They bought a rusty old bedstead, very big, with laths that hung loose like a hammock, and all its knobs gone and only bare screws sticking up spikily.
"Harding's luck"
E. [Edith] Nesbit
Flowers drooped their heads if of the harebell sort, or stood spikily defiant like the yellow whin and the pink thistle.
"The Dew of Their Youth"
S. R. Crockett