1.   Above them, tied to a thorn tree, faded red and white streamers dangle like the tattered carcasses of scrawny birds.

2.   At the first steep slope of Great Ararat they tethered their horses to a thorn tree and hobbled them.

3.   The old general store had gone but the shade thorn tree was still there, bewildered by its surround of concrete pavement.

4.   The thorn trees crowned the edge of a little valley where ran a track as old as the land itself.

5.   According to a legend invoked by the novelist Colleen McCullough, a thorn bird does not sing until it impales itself on the sharpest spine of a thorn tree.

6.   All around was the vast heat of the Denkali desert, a barren place of thorn trees, camels, goats, and turbaned Afar tribesmen.

7.   But during a lunch break, a small group who sheltered from the harsh sun under a thorn tree above the beach painted a gloomy picture.

8.   The stunted thorn trees of the savannas, adapted to drought, cannot compete with foreign giants like eucalyptuses and willows with their deep taproots.

9.   In classes that meet under thorn trees, men and women learn the fundamentals of bookkeeping, marketing and managing.

10.   Scientists aboard a helicopter swooped into a shallow valley where a herd of buffalo grazed in the shade of thorn trees.