whitethorn

How to use whitethorn in a sentence

• At this moment a man's face rose above the whitethorn hedge.

  That Lass O' Lowrie's | Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Nor must we omit to mention that the whitethorn is one of the trees that claims to have been used for the sacred Crown of Thorns.

  The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

• They nestled side by side under the old whitethorn which, for once in a way, forgot to moan as the wind went down.

  Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland

• He was looking for chaffinches' nests in the big whitethorn hedge at the back of Ballymore Rectory, when he suddenly spied a rat.

  Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland

• He is the poet of English parish festivals and of English flowers, the primrose, the whitethorn, the daffodil.

  From Chaucer to Tennyson | Henry A. Beers