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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A purple thistle sewn to the pocket of a school blazer.
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For some reason every species is blue-violet: lupine, blue-eyed grass, thistle , gentian.
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He went cautiously out into the field, squatted down against a clump of thistles and began to smell the wind.
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New this Christmas are Whisky Thistle Truffles, each moulded into a thistle shape and filled with real whisky truffle centres.
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The dew-drop on a bullock's pizzle, thick glycerine, a limpid gum, swaying on the great dead thistle .
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They guided cars to the curving verges of grass, once mown close, now high and grown with thistles.
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Two thousand years ago, the biblical farmer was tormented by tares and Virgil was denouncing what he called the lazy thistle .
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Why is the lovely silver Royal Victorian Order insignia decorated with a rose, thistle , shamrock - and a sunflower?