It was old blackthorn, and he went down like a tree.

He was looking down at the thing under the blackthorn bushes.

No one was interested in taking any prisoners from the Blackthorn.

I took up a heavy blackthorn and went out into the corridor.

Brainburned, just like the ones he'd found at the Blackthorn.

More and more he was getting the feeling that something bad had happened in the Blackthorn.

The house they spoke of was the big house, Blackthorn!

She still carried the blackthorn from which most of the blossoms had fallen.

The Blackthorn tavern turned out to be a pleasant surprise.

Her cottage was a far cry from the country comfort of Blackthorn.

Something evil had come to the Blackthorn, and traces of its presence still remained.

Nothing less than a total refitting could save the Blackthorn, and she didn't have that kind of money.

But when the wind turned the leaves, the blackthorn flowers were enough to arrest the movement at that place.

Blackthorn said of the murder, "I was neither for nor against it.

At the trial it was claimed that he, Blackthorn and another friend had planned the murder.

Towards the end of the 18th century Blackthorn experienced increases in both population and poverty.

Well, child, remember that even a blackthorn bush has flowers sometimes, beautiful and white among the thorns.

Ballard reached for the blackthorn stick which was on the back seat and then got out of the car.

And for him, safety had always been the Blackthorn Inn.

There was a couple still busy on something lying among the flowering blackthorn.

He stopped the car by Blackthorn and went with Maggie up the walk.

A small chest of carved blackthorn wood was more than enough room for his few personal possessions.

Morthen made a sound like a wild animal, turned and ran down through the blackthorn.

The town name is associated with the blackthorn walking stick known as a shillelagh.

The money is hidden in an abandoned mine, and he will compensate Blackthorn for his help.

Her eyes were black as sloes and, had I but known it.

His face was very white so that his eyes looked like two black sloes.

Sarah can feel the pulse in Sloe's throat before she takes her hand back.

She gave me a drink that tasted of sloes, and I slept.

Sloe went over and put her arm round Jubal's shoulder.

I Temember how he looked at me in the red dress and gold sloes.

Her eyes were dark as two sloes, but it was obvious she was fast.

The pupils of her eyes, black as sloes, dilated a little.

Industrial activities are concentrated in the west of the peninsula (the Sloe area).

Unlike sloes, the bushes or small trees have no thorns.

Maybe sloe had stopped thinking about him, too.

His eyes were round and dark as sloes.

Nervously, Sloe put down her cheroot and did not resume it.

"If anything happens to me, I want you to marry Sloe.

There's no cooking required, just patience as the sloes steep in the gin.

Her eyes, dilated with terror, looked as black as sloes.

Normally picked after frost, these sloes seem fully ripe.

Before this dam was constructed, these islands were separated by a stretch of water called the Sloe.

Jubal patted Sloe's arm, nodded to me and left without relaxing his worried look.

For that I was grateful: Sloe's feelings must be no affair of mine.

So maybe the reason sloe became sick at Fresh Start was that the demon had been right there beside her.

Sloe watched the change come over him.

Sloes are thin-fleshed, with a very strongly astringent flavour when fresh.

This effect can be reproduced by freezing harvested sloes.

Sloe stared at him silently, searching his face.

The larva feed on Crataegus and Prunus spinosa.

The larvae feed on Prunus species, including Prunus spinosa.

Eggs are laid singly on young Blackthorn Prunus spinosa growth and it is this stage which hibernates.

The larvae spin or roll together leaves of Crataegus or Prunus spinosa and feed within or nearby.

Blackthorn or Sloe (Prunus spinosa; Dygioji slyva)

The larvae primarily feed on Ulmus species, but have also been recorded on Quercus, Tilia and Prunus spinosa.

In Europe the female lays her eggs on Blackthorn Prunus spinosa in late August which overwinter, hatching the following spring when the buds are breaking.

The larvae feed on various shrubs, deciduous trees and herbaceous plants, including Common Lilac, Apple, Rose and Prunus spinosa.

They over winter, and feed on various plants in spring, including Viola, Plantago, Crataegus, Prunus spinosa, Rubus idaeus and Quercus.

The larvae feed on various plants, including Plantago, Taraxacum, Galium, Clematis, Vicia, Salix and Prunus spinosa.

Recorded food plants include Salix, Quercus, Corylus, Prunus spinosa, Rubus fruticosus, Rubus idaeus and Vaccinium myrtillus.

But they have also been recorded from other Spiraeoideae, e.g. Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) and other Prunus species, Cotoneaster, as well as Malus sylvestris and Pyrus (pear).

Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), the fruit of which are sloes, can still be found in the hedgerows down the lane named Slaughter Hill, which adjoins with the neighbouring civil parish of Crewe Green.

Like other varieties of Prunus domestica, the bullace may have had its origin in hybrids between the sloe (Prunus spinosa) and cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera), though there is also evidence that domestica was solely descended from the latter.

Clouds of white blossom, fragile and beautiful as snowflakes, covered the Golden Hornet and John Downie crab apples last month, and the wild cherries Prunus avium and blackthorn Prunus spinosa, which are planted in the boundary hedges.

T. padi, a 'tongue fungus', produces a distinctive, elongated, tongue-like growth on Bird Cherry, similar to other closely related species such as Taphrina alni on Alder (Alnus glutinosa) and Taphrina pruni on Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).

Her eyes were black as sloes and, had I but known it.

His face was very white so that his eyes looked like two black sloes.

She gave me a drink that tasted of sloes, and I slept.

In a short while his wife, Sloe, joined us.

The pupils of her eyes, black as sloes, dilated a little.

Her eyes were dark as two sloes, but it was obvious she was fast.

Industrial activities are concentrated in the west of the peninsula (the Sloe area).

Unlike sloes, the bushes or small trees have no thorns.

Maybe sloe had stopped thinking about him, too.

Nervously, Sloe put down her cheroot and did not resume it.

There's no cooking required, just patience as the sloes steep in the gin.

His eyes were round and dark as sloes.

Her eyes, dilated with terror, looked as black as sloes.

"If anything happens to me, I want you to marry Sloe.

I Temember how he looked at me in the red dress and gold sloes.

Sloe went over and put her arm round Jubal's shoulder.

Before this dam was constructed, these islands were separated by a stretch of water called the Sloe.

This effect can be reproduced by freezing harvested sloes.

Normally picked after frost, these sloes seem fully ripe.

In the meantime, we harvested kilos of sloes from the hedgerows.

I am happy to keep bags of sloes in the freezer until the jars are freed up, and start a late winter batch.

However, we have only had one minor frost and the hedges still brim with fat purple sloes.

Damsons may be better as jam, and sloes in gin, but both could be eaten.

Sloes are thin-fleshed, with a very strongly astringent flavour when fresh.