thistledown

How to use thistledown in a sentence

• Still he clung to the little thistledown of hope that he should have plenty of time to cram it before the form were called up.

  Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar

• For Winnie, dark as Kathlyn was light, was as careless and aimless as thistledown in the wind.

  The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrath

• The combined burden would lie light as thistledown on my shoulders.

  The Terms of Surrender | Louis Tracy

• It was yesterday but a straw—to-day it is but the thistledown; but I will cling to it to the last moment.

  A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others | Various

• Tireless as thistledown that rolls here and there at the will of the wind, up she sprang and began to dance.

  Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood