cockspur

How To Use cockspur In A Sentence

• Her life so bare that she lacked buttons, for he noted that the top of her dress was held to with a long briar from a cockspur bush. Cold Mountain
• The little lady hath no shoon, no skirt that holds together, save by the grace of cockspur thorns that bind the tatters. The Hidden Children
• He took not a spark of interest in the gaming cocks we raised together to compete at the local contests and at the fair, and knew not a gaff from a cockspur. Richard Carvel — Complete
• Cockspur, stopped there every ten weeks; but the direst threat CHAPTER III
• Green bristlegrass was dominant species, and fat hen and cockspur grass were subdominant species.
• In the way of fruit-bearing shade trees he recommends sugar maple, flowering dogwood, white and cockspur thorn, native red mulberry, tupelo, black cherry, choke cherry, and mountain ash. The Bird Study Book
• Prickly hedges are the answer here and firethorn (pyracantha), berberis and cockspur thorn are appropriate boundary plants. The Sun
• We picked nearly a barrelful of cockspur roots from the field. A Woman Rice Planter
• The peas are bearing well and the grass is very high, and it will make splendid hay, but I will not mow it until I feel sure there is not a single cockspur left. A Woman Rice Planter