pair between; the great teeth, or mandibles; the carapace with its projecting rostrum, ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... four-footed creature now existent on Dunk Island is the so-called porcupine (spiny ant-eater or echidna). An animal which possesses some of the features of the hedgehog of old England, and resembles in others that distinctly Australian paradox, the platypus, which has a mouth which it cannot open—a mere tube through which the tongue is thrust, which in the production of ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... agreement, and the two scouts ran at full apeed along the narrow ribbon of grass between the prickly, spiny bushes. ...
— The Wolf Patrol - A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts • John Finnemore
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