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one of several leafless, very thorny shrubs or small trees of the southwestern desert areas of North America.

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Also called corona de Jesus .

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Thorn also posted a video on his personal YouTube page wherein he desk-dances to Taylor Swift.
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But the system that Battle represents is a constant thorn in their side.
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You may think crucifixion has gone out of penological style.
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That freedom has been a thorn in the side of many cardinals who feel the sisters should be more conservative.
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A tabletop bronze of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot, made around 1500 by the Renaissance sculptor known as Antico.
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Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
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Taylor alludes to several made from the well known Glastonbury thorn.
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I feel as if he were a little child crying with a thorn in his finger, and he had no mother to take it out.
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He lay motionless in her lap, until the thorn suddenly let go and lay in Jess' hand.
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Then she held the soft paw firmly with her left hand, and pulled steadily on the thorn with her right hand.
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