Elder and blackthorn bushes offered patches of shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

In the shade of the blackthorn and the chill of the frost.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Stretched on Your Grave] Reference

They would not let any one cut a blackthorn shoot on Hallowe'en.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference

Against a background of starry blackthorn blazed the golden gorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

Ruby was four and spent the night attached to the blackthorn tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain]

His finger bled from a thorn, as once it had bled from a blackthorn spray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

She still carried the blackthorn from which most of the blossoms had fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

We carried blackthorn cudgels to protect us from gamekeepers, lords and dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

There are also the crocus, the missel thrush, the cuckoo, the blackthorn, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [george orwell | some thoughts on the common toad « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

And its like puss in a blackthorn wound - it will have to come out in the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Powys Council Mystery] Reference

Spinosa, or blackthorn, and it was covered with berries at the time of our visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town] Reference

And the purpling lilacs and the blackthorn brakes are singing with all their souls!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917] Reference

She touched the thick blackthorn staff which hung at an angle in two loops of leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty Blaise]

He says that after Admiral got loose at Maidenhead he tried to jump a blackthorn hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead Cert]

The chateau's orchard, beyond the garden, had no walls, but only a thick blackthorn hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

He was dressed in nightshirt and trousers, with his favourite blackthorn cudgel in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.] Reference

The silence deepened; in the heart of the wood a blackbird was piping madly on a blackthorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

The abbot had gently brushed the petals of blackthorn from the spine, and closed the Gospels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

As soon as they are made, let the bottoms of them be covered with fresh-cut blackthorn bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference

Now he came to think about it, he had not tried casting a Patronus with the blackthorn wand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

His two clenched hands were raised above his head, and a heavy, blackthorn stick lay across them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.] Reference

“Mr. Lewisham!” she said in feigned surprise, and stood away to give him room at the blackthorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

Then something met his eye on a spike of blackthorn, and he carefully picked off a thread of brown cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

The blackthorn began to show a breaking of pale blossom upon its branches and the hawthorn to vie with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

"One goal of the regulatory council is to improve the domestication of the blackthorn," says Mr. Berraondo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spain's Ancient Spirit:] Reference

But when the wind turned the leaves, the blackthorn flowers were enough to arrest the movement at that place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

In fact, she had in her hours of desolation become quite fond of the little old man with the blackthorn cane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference

“Show me,” she said, though she knew this was the only place for blackthorn for a mile in either direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

His blackthorn stick lay on the bench beside him, and his short, bowed legs dangled a few inches above the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

And yet the oracle had lodged in Cadfael's mind like a thorn from the blackthorn bushes, and would not be dislodged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

The pair had halters as well as bridles, and, dismounting, made their nags fast to a large blackthorn that grew there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

It took him but a short time to cut a road through the blackthorn, and then he laid the axe and the knife under a tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference

Hazelwood or blackthorn walking sticks, crafted in Ireland, come in a variety of styles from the Hooligan to St. Patrick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take to the Highway] Reference

Walking sticks of hazelwood or blackthorn, crafted in Ireland, come in a variety of styles from the Hooligan to St. Patrick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gift Suggestions for Travelers] Reference

Now he came to think about it, he had not tried casting a Patronus with the blackthorn wand … He must try that in the morning ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]

He looked round, and there she was, her back to him, reaching after the spiky blossoming blackthorn that crested the opposite hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

Currently, many producers still pick wild berries from blackthorn bushes in the foothills of the Pyrenees during a September harvest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spain's Ancient Spirit:] Reference