High on horseback was a painless way to tour the Arizona desert, with horsehide rather than our shins facing down the cactus needles.

Such thorns were preferred to cactus needles by meticulous phonophiles of that era.

The most common material was steel, although other materials such as copper, tungsten, fibre, and cactus needles were used.

New Jersey alone has more millionaires than Arizona has cactus needles.

If it had been, we could wait here forever and get nothing but a few cactus needles for our trouble.

Grime-borne infection had erupted beneath his cheek-to-shin stubble of cactus needles, promoting a startling dermatological resemblance to a puffer fish.

Her jaw was pounding again, and a sharp pain in her belly made her wince-one of Piejack's slimy cactus needles, poking through her shirt.

Grundy made a running series of scrapes and whistles, as of wind blowing through erect cactus needles.

It was a cactus needle.

The man demonstrated by pushing the cactus needle through his shirt as if he were sewing.