thistledown

IPA: θˈɪsʌɫdaʊn

Examples of "thistledown" in Sentences

A thing as important as thistledown is as unimportantly dismissed.
We also believed that there's a secret name which, if you call the thistledown by, will make it fly into your hand.
A thin mist floated like thistledown from the marshes, which were so distant that they were visible only as a pinkish edge to the horizon.
Grit and thistledown rushed past on the wind; shadows from the trees lining the road cut the ground like the dark lances of forest spirits.
Did he ever (like most of us) catch some floating bit of emotional thistledown & go on from that, or did he plan on a subject like an architect?
Henry's post starts: "Unafraid as I am to pin my hamster to the mast in a sudden crisis, I shall splench my mainwairing to the thistledown and gladiate hencewithstanding."
Vanaheim, long before those times I have memories (living memories) of earlier drifts, when, like thistledown before the breeze, we drifted south before the face of the descending polar ice-cap.