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- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
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any affliction that causes great suffering
he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns
that is his cross to bear
How To Use crown of thorns In A Sentence
- As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
- Like a sea the waste stretched out before her, ending only as the jags rose to breathtaking heights to become the rigid range of mountains called the Crown of Thorns.
- To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
- poured out" of His body by the various ways in which it was shed, His bloody sweat, the crown of thorns, the scourging, the nails, and after death the spear, just as the blood was entirely poured out and extravasated from the animal sacrifices of the law. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Euphorbia includes rhizomatous weeds of grainfields (the spurges), large shrubs like Poinsettia, small bushes (crown of thorns) and cactus-like forms. Mammalian Macroevolution Muddle - The Panda's Thumb
- To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
- The stigmata, or wounds resembling them, the hands that held the crown of thorns. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
- he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns
- And they clothed Him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about His head, And began to salute Him, Hail, King of the Jews!
- There are several succulents: crown of thorns, Madagascar palms, stapelias, optunia sublata to name a few.
