How To Use Cockspur In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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Cockspur, stopped there every ten weeks; but the direst threat
CHAPTER III
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Green bristlegrass was dominant species, and fat hen and cockspur grass were subdominant species.
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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
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Prickly hedges are the answer here and firethorn (pyracantha), berberis and cockspur thorn are appropriate boundary plants.
The Sun
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We picked nearly a barrelful of cockspur roots from the field.
A Woman Rice Planter
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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
