'Some seed fell among the thorny weeds, and the weeds grew up with them and choked the good plants,' " he read, quoting Luke 8:7.

Then he added his exegesis: "We've had friends who were not Christian, and for me they were like the thorny weeds," he said.

These plants are a thorny weed, a soporific, and a poison, respectively.

There were lots partially overrun with dry thorny weeds, delineated with raw block walls, commercially zoned but never developed.

Bubbles finds a kind of thorny weed, which spreads throughout the lake.

There, Ishmael found spotty lichens and a few thorny weeds in cracks, demonstrating the hardiness and resilience of life.

Rusty-red siding tracks glowered from deep within tangles of sunflowers and thorny weeds; shards from a hundred broken bottles twinkled in the afternoon sun.

Scrabbling back up the incline, she clutched the thorny weeds to pull herself forward.

Inlaid gray stones marked the path, On either side of the rock, the desert brush grew wild and thick: flowering succulents, prickled cacti in all shapes, thorny weeds.

Peering through a clump of thorny weeds, Perrin saw only the same rolling plain that lay behind them.