That is, the bushes had thorns on them and green stems. We will have to wait to see if they are roses. They also have dandelions here. A good percent of English men look like the Yarrows and Fowles. Have blue eyes, ruddy complexion and many have light red or sandy colored hair. ...
A Christmas Memory By Truman Capote Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town. A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace ...
but he had had a hard life. It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns ...