1. Grasp the thistle firmly.

2. She sifted thistles through her thistle - sifter.

3. The thistle is the national emblem of Scotland.

4. The thistle is the emblem of Scotland.

5. Scotland's emblem is the thistle.

6. Creeping thistle, haunt of the charming meadow brown butterfly, can become a real pest if it gets a foothold.

7. Partick Thistle have signed Hearts' 31-year-old midfielder Ian Jardine as player-coach.

8. Thistle climbed back into the frame when Ray Farningham fired in a 20-yarder from Don McVicar's pass after 56 minutes.

9. A purple thistle sewn to the pocket of a school blazer.

10. Mount Charlotte Thistle announced its pre-tax profit down to ￡1.5 million from ￡29.1 million the previous six months.

11. The third is Royal Thistle a patterned tufted in 50% Wool 50% Polypropylene in 10 colours.

12. New this Christmas are Whisky Thistle Truffles, each moulded into a thistle shape and filled with real whisky truffle centres.

13. Sister Susie sitting on a thistle.

14. Alice ran round the thistle again.

15. Foot and Thistle, Mountain Gorilla of Rwanda.

16. The wild thistle has a very high nutritional value.

17. Scotland's flower is the setose thistle flower, one kind of leaf belt punctures purple flower.

18. Milk Thistle is a unique herb which contains a natural compound called silymarin.

19. Milk thistle and turmeric is the preferred pet medication for this disorder, and most liver ailments in pets.

20. Upon a biological level, Milk Thistle assists in balancing the ratios of fat to protein to mineral to sugar required to hold a crystalline form together, and through the process of ascension.

21. Dioscorides wrote that Milk Thistle seeds could be to treat snake bites.sentencedict.com/thistle.html

22. Eurasian thistle growing in sand dunes and dry chalky soils.

23. Two thousand years ago, the biblical farmer was tormented by tares and Virgil was denouncing what he called the lazy thistle.

24. For some reason every species is blue - violet: lupine, blue - eyed grass, thistle, gentian.

25. The dew-drop on a bullock's pizzle, thick glycerine, a limpid gum, swaying on the great dead thistle.

26. The most recent addition is a beautiful Chapel of the Knights of the Thistle.

27. The comfortable chairs and sofa are covered in a shiny white chintz with purple thistle motifs.

28. Why is the lovely silver Royal Victorian Order insignia decorated with a rose, thistle, shamrock - and a sunflower?

29. Depend on your damage output, you may need to thistle tea to counter this.

30. Black Sea of red crystal, Highborne relics, corruption bears a strange, rabid thistle bears 1, 2.