Scotch thistle
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Clutching her teddy bear, the curly-haired Princess sits upon Newfoundland's new stamp between a Scotch thistle and an English rose.
From Time Magazine Archive
The opposition did not want to fight but was intent to discover if the new lad in school would keep his ground saying, like the Scotch thistle, Don't touch me.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
Each morning she would twine a Scotch thistle in her hair, and pin a spray of burdock at her heart.
From Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
Scotch kale, a variety of kale; Scotch mist, a mist like fine rain; Scotch pebbles, varieties of agate and jasper; Scotch thistle, the national emblem of Scotland.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
He lit on a big Scotch thistle," said Uncle Roger, chuckling, "and besides that, he skinned his forehead on a stone.
From The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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