Meanings of old thorn in English

But the old thorn, pressing persistently- Icouldnot get used to that.

We need also traces of an old thorn tree close by.

There it was again, the old thorn which prodded them into risks and recklessness.

An old thorn wound in Loveless's foot needed attention.

On the rising ground, see that old thorn tree; let us go and sit under it.

On the stump of an old thorn tree within the ruins sat the venerable figure of old Edie Ochiltree.

When I recovered my senses I found myself leaning, giddy and sick, against the bole of an old thorn-tree.

And going out of the house, he walked about the hilltop, about the old thorn-bush, his hands clasped behind his back.

On the outer edge of the paling, hanging over the bank that skirts the road, is an old thorn-sucha thorn!

Do you remember the strange woman in dark rags you watched me talking to up by the old thorn that day?

He placed her regally, with an old thorn for support and canopy; and then he stood a moment beside her gazing westward.

At length, rising to her knees and looking up the green slope, she cried out: Oh, Johnnie, there's the old thorn tree!

And now she's fought us all off and gone up to the old thorn where even now the demon's sitting waiting for her.

Your fair lady is in trouble, summoned to the old thorn tree half-way up the hill by her sister, who is in dire need.

Down below, over the sparkling brook, an old thorn was quivering in the warm breeze, its bright thin green shining against the brown heather.

When we git to th' old thorn let me out o' the cart and let me stand under it one minnit and no more.