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Thistly   Listen
adjective
Thistly  adj.  
1.
Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
2.
Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking. "In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side."





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"Thistly" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have the entire devotion of a strong, enterprising, self-willed friend, as Agnes had all her life found. One cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles, and the affection of thorny and thistly natures has often as sharp an acid and as long prickers as wild gooseberries,—yet it is their best, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various


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