| 单词 | brier |
| 例句 | My bare feet were getting sore from the flint rocks and saw briers. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Weeds, briers, and the grasses told him there would be rabbits, pheasants, woodchucks, and mice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There was the dry hot summer morning when I scratched my bare arms on briers while picking blackberries and came home with my fingers and lips stained black with sweet berry juice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like when a bee stung Sounder under the porch or a brier caught his ear in the bramble, the boy thought. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The father sharpened the butcher knife with the whetstone he used to whet his scythe and his goose-necked brier hook in the summer when he cut brambles and young sumac in the fencerows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Our favorite writers can lead us into ideological brier patches and ethical thickets. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Improvisation, terrifying to many dancers, is the brier patch where Ms. Lerman thrives. Review: ‘Rhythm in Motion,’ a Tap Dance Showcase, at Theater at the 14th Street Y 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The M.C. gig became a brier patch for celebrities rather than a feather in their caps. The Oscars Are a Mess. Let’s Make Them Messier. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Never mind “Fifty Shades of Grey”; check out the 50 shades of green, or the blossoms bursting through the flotsam and jetsam in those rowdy zones where rust, rubber, bramble and brier rumble and twine. Still Life: Still Life: Gallery of the Meadowlands 2012-07-10T16:24:06Z Oh, please don't throw me into the brier patch! What to read while you're on jury duty: crime novels, biographies 2010-09-17T23:44:00Z He hid for hours in a brier patch, clutching his .45 caliber pistol. Robert Kehoe, honored for valor in World War II, dies at 98 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “My attitude is, ‘OK, throw us in that brier patch. Pelosi threat upends Constitution, fuels partisan furor 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Camellia, sweet brier and pine trees surrounded its deserted sandy playground. Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Another forces entrants to trudge for nearly three days and nights through the mud and brier of Tennessee mountains. Ultra running can mean extreme heat, mountain climbs and, oh yeah, look out for those trees 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Experts said they thrive on poison ivy, poison oak, Kudzu, blackberries, nasty vines, and briers; and cost-savings are expected to result from using the goats instead of city staff. Savannah to use goats to clear vegetation 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Luckily, baseball has four years to work through this brier patch. Perspective | Collusion or common sense? Either way, baseball may be headed toward labor war 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z So long as he steers clear of his own weakness and draws others in to the brier patch that is his comfort, he wins. Donald Trump’s asymmetric warfare 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z At least an hour went by before a passing driver heard Ms. Anderson’s cries and bushwhacked through briers to reach the couple. 13 Deaths, Untold Heartache, From G.M. Defect 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “There are all sorts of brier patches in the law,” Mr. Beil said. Wisconsin’s Legacy for Unions 2014-02-22T16:17:16Z The archway is again united by the long-armed brier which grows across the rent, and the shattered buttresses are decorated with wild flowers, which gaily spring from their crevices and broken places. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z On he walked, however, his feet catching in the long briers, or striking against the stumps of felled trees, till at length a man started up before him, and exclaimed, "Who goes there?" Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z In that savage region the dense undergrowth afforded many a hiding-place, and an attempt was made to cut away the briers and thorns which served as shelter for ruined noble and hunted Catharan. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Thirty-three beautiful cherubs are showering the kneeling St. Francis with red and white roses, blossoms from the briers with which he scourged himself. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z They had had adventures since they were pulled from a Mitchelhurst brier that afternoon. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Venus ran straight to the scene of his tragic death, rushing through underbrush and briers, tearing her delicate skin, and her blood tingeing all the white roses along her way to a faint pink. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z He stopped and tried to pick the briers out of his bleeding hands, and as he did so, he heard a terrible cry. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z These were known by the dainty name of "brier candy," a name appropriate and characteristic, as the folk-names devised by children frequently are. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z But this end of the Ross of Mull was mostly, as when David Balfour walked across it, bog and brier and big stones. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z She wore long, loose gloves, to guard her hands and wrists, and as she came she had pulled autumn leaves of briony and bramble, and brier sprays with their bunches of glowing hips. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Gideon replied in anger, "If Jehovah gives them into my hand I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z My progress was slow; at times I sank between tree-roots, up to the thighs in moss; at times the little maidens of the flowering briers bade me tarry in their sharp, perfumed embrace. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z A sturdy plant, about three feet in height; set thick with briers, it well deserved its folk name. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z To the left of the road lay a piece of land, wild with briers and a growth of new timber, a thicket checkered with cattle paths. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z It snapped, and a little gold cross dropped from it, and lay, rather more than half-way down, among the briers and withered leaves. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z He caused them to be seized, seventy-seven in number, and tore them to death with thorns and briers. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z I ran down this trail till I came to a brier, and on the thorns of a spray which crossed the broad, hard trail, I left a few strings from my fringed hunting-shirt. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z McGilead, hands in pockets, stood sucking at an empty brier pipe, and scanning the parade that circled around him. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z In a thick patch of briers I lay down beside a log and slept, and opening my eyes I saw a star. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z The tall young fellow who stood a few steps away, gazing with knitted brows at the little wilderness of briers, was really very handsome, but he was not certain of the fact. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z The undergrowth consists of honeysuckle, alder, whortleberry, a plant like the mountain-holly, green brier, and fern. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z The villa had been transformed into a little church, so little that, when the Imperial persecutions stormed over the Spanish provinces, the worshippers hid it under heaps of turf and tangles of brier bushes. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Sweet′-brī′er, a thorny shrub of the rose kind resembling the brier, having a sweet smell; Sweet′-corn, a variety of maize.—v.t. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Bilberry, shadbush, and brier stand in May marriage robes of white, quiet and beautiful, scented at dusk when the sun warmth begins to leave the blossoms. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z "The survey was made by Lincoln," says Godby, "and I gave him as pay for his work two buckskins, which Hannah Armstrong 'foxed' on his pants so that the briers would not wear them out." Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z “This doesn’t seem much like a river trip to me,” Jule grinned as they passed over rocks, sneaked through miniature canyons and threaded thickets alive with briers and clinging vines. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z The shelf where Genius stands in view Has brier and daffodil and rue And love-lies-bleeding; but not you, Sweetwilliam. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Only in the foreground there is a lake surrounded with briers. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Sometimes the kittle pheasant, hardly at home in our woods, ducks her head and vanishes in the briers. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z As he seems to delight in keeping pursuers off by a natural fence of barbed wire, the cat brier, wild blackberry, raspberry, and rose bushes are among his favourite plants. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z “He’ll tie that boat up and blunder through the briers, when he might paddle up the stream close to the bank without taking any chances.” The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z This time Vatrin had a stick ready cut; and after a minute, plunging his hands into a brier bush, he pulled out by the ears a second rabbit. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z To go to the hermitage one had to leave the highroad and take the narrow, steep paths bound by little stone walls covered with briers. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z After a moment of suspense, mental and physical, I fell to earth, like the arrow in the song, I knew not where, and tobogganed painfully down something steep and stony, with briers in it. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Like "Brer Rabbit" the catbird is usually "bred and bawn in a brier patch." Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z This is composed of an outwork of thorns and briers supporting a mass of twigs and mud, which is succeeded by a layer of fibrous roots. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The long hair falling over his eyes was matted together and tangled with briers, and his little feet were sore and heavy with the mud that had caked in the long tassels of silky hair. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z The old cemetery, to be put in order a short time later, was then overrun with grass and briers. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Moreover, the company in which the trees find themselves is very miscellaneous, like the population of all pioneer communities—weeds, grasses, briers, shrubs. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Like the yellow-breasted chat, the catbird likes to hide its nest in a tangle of cat brier along the roadside undergrowth and in bushy, woodland thickets. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z It builds its nest in a tuft of grass, often under the shelter of briers or a low bush, constructing it of dry grass with a lining of hair. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z We cut down a lot of brier bushes, willows, and poplars,—then came the turn of a bird-cherry. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Some time was spent in finding a convenient spot, as the nettles and briers rendered it impossible for the combatants to take their places. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z We may rest assured that it cannot be found in an uncultivated field of brambles and briers, nor amid the rubbish of a misspent life; yet to find it, only requires diligent search. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z At last his step came slowly along the garret gallery, and Lindo, who approved of nursery tea, walked in first, his dignity somewhat impaired by a brier hanging from his back flounce. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z When the forest consists of pine, tall, the ground, instead of being rendered fertile by this process, becomes hopelessly barren, and for a long time afterward produces nothing but weeds and briers.—Læstadius, Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z I now got to the boat, without further difficulty; but the briers had worked on me at such a rate, that I felt like I wanted sewing up, all over. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. 2011-11-07T02:00:17.560Z Could God rest in the midst of thorns and briers? Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z From the window of our cottage home, streamed a column of light, in which I sat stringing the red berries of the brier rose. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Even as Tully parted the briers and brambles when he hunted for the sphere-containing cylinder that marked the grave of Archimedes, so did I comb the grass with my fingers for my monumental memorial flower. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Long dry and choked with bracken and with brier, It made a rugged pathway to a court Where stands the ruin of an ancient tower, Fenced in with walls pierced by an entrance low. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z In a wood on the farther side there was a place deep hidden in bush and brier, where a wild grape-vine made a swing between two old forest trees. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z But deep in the glen's bosom Summer slept in the fire Of the odorous gorse-blossom And the hot scent of the brier. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z Her beauty was not scratched with briers, after all. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z The rest of the building was all one mass of ugly ruins,--beams and rotten planks, blackened woodwork, pieces of rubbish all buried together, covered with mud and overrun with briers and high grass. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z With only the worm fence and its rough clothing of wild vines and briers between them, the women met face to face. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Through undergrowth, among trees and patches of briers, the horse capered, pranced, plunged, and ran, trying in vain to discharge his load until finally he stopped from sheer exhaustion. Stories of Old Kentucky 2011-09-23T02:00:21.413Z Was she well? was she happy? was she sun-burned? were her hands scratched with briers? and what kind of people were these Marshalls? Jessie Graham 2011-09-21T02:00:30.653Z There are briers and thistles and creeping vines around, but I heedlessly press on, for I must enjoy the fragrance and examine the structure of these unobtrusive plants. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Near at hand, she saw a great thorny brier. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z Through this tangle of vines, bushes, and briers she slowly made her way, until, suddenly, the long, regular rows of Ann's dead cotton-stalks, with their empty boles and withered leaves, stretched out before her. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z We could not handle one without having our hands pierced with hundreds of the little briers found on them. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z When he spoke again the hydrographer had been given time to shave another pipe charge of tobacco from his pocket plug and to fill and light the brier. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z She would have gone to him, if he had wanted her, though she had had to crawl upon her knees through thorns and briers. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z He had revealed to her a hollow nature whose void was choked with vice, like some of those declivities in neglected fields, where the weed and the brier run riot. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z As the blue rings of smoke from your brier pipe float up and away, you are carried in thought to the North Woods wherein he roamed. Habits, Haunts and Anecdotes of the Moose and Illustrations from Life 2011-08-23T02:00:29Z Stooping o’er the ragged heath, Thick with thorns and briers keen, Or the weedy bank beneath, Have I cut my rushes green; While the broom and spiked thorn Pearly drops of dew adorn. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The mouth was safely covered by the growth of sapling trees and briers; and one might pass at twenty paces and ne’er suspect it. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Still the unfinished work sprawls over the cliffs, and whence cannon were meant to stare, now thrust the blackberry, brier and eagle-fern through the embrasures, and stunted black-thorns and white-thorns shine green against the grey. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z And in his "Cretan Women" he says of the brier— As the full branch to earth is weigh'd With mulberries, white and black and red. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z They are short-lived and very poor in comparison with plants on brier and Manetti. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z Those who had not had time to put on their shoes did not mind the stones or briers or thorns of the Fiquet bottom; they ran like stags, the stoutest as fast as the rest. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z "Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city," etc. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Mine still can hope—still bear— Still hope for others what it never knew Of truth and peace; and silently pursue A path beset with briers, "and wet with tears like dew!" Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z Once we had to force our way on hands and knees through a mass of briers a quarter of a mile wide. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Budding is a far more interesting process to carry through, and by it we may have sturdier roses on a stock like Manetti or brier. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z It consisted of a grass-grown mount some thirty feet in length, by ten in height and breadth, and was surmounted by thick clustering briers and wild flowers. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z But verse 24 tells us the reason; she was a pricking brier to the house of Israel. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z "Now interweave your boughs and shut it in!" she said to the briers and pines which stood closely around it. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z It was hard work, feeling the way over rocks, climbing precipitous places, and descending the steep inclines through bushes and briers. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The rose plants that we buy already budded on Manetti or brier are produced in this way, excepting that the bud is inserted very low on the stock, so that the junction will be underground. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z Over sharp rocks and through tangled briers that black line led him on. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z At every step aside from her vocation, although never so carefully taken, a woman meets with briers and nettles that wound her unprotected feet but are carelessly trodden down by a man. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Through briers that trip them, one by one, With swinging pails, that take the sun, A troop of girls comes—berriers, Whose bare feet glitter where they pass Through dewdrop-trembling tufts of grass. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z The sensitive brier, observed in the mine district, is evidently not of this class, as it is found remote from any mine excavations. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Grafting is practiced only in the case of roses grown under glass, when the scions are cleft into stocks of Manetti or brier grown in pots for the purpose. Making a Rose Garden 2011-07-29T02:00:21.533Z The briers and thistles had been carefully cut away, there was no slab and no name over either, but the blue and white violets were planted thickly about both. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Baird encountered a snake fence and an almost impassable mat of briers, but even in the darkness he felt sure of his direction, certain of it when he slid down into mud and water. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z She stood waist-deep among the briers: Above in twisted lengths were rolled The sunset's tangled whorls of gold, Blown from the west's cloud-pillared fires. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z The bottoms are overrun by cane and brier, which render travelling extremely fatiguing. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z They must grasp with their own hand, the sharp briers that cling around the objects of their ambition. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z The boy’s face was torn with briers 141 and pinched with hunger and cold, but a faint smile came from it. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z It would not be possible to carry her through that network of briers, but if he made his way up the creek to where there was less undergrowth he could reach the pasture. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z It took me three days to cut a tunnel through that accursed tangle of matted brier and grey birch.... The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z But Seyd’s hand, which moved as quickly to his own gun, dropped, and he blushed crimson as the other held out his brier pipe. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z To employ her exuberant activity, Cecilia had been dragging branches of lilacs and laburnums, roses and sweet brier, to ornament the bower in which her fate was to be decided. The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z He had scudded under thick briers and probably had gotten away. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z Because the fairy Love went before her, picking up every rough stone and bur or brier, and when the sun was hottest, shaded the invalid with her delicate purple wings. Violet: A Fairy Story 2011-04-07T02:00:17.290Z There is a path—a tunnel under the matted briers. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z With a bleat of alarm they sprang to their feet and raced through the brush, leaping over bush and brier and boulder as if their very lives depended on it. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z Let me sit down here behind the screen of ferns and briers, and hear this wild-hen of the woods call together her brood. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Fences produce nothing but unwelcome bushes, briers and weeds. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Margaret was buried in the lower chancel, And William in the higher; Out of her breast there sprang a rose, And out of his a brier. The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship 2011-03-20T02:00:33.903Z They crept cautiously out of the briers, among ferns and open spots carpeted with pine needles and dead leaves which were beginning to burn ruddy gold under the level rays of the sun. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z But Frisky Fox could also leap bush and brier and boulder. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z Followed a little brook, the eastern branch of the Tiber, lined with bushes and a rank growth of green brier. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Give them an even start in Spring with the bushes and briers; let their number be sufficient; and they are very sure to come out ahead in the Fall. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Meanwhile the subject of the discussion paced to and fro, pulling at his brier, and indulging in a study of the brownest description. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z On the edges of these woods, to the northwest, lies a sea of briers, close growing, interwoven and matted, strong and murderous as barbed wire. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z In ‘O Bonnie was yon Rosy Brier’ he says: O bonnie was yon rosy brier That blooms so far frae haunt o’ man; And bonnie she, and ah, how dear! The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z Alas, for that spot where our tribes did assemble, In youthful succession, both healthy and gay, Which then did the Temple of Zion resemble,— But briers and thorns have now choked up the way. Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z When one got his share he tore himself away from the crowd as briers are pulled out of hairy cloth. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z It is now fallen in, and choked with briers, vines, and young trees. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z The others drag him away to the summer dining-room, now a great brier tangle, where once Lady Grace so pleasantly dined her guests. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z The yard was overrun with weeds and briers. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z For an hour he pulled at a blackened brier and pondered the question. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Disregarding possible damage to their clothing, the girls scrambled through the bushes and briers, reaching the bend in the river in time to see the houseboat vanishing far downstream. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z So read this with the snicker that accompanies it: Br’er Andrew, please don’t throw us into the brier patch.” In TV Ad, Cuomo Levels First Attack on Paladino 2010-09-24T01:55:00Z I can practically hear the rooms full of M.F.A. students shrieking, Please don’t throw me in the brier patch! Book Review - Book of Days - Personal Essays - By Emily Fox Gordon 2010-08-21T07:30:00Z It had been found in a brier patch where some fleeing wearer had snarled himself. The Law of Hemlock Mountain I was walking out there in the road, and I spied the brook over the wall and climbed through the briers to walk beside it, because it was trying so hard to talk to me. The Idyl of Twin Fires Surely those grim dwellers of a grim land should thank thee for thy touch of softening splendour and beauty amidst grey barrenness,—the carpet of a king amongst briers and rock, thistle and waste. A Blot on the Scutcheon They had reached in the fields a rotting fence, on each side of which grew briers and underwood. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame We descended again into the great theatre, for it fascinated us, nearly breaking our necks where vines and briers tangled, pausing every other minute to rest and consider and dream. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise It was a fine summer morn, early in June, and the clouds in the sky to the east were just the colour of the first brier rosebuds in the hedge by the roadside. Deep Moat Grange Blackberries grew thick, and we made our way carefully among the briers, following the narrow and devious cow-paths. The Jonathan Papers Great trees stood so thickly in places as to make a twilight and the sunnier spots were masses of pink laurel, poison-ivy, flaming purple rhododendron and wine-red tendrils of interbraided briers. The Valiants of Virginia The road itself is sui generis, with its border of rank grass, with tufts of straggling briers, and its rough stone walls, fringed with weeds, and gay with wild flowers. How to Observe Morals and Manners It was not particularly easy to make haste along a narrow path beset with briers and riddled with rabbit holes. The School by the Sea And there I saw the bony brow of Hate; Vile, vicious sneers, the eyes of shriveled Scorn Among the writhing briers; each a thorn Of cavernous hunger barbed with burning fate. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems "Oh, I thought perhaps you preferred cinders or dried briers." The Jonathan Papers He had to make a detour at the creek to avoid the picket at the bridge, and the dense briers in the bottom were very bad and painful. A Captured Santa Claus Carleton stared at the master mechanic for a moment, pulling ruminatively at his brier; then—they were in the super's office at the time—his fist came down with a sudden bang upon the desk. The Night Operator After the corduroy, the trail was a disheartening mixture of water, mud, stumps, roots, logs, briers, and branches. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers We were sons of Nature then; She had taken us to her, Closer drawn by brier and burr, There on lonely Devil's Den. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems Jonathan spends half an hour working his rod and line through a network of bushes, briers, and vines, to drop it in a chosen spot in a pool. The Jonathan Papers Here and there immense brier bushes overhung the way, but these were easily avoided by the animals, who were more afraid of them than were their riders. Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West Harvey, the division engineer, was there, pulling savagely at a brier with empty bowl. The Night Operator Here we've caught your rogue for you—chased him high—chased him low—here, there and everywhere—bushes, burrs and briers, dirt and dust sir—O demmit! Our Admirable Betty A Romance Sitting here in the shade on a hot summer day, with an Austrian brier in full bloom within a few yards of me, I wonder why on earth I ever neglected this garden. The New Gulliver and Other Stories They always grow in hot places, and the briers make you cross; they pull your hair and "sprout" your clothes and scratch your wrists. The Jonathan Papers The specimens taken by me were found in grassy places, usually where briers and shrubs were intermingled with the grass, but not in the woods. The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 Let his majesty put in his sickle here—he shall reap as fine a crop of briers to bind round his brow, as ever grew in a fence-corner! Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Through this I was pushing my way, and had stooped to win past some briers and protect my eyes—when I felt a silk scarf slip across them, muffling my face. The Book of Susan A Novel Those despised briers are all covered with flower at the present moment, and I like them very much. The New Gulliver and Other Stories They've fallen among the briers, and I don't mean to scratch my fingers by trying. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story In the winter months a brier with large red berries and a low, foxy-brown thornbush, like a young osier in March, lend a russet hue to the landscape. The Unveiling of Lhasa There will be briers enough in our way, without taking the trouble to sow them by the road-side. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Now— "Buds are bursting on the brier, And all the kindled greenery glows And life hath richest overflows, And morning fields are fringed with fire." Faith and Unfaith Marvelling at the whole affair and deciding nothing, I allowed myself to stroll down alone to the gate, William having left me at my peremptory refusal to drag my skirts any longer through the briers. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth Tom ran with the hounds for his own sport,—went out shooting with gentlemen, and belabored the briers for them at twopence per day and his dinner,—and abhorred all that sober men call work. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 But the wise always go through the gate; and the little fellow who leaps among the briers or hangs himself in the fence has only himself to blame for the misfortune. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation A brier rose she was whose petals seemed to fall at the touch of definition, a brier rose that was waving out of reach, even of thought. Plashers Mead A Novel The hips were reddening on this rose, Those haws were hung with fire, That day we went this way that goes Up hills of bough and brier. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue "I mean that the briers might tear my dress," explained Miss Thorne, with dignity. East Angels But since the wa', it's all turned out to bushes and briers and hog-weeds. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 For the first league our arms and legs were continually scratched and torn by briers, and only our hats saved us from the fate of Absalom. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Crumbling walls with manes of ivy inclosed a series of gardens rank with docks and nettles and almost impenetrable on account of the matted briers. Plashers Mead A Novel The brown, the bronze, the green, the red Of weed and brier ran riot To walls of woods, whose vistas led To shadowy nooks of quiet. One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue The stones were large, one at the corner measuring six feet in length by three in width, and the sides were covered with thorns and briers. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. After wandering around for a time we blundered into a brier patch and stuck fast in the thorns. The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion In the moonlight the thief went round and about the house, pushing through the trailing briers that clung to him—and now grown bolder he looked closely at doors and windows. Man and Maid I hated so to leave it behind—one of those little yellow brier roses. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Other parts were almost inaccessible, from the density of brakes and thickets, entangled with vines, briers and creeping plants, and intersected by creeks and standing pools. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools Don Simon threw himself into one of the hammocks, and held out one of his legs, which was covered with burrs and briers. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. There are few lianes or spinous briers stretching from tree to tree, obstructing free passage, but a thousand lesser vines drape the low tree tops with myriads of flowers, new and attractive to the visitor. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series We are standing, for instance, on a broken foreground, across which the brier, the dog-rose, and the white bindweed have clasped themselves in fantastic tendrils. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity. The Bible Story Miss Lois never loved the wild ones as she had loved the old-fashioned cinnamon-scented pink and damask roses of her youth, but she gathered and dried these leaves of the brier from habit. Anne Still on she danced—for she could not stop—through thorns and briers, while her feet bled. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series Leaving my horse outside, I went into the ravine on the spoor, which I had great difficulty in following, as the briers and wait-a-bit thorns were troublesome to push through. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Their snares without entangling briers spread, And thistles, arm'd against the invader's head, Stood in close ranks, all entrance to oppose, Thistles! now held more precious than the Rose. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Angus McTavish had a battered brier pipe clenched in his teeth. The Golden Amazons of Venus A setter may stand the cold better and may stand the briers better, but the heat and want of water he cannot stand. The Dog With distracted brain he leaped from a window into a garden, and ran like a wild man through wood and brake, heedless that his clothes were torn and his flesh rent with thorns and briers. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality It was difficult for a man, when moving along these paths, to see many yards on either side, the underwood, briers, and parasitical plants, being matted together like a hedge. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa They were lost in choice between poppyheads, almond blossom, vine leaves, ivy, brier rose and irises, but finally decided to adapt a painting of water-lilies for their purpose. Loyal to the School Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire. Graded Poetry: Third Year There they have these and cat briers also, and that infernal young locust tree almost would skin a pointer. The Dog She stood waist-deep amid the briers; Above in twisted lengths were rolled The sunset's tangled whorls of gold, Blown from the West's mist-fueled fires. Blooms of the Berry Wild-ginger; wahoo, with its wan balloons; And brakes of briers of a twilight green; And fox-grapes plumed with summer; and strung moons Of mandrake flowers between. Undertones Soon getting into a swampy piece of ground, I climbed over fallen trees, plunged into mud holes, tore through brier bushes, and stumbled over stumps, and finally sat down, completely out of breath, to listen. In and Out of Rebel Prisons Custom will soon teach you to tread lightly and barefoot on the little inequalities of ground, and show you how to pass on, unwounded, amid the mantling briers. Wanderings in South America Here we have few or no briers or thorned things, save and except an odd blackberry or raspberry bush. The Dog Thro' matted walls of tangled brier That hedge the lane, the sumachs thrust Their scarlet torches red as rust, Burning with flames of stolid fire. Blooms of the Berry They are as good soldiers as ever breathed; they are as keen as a brier, with not a particle of nonsense about them. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign "Fell down and scratched it on a brier!" said Si, as soon as he was able to speak. Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran It has a sharp clink note and frequents brier patches and bushy places. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season The owlet dingle of vine and brier, That the butterfly-weed flecked fierce with fire. The Garden of Dreams On windy meads where wave white breaks, Where fettered briers' glist'ning hands Reach to the cold moon's ghastly lands, Hoots the lorn owl, and crouching quakes. Blooms of the Berry The whole hungry regiment had been hunt ing blackberries all day, and for more than a mile around camp the briers were bare. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign I stove a brier in my heel wunst, and then had to hunt cows every morning in the dew. Our Southern Highlanders "O bury me by the braken bush, Beneath the blooming brier; Let never living mortal ken That ere a kindly Scot lies here." In the Border Country From thy rude hut, hill-huddled in the brier, What dark familiar points thy sure pursuit, With burning eyes, gaunt with the glow of Hell? The Garden of Dreams Life, it occurred to him, was a brier with renascent thorns. Mary Magdalen Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Old and New London Volume I He was a chestnut burr, abounding with briers without and with substantial goodness within. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Instantly snakes were forgotten, his absorbing passion took full possession, and he crashed recklessly through the briers and laurels in pursuit. Upon The Tree-Tops The crickets' chirr 'neath brier and burr, By leaf-strewn pools and streams, When Autumn stands 'mid the dropping nuts, With the book, she shuts, Of dreams. The Garden of Dreams Bushes, which so often occupy pastures, should be grubbed up, and by all means destroyed; so should all thistles, briers, and large weeds. Soil Culture A rabbit, and down went flowers and berries for a hunt over the stones and briers. The Princess Idleways A Fairy Story Somehow, the brier would not draw, and McTavish impatiently unscrewed the stem from the bowl to investigate. The Wilderness Trail Who among them has not been bewitched by one of those woodland sprites, led a wild dance through bush and brier, satisfied and happy if he could catch an occasional glimpse of the flitting enchanter! Upon The Tree-Tops Poisonous serpents lay across his track; ugly thorns and briers sprang underfoot; at one point a lake barred his way. Legends & Romances of Brittany Some brittle sticks of thorn or brier Make me a fire Close by whose living coal I sit, And glow like it. Eighth Reader Will it come with a rose or a brier? Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 With an exclamation of annoyance, he picked it up, to find that the amber stem had broken off close to the brier, rendering it almost useless. The Wilderness Trail His eyes had been narrowed to see the pitfalls which lined his path, to the stumbling-blocks, the briers, the indescribable sordidness of his personal position and his immediate surroundings. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel They live amid their briers without submission to the Catholic faith or to the monarchy of España. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. The best of them is a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty You know not how long it will take you to get back, or how much you will suffer from the thorns and briers in the wild woods. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order We went through fields and woods and briers and marshy places for a mile or more, when we stopped and mopped our brows and turned homeward without having seen many birds. Under the Maples The briers and thorns tore her arms and face terribly. Old French Fairy Tales Their nests are made under tangled growths of underbrush or briers. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. A bankrupt may fall into the hands of men whose tender-mercies are cruel; or his dishonest equivocations may exasperate their temper and provoke every thorn and brier of the law. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty Along the roadside the little purple flowers of autumn peeped about under the green briers. Dwellers in the Hills "O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the blooming brier; Let never living mortal ken A kindly Scot lies here." The Balladists Famous Scots Series And Bill Dancing, carrying his empty rifle, and with his face bleeding from the briers, made his way down the opposite side of the wash. The Mountain Divide Sitting bolt upright beside the table, square-jawed and obdurate, his stubby brier pipe supported by his hand and gripped in his great teeth, Duke Morgan looked uncompromisingly past his belligerent nephew into the fire. Nan of Music Mountain But, fortunately, the brier pipe came to the rescue with an unexpected legacy from an unsuspected uncle. In a Little Town We rode down to the bend of the Valley River over a stretch of sandy land pre-empted by the cinque-foil and the running brier, the country of the woodcock and the eccentric kildee. Dwellers in the Hills Try as he would he could not let go, and so found himself being dragged along over stones and bushes and briers, while his arms were almost torn out of their sockets. Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas Wind! a word with thee! thou goest where my Well-Preservéd lies On her bed of bonny briers keeping off the wicked flies. The Battle of the Bays Then here you go!” and he threw Brother Rabbit away over into the brier patch. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Valentine.—You're a woman, one to whom Heaven gave beauty when it grafted roses on a brier. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges It is a wonderful thing how the frost glistening on a rail, or a redbird chirping in a thicket of purple raspberry briers, can lift the heart into the sun. Dwellers in the Hills Unvexed with dream of the rough briers that pull From his strayed lambs the wool! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 He had ran upwards of eighty miles, naked except his shirt, and without food; his body nearly exhausted by fatigue, anxiety and hunger, and his limbs greviously lacerated with briers and brush. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Anything!” said Brother Rabbit, “Only don’t throw me into the brier patch.” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The Elderkins chose to follow the road, because they had on their new lawn dresses trimmed with torchon, and "didn't want to get all scrambled up by the briers." Harper's Young People, September 21, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly El Mahdi stood on the high bank by the roadside, in among the dead blackberry briers, and I sat with the rein under my legs and my hands in my pockets. Dwellers in the Hills Therefore I will construct for thee this tomb as a pearl oyster shell, Or shell of the purple dye, or bud on a thorny brier. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture It was a most terrible scramble down the bed of the stream, over jagged rocks, among briers and bushes, and through rushes and reeds. The Manor House School Only don’t throw me into the brier patch,” said Brother Rabbit. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales She slipped easily between the briers, holding her skirt close. The Road to Frontenac The affrighted horse dashed away, dragging the bleeding body by the stirrup,—on, on, on, over rut and rock, bush and brier. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Are there no briers across thy pathway thrust? General Gordon A Christian Hero Just as God leads I onward go, Out amid thorns and briers keen; God does not yet his guidance show— But in the end it shall be seen. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul He ran and ran while his little bare feet were bruised with pebbles, and his legs torn with briers. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales For a space it was hard going through the interwoven bushes and briers that tore even Menard’s tough skin. The Road to Frontenac “Every elf and fairy sprite Hop as light as bird from brier; And this ditty after me Sing, and dance it trippingly.” Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas I had an ugly hour's scramble over the rocks and through a tangle of scrub spruce and briers until I was utterly lost and believed this island an impassable wilderness. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast There are briers besetting every path, Which call for constant care; There is a cross in every lot, And an earnest need for prayer; But a lowly heart, that leans on Thee, Is happy everywhere. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul On and on they sped, over briers and bushes, through fields and forests and swamps. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales By that time they were past the Lachine Rapids and the Sault St. Louis, where the men made a portage, and Danton led the maid along the bank through the tangled brush and briers. The Road to Frontenac His father sat with brier pipe suspended and keen blue eyes fixed on his son, while the son told everything he knew about the reason for his flying trip to Paris. The Dark Star Children are in some ways as keen as briers, and her pupils soon discovered that "teacher" was absent-minded and they whispered right and left. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast Pell-mell the mutineers tumbled down over bush and brier at a breakneck speed to reach the boat that tossed idly on the water to its moorings. Hurricane Island The briers will tear my flesh and scratch my eyes out. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Menard nodded, and walked slowly along the bank, bending aside the briers that caught at his clothes and his hands. The Road to Frontenac The monks' dark robes were covered with dust and torn by briers, and the two holy men made slow progress owing to the heavy wallets full of provisions which they were carrying on their backs. The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose But he was a stranger to Southport Island and the farther away from the sea he got, the thicker grew the tangle of scrub spruce and briers. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast White star-flowers and purple hepaticas nodded on their slender stems, while the crimson and white wood-sorrel fairly ran wild, creeping in and out through bush and brier, like a host of fairies in striped petticoats. Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly I was born and reared in a brier patch.” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Seven years we hacked away at the briers in that path. The Battle with the Slum If men sow nettle-seed or the seed of briers and thorns, is it not fair that they should reap the fruit? The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election His clothes were torn, his hands and face scratched by briers, and to save himself he couldn't make it seem but that the sun was setting in the east! Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast A piece of ground left wild produces nothing but weeds and briers, which by culture would be covered with corn, flowers and fruit. Public School Education Old Pop, the brush-cutter, had arrived, with his deadly one-handed ax, and was busy in the lower brook lot—a desperate place of briers and brush and poison ivy. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm So, scrambling down the embankment, and clambering over the stone-wall, I pushed up the hill through bushes and briers, till, having come as near the bird as I dared, I crouched, and awaited further developments. Birds in the Bush They have turned a deaf ear to the cry of mercy, and are like the ground that has been often rained upon, but brought out only briers and thorns. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election I lost my boat over back here on the shore, and have had a cheerful time among the Mohawk briers. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast We toil and sweat in cultivating the earth, yet it yields us in return nothing but briers and thorns. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood With how sharp thorns and briers God hath to drive some of His sheep! In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers He still wore his fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with sharp briers of the wood. Treasure Island Nay, but because it yielded, instead of good fruit, “briers and thorns.” The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election This winter-eve is warm, Humid the air! leafless, yet soft as spring, The tender purple spray on copse and briers! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold But if he met an obstruction—caught his foot in a root—fell among briers at the outset, he knew he was doomed. Anthony Lyveden Thou art gone, youthful warrior, but a hundred Wyandots are clearing the briers from thy path to the world of spirits. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Dangling brier vines drew blood from arms and face, and sharp thorns repeatedly lacerated hands and knees. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades ‘Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.’ Winning the Wilderness A brier in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand, which she allows To rest ungloved on her green riding-dress; The other warded off the drooping boughs. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Through the house give glimmering light; By the dead and drowsy fire, Every elf and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier; And this ditty after me, Sing and dance it trippingly. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets His legs were bare, and sadly cut and torn by briers. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Amongst their boughs bloomed brilliant orchids and from limb to limb stretched tangled masses of creeping vines and briers. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades There was a fallen log, rotten and fragrant, half buried in the briers, and on it he found a seat, calling his dogs to his feet. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories There was an old cemetery, rambling over many acres, lost in ivy and briers and immense trees, but abundant in ghost stories. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk “There are thorns and briers all along the road.” Fairy Book His dress was half-savage and half-civilized, torn and disfigured, as if he had been running at the top of his speed through a thicket of briers and brambles. The Riflemen of the Miami There were briers, mezcal plants, and many varieties of cactus; all luxuriant, hirsute, and thorny. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography On horseback we go up the mountain paths, through brake and through brier. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales She never stopped to examine it, but leaped from log to log through the briers and water out of the swamp. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Bushes and briers had sprung up about it; but the door was open, and the cattle were inside, lying down. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine “Luck, eh?” he said, picking up a black brier that lay on the table behind him. 'Firebrand' Trevison Not for her the cowslips in the upland pastures, the hawthorn in the hedges, the elm-boughs high against the breezy sky, the first dog-roses pink upon the briers. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Soon she became more enterprising herself, and made little excursions into the copse, surmounting briers, and passing through tangled places like a Naiad, before he could be there to help her. Tom Brown at Oxford A short descent sent a stream slowly curling away under masses of green briers. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk They proceeded slowly, for the briers were so thick in many places that they could hardly make any progress at all when they neared the branch. Two Little Confederates Nest—Of grass and reeds, placed on the ground in a tussock of grass, where there is a growth of briers. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 He seeks to get rid of the weeds and briers and poisonous plants, in order that the desired products may grow to perfection. Standards of Life and Service I ’low it’ll take a heap o’ presents to make up for the burrs an’ briers an’ 324 sharp stones she had to foot it over. A Virginia Scout After he pulled the brier out, there was a whole pailful of blood, which frightened old Blackey so much that they were obliged to blindfold her. Minnie's Pet Horse Under the dense underbrush of cane and briers throughout much of the virgin forest, reproduction of any of the merchantable species is of course impossible. Seasoning of Wood It may dart along close to the ground or amid an impenetrable tangle of briers, but still it is always visible from above. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year As it was, the briers spread a hundred cruel claws against her; with each upward step she encountered greater resistance; desperation only added to her panic, and she struggled frenziedly. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The advance was through nettles and briers, up steep muddy banks and over fallen timber. A Virginia Scout Of course I do; and the mile I ran for the doctor, when she snuffed that long brier up into her nose. Minnie's Pet Horse The Roman soldier cut him down when he was dreamin', and they let his tomb all grow up to briers. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin But occasionally a substantial ball of dead leaves will be noticed, swung amid a tangle of brier. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year She need not risk tearing her dress among the briers which clung to the hillside. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Let him, that is a true born gentleman, And stands upon the honor of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Taking the child with them, they stumbled over the loose stones and among the briers as well as their want of strength would permit, for they were much exhausted. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days The lively blacks resented the scratching of briers and broken branches upon their tender limbs and pranced and fretted wildly. Dorothy on a Ranch A whirl of brown leaves scatters in front of us; some fall back to earth; others rise and perch in the thick briers,—sombre little white-throated and tree sparrows! The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Shrinking back under cover of a leafy brier, he began a third sketch in which the dominant note was the contrast between the living woman and the marble Venus. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The flicker devours most of the fruits listed for the two woodpeckers named above, also hackberry, black alder, green brier, bayberries. Seed Dispersal O far too soft, too good, too fair, to be cast among the briers of this working-day world, and fall and bleed upon the thorns of life! Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical At the angle of a gate and a thick brier hedge he struck a match and read the time by his watch. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time In the scramble to secure a good foothold, the briers tore our clothes and bonnets, sometimes so as to make us fairly ragged, besides scratching our hands and faces terribly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Some blackberry briers had also grown there, so that the screen was perfect. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs At sunrise he chased an early rabbit into an impenetrable, frost-incrusted brier patch. Frank of Freedom Hill "When flowery hints foresay the berry, On spray of haw and tuft of brier, Then, wandering incendiary, You set the maple swamps afire!" Birds of the Rockies She was the very daisy, primrose, tuberose, sweet brier, furze blossom, gilliflower, wall flower, cauliflower, auricula, and rosemary! English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. He looked all about him, and there was nothing at all there but a switch made of brier lying on 38 a shelf behind the door. Tales of Folk and Fairies His small, cunning eyes were shining in a face that was flayed by the briers; his beard and his long lank hair were streaming with water from the branches. Tartarin On The Alps He looked weary and footsore and his clothes were torn by briers. Frank of Freedom Hill He was in his shirt sleeves for greater comfort, and he smoked particularly strong plug tobacco in a brier pipe. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Stent, working more slowly and methodically on his squared map paper, the smoke drifting fragrantly from his brier pipe, nodded in silence, glancing down now and then at the barometer and compass between them. Barbarians All along the edge o' the valley are briers an' vines, on which the berries growed. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods The trees owned at one time by Dr. Stubbs seem not to be cultivated at all, but are grazed and mowed, and the orchard is now rather a tangle of briers and weeds. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 Perhaps the great stroke of genius which endears Perrault's version is in the splendid boots with which his tale provides the hero so that briers may not interfere with his doings. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The splendor of her kerchief had been faded by sun and rain; her skirts were torn by briers, but the necklace of silver beads wound many times about her throat retained its glory. Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola ‘O see not ye yon narrow road, So thick beset wi’ thorns and briers? Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series The little window dim and dark Was hung with ivy, brier, and yew; No shimmering sun here ever shone; No wholesome breeze here ever blew. The Book of Brave Old Ballads I refer to gardens, parks, lawns, and, in general, to pieces of land so situated that, were they left to grow up to weeds and briers, they would be eyesores and inconveniences to all about. Looking Backward 2000-1887 There she saw a wee Robin Redbreast hopping on a brier bush. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk But about two hours before daylight there was a great outcry, and the sentinels, running to the spot, found a white man blindfolded and hands bound, tied in a thicket of briers. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Just to show how tough I was I used to take a blackberry limb and take my toes and skin the briers off and it wouldn't hurt my feets. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 There are several hundred now, scattered through a waste of briers and scrub and overgrown with moss. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science How was she to cope with all the difficulties that beset her path like sharp-thorned briers? Margaret Montfort Then the wee Robin and the wee Wren flew away home to the wee Robin’s own brookside, and hopped on the brier bush. Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk He had tried to come in the direction in which he thought Detroit lay, but he had become tangled among the briers, and then he had shouted at the top of his voice. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand Sheep is dreadful fools; I expect they heard a strange step, and set right off through bush an' brier, spite of all she could do. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Off the path, the underbrush was almost impassable; the vine-maple, with crooked stems and tangled branches, with coarse briers and vines, knit every thing together. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California In consonance with this idea it is never said among the people that a person has been bitten by a snake, but that he has been “scratched by a brier.” The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398 Oh see ye not yon narrow road So thick beset wi' thorns and briers? Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University The briers and grass were tangled considerably, and, as he looked closely, his eyes caught a tint of red on the earth. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The grass was growing within the enclosure, with weeds and briers, while the logs that formed it were covered with moss, and were crumbling to decay. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West Again they went, through brier and through thicket, Into the darksome wood; Again he dropped his clues along the pathway Behind him when he could. On the Tree Top But now I am the sickest bird That ever sat on brier; And I wad mak' my testament, Gudeman, if ye wad hear. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Presently, as he turned into a grass-grown carrefour, a mere waste of wild-flowers and tangled briers, he caught his ankle in a strand of ivy and fell headlong. Lorraine A romance I catch once more the smell of the brier. Mushrooms on the Moor Down a steep, mossy crag, hung with brier and blossom, came tumbling, with loud laughter like merry girls at play, a little mountain stream. Shadows of Shasta They search for blackberries, so weak And starving they are grown, Now through a thicket of wild brier, Now ’gainst a hindering stone! On the Tree Top Still that continued a land of the earth, bearing the thorn as well as the rose, having briers as well as berries. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm She stood on the edge of the brier tangle as he laboured up the slope with the horse and cart. Lorraine A romance There were roses and hollyhocks like rows of sentinels, and sweet brier clambering about. A Little Girl of Long Ago Without heeding the briers, he fled to his friends; he did not even stop there, but plunged into the bushes, and above them I saw his head and hands moving together in an excited colloquy. David Malcolm No field was ever so well tilled but therein or nettles or thistles or somewhat of briers or other weeds might be found mingled with the better herbs. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Why do you drag me on through mist, through thorns and briers, through ashes and embers, over heaps of ruins? The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy As Jack sprang into the brier tangle towards him, a slim figure in the black garments of the Sisters of Mercy rose from Sir Thorald's side. Lorraine A romance The efficiency of much pasture land is kept low by poor stands of grass, the encroachment of weeds, bushes, and briers, close grazing, and the failure to supply fertility. Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement She pointed over the tangled briers to the woods, to the very spot where the path breaks through the bushes and leads to the brook. David Malcolm Her house is in the brier thicket; she climbs to the roof and stands there all day waving her hands, and shouting out in wood-talk, 'There are cocoanuts in my cellar.' Woodland Tales Then he took desert thorns and briers, and with these he thrashed the leading men of Succoth. The Children's Bible O bury me by the braken-bush Beneath the bluming brier; Let never living mortal ken That a kindly Scot lies here!' Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 "Dy ah she go!" arose from a dozen throats, and gone she was, in fact, safe in a thicket of briers which no dog nor negro could penetrate. The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908 Then I tucked her hand beneath my arm, and, standing there in the deep weeds and briers, we looked about the clearing. David Malcolm Some reapers coming near see lying under the briers the poor old reaper with his upturned face, peaceful and quiet, now in death, but bearing the look of an answered prayer. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 A short distance from the palace, within sight of the square, a fort or inclosure, about nine feet high, had been built of adobe, and surrounded by a pile of tall, prickly briers. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver My father had seen him, not on his visit of inquiry, but on a few days after, bill-hook in hand, hacking away manfully at the briers and brambles of the garden. Country Lodgings But we soon set to work in earnest and began to beat a little bottom lying between two hills, through which ran a ditch, thickly grown up with bushes and briers. The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908 How fast the weeds and briers had grown, defying the Professor's languid hoe! David Malcolm He seemed to hang rather than stand there, half Ghost-like, half like a beggar's rag, clean wrung And useless on the brier where it has hung Long years a-washing by sun and wind and rain. Last Poems On the banks of these lakes, grow in rich profusion, the rose, the violet, the lily and the sweet brier. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Across one cheek were some brier scratches which he had acquired the day before, but which he had never noticed. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War Suddenly there was a movement, a sort of scamper, a rash, as something slipped out of the heavy grass at our feet and vanished in the thick briers of the ditch bank. The Long Hillside A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia 1908 Let me sit down here behind this screen of ferns and briers, and hear this wild-hen of the woods call together her brood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 "But see: they have fallen, every one, And brier and bramble have grown over them." Last Poems A boy who is as keen as a brier and smart as a whip cannot be expected to wear "humbly" clothes forever. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 FitzPatrick sat absolutely imperturbable on the deacon-seat, looking straight in front of him, his legs stretched comfortably aslant, one hand supporting the elbow of the other, which in turn held his short brier pipe. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Some brittle sticks of thorn or brier Make me a fire, Close by whose living coal I sit, And glow like it. English Songs and Ballads Woods such as ebony, sandalwood, cherry, brier, box, pear-tree, lancewood, and many others, are all good for the carver, but are better fitted for special purposes and small work. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship At each repetition of his name her voice became shriller, while, as she endeavoured to screen herself in the underwood, a soft plumage began to cover her delicate limbs, which were wounded by the briers. Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian I see the ragged, overgrown, straggling fence at the far end, glistening with morning dew, and green with formidable briers. Kate Coventry An Autobiography The brush was exceedingly difficult to avoid, and a little patch of briers was worse. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Through the house give glimmering light, By the dead and drowsy fire: Every elf and fairy sprite Hop as light as bird from brier; And this ditty, after me, Sing, and dance it trippingly. English Songs and Ballads The sportsman, becoming excited, rushed forward with rapid strides, thrusting aside the briers which stood in his path, and he disappeared in his turn into the thicket, in quest of his game. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories Instead of levity, we are liable to moroseness: for always near the grave there are more briers than flowers, unless we plant them ourselves, or our friends supply them. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Had there been briers or brambles, or swampy ground, or that which was unusually dry, and covered with twigs, it would have been a feat far more difficult of attainment. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys When she raised her head again he was staring calmly at the fire as before, one hand clasped under his arm, the other holding the bowl of his brier pipe. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Evils grow as weeds grow in the garden, as thorns and thistles and briers cover the untended fields. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View There was no trail, and travelling through this tangle of briers was very difficult. The Aztec Treasure-House There are many in our Tuscany who would jump at the crown over those sloughs and briers, rather than perish without them: she never sighs after the like. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection With the speed of fire Orlando followed where the enchantress fled, Rending and scattering tree and bush and brier, And leaving wide the vestige of his tread. Gryll Grange He had nothing on his wasted and bleeding body, which was all torn by briers and brushwood, except a cloth about his loins, and he was afraid of being mistaken and shot for an Indian. Stories Of Ohio And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. The Parables of Our Lord Let him who would be convinced read the description of the forest Mormal, that forest whose breath was perfumed with nothing less delicate than sweet brier. The Bibliotaph and Other People Cotton affirmed: "Better tolerate hypocrites and tares than thorns and briers." The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 In such a situation he was hindered and wounded by briers and thorns, and at last was obliged to hide himself in a dry ditch from his pursuers. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. The next night he reached the Muskingum, naked, torn by briers, and covered with the mosquitoes which swarmed upon his bleeding body. Stories Of Ohio He and Manasseh held the briers aside with two of them and laid the third as a bridge for Blanka to pass over unharmed. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania "I have been thinking over those trousers—" began the Commandant, picking his way between the briers that threatened to choke the path. Major Vigoureux My limbs are covered with swellings from the bites of insects and torn from forcing my way through briers and thorny bushes; my eyes close involuntarily from lack of sleep and excessive fatigue. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI Life to me has been a scramble through briers. The Blunders of a Bashful Man For those who preferred quality to quantity, and who did not mind getting torn by briers, this was undoubtedly the place to come. For the Sake of the School And you will be much too handsome, my brier rose, to shut yourself up in any Recollet house. A Little Girl in Old Detroit The clothing of some became torn with briers and sharp rocks, their shoes were damaged with stones, fallen limbs, muck and mire. The Kentucky Ranger Thus enjoyment is turned into bitterness, and life becomes like a journey barefooted among thorns and briers and prickles. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Merrily swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountainside or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name. Stories of Birds INTERY, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed, and apple thorn; Wine, brier, limber lock, Three geese in a flock, One flew east, one flew west, And one flew over the goose's nest. The Little Mother Goose Too good, too fair to be cast among the briers of this working day world and fall and bleed upon the thorns of life. Shakspere, Personal Recollections Margaret was buried in the lower chancel, Sweet William in the higher; Out of her breast there sprung a rose, And out of his a brier. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Once I became entangled in a wilderness of grapevines and briers, and had much difficulty in getting through them. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer E. H. A. Canker or Brier Rose.—Can any of your correspondents tell me why the brier or dog-rose was anciently called the canker? Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. We see one pathway we long to tread even though it is beset with stones and briers. Girls and Women Fairy says: "Over hill, over dale, Through bush, through brier, Over park, over pale, Through flood, through fire, Farewell, thou wit of spirits, I'll be gone; Our queen and all her elves come here anon." Shakspere, Personal Recollections What a child you always were to tear your frocks and get berry stains on your white aprons and scratch your fingers and arms with briers! The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story With fingers suddenly strengthened into the power of iron, she swung herself down by brier, and broom, and heather, and dwarf-birch. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The brier is particularly free from the disease so called, and the name does not appear to have been used in disparagement. Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. So long have the gray bare walks lain guestless, Through branches and briers if a man make way, He shall find no life but the sea-wind's, restless Night and day. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 They spoke of days bygone, so gladsome and gay, When the dew was yet fresh on life's new-trodden way; For on memory's page Youth traces its roses; its briers old age. Essays on Scandinavian Literature The fairy, in answer to Puck's question whither it wandered, replied that it went over hill, over dale, through bush, through brier, over park, over pale, through flood, through fire. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales And plant it round with holy briers, To fright away the fairy fires!— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 She had on a sunbonnet and heavy gloves, and stood in a dense patch of prickly blackberry briers which reached to her shoulders. Dixie Hart "Mark--ma-ark!" bang! bang! "mark, Harry Archer, mark," came down the wind in quick succession from the other party, who were beating some thick briers by the brook side, at three or four fields' distance. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Moved by one impulse we turned from the stream and remarked what bosh people will sometimes talk, and discussed the coming Italian trip as we moved cautiously among the briers. The Joyful Heart I look at my worn and rubbed high-laced boots, at my riding-clothes, snagged with many briers and patched from many saddles, at my old brown velours hat, survival of many storms in many countries. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Each effort seemed only to entangle him more hopelessly in the briers and tall grasses which grew thickly on all sides. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know She parted the clinging briers and came quite close to him in one of the fence corners which was infested with the wild growth. Dixie Hart After a little pause, again we started, and, hailing one another now and then, gradually forced our way through brake and brier toward the outward verge of the dense covert. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago A forgotten lumber road led us safe from briers up a hill. The Joyful Heart He studied by the fire-light and practiced writing with a pen made from a buzzard's quill dipped in ink made from brier roots. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 Then, too, the way was rough, and the briers and brambles along the path scratched their hands and tore at their clothing. The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained No neater farm a nabob owns, Its care his chief employ, To find fertility in bones And briers to destroy, Where once he lightly skipped the stones A whistling, happy boy. Poems Vol. IV If your new black sash catches in the briers, let it catch; heed it not, for he is making wonderful play with that lame leg up the hill. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers If a piece of brush or brier sticks to the dress, name it. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk Eventually my brier became as serviceable as formerly, though not, perhaps, so handsome. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke It is to be hoped that Thoreau enjoyed his surveying, as he probably did, especially when it took him through sphagnum swamps or scrub-oak thickets or a tangle of briers and thorns. The Last Harvest There were but few of what may be called trees—only herbaceous plants, immense turfs, briers, mosses, rare families, which, however, in those days were counted by tens and tens of thousands. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Seven centuries later, St. Francis of Assisi planted on that spiritual battle field two rose trees, which grew and survived the Benedictine thorns and briers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 In this cramped position his progress was extremely painful, and his hands were torn by the briers and stones; but forward he dashed, fully expecting a shower of bullets every minute. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War He almost yielded, and showed us that while we smoked he had been holding his empty brier in his right hand. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke And down to the depths of the dark underwood they passed, by a steep, narrow path, down through the tangled briers and bending ferns, until they reached the banks of the stream. By Berwen Banks It offers to the world not barren land claiming the virtue of freedom from the thorn and the brier, it crowns all with the abundance and glory of fir and myrtle. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals There's six or seven acres of it nothin' in the world but mud and briers will you let me take hold of it. Queechy, Volume II But the fox followed him, paying no attention to the briers and thorns. Bumper, The White Rabbit I tried another brier, and it made me unhappy. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke "And do you ride that way over bush and brier, through mirk and daylight?" The Lady of Fort St. John There grew in bonnie Scotland A thistle and a brier, And aye they twined and clasp'd, Like sisters, kind and dear. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Let the thorns and briers which have grown up around it be rooted up. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Thorns and briers and thistles sprang up on every hand; and animals which before had been peaceful began to fight and destroy each other. Our Unitarian Gospel Gilray's fingers tried to draw my brier from my mouth, but I bit into it with my teeth, and still I puffed. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke As on the brier the budding rose Still richer breathes and fairer blows, So in my tender bosom grows The love I bear my Willy. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The broom, the brier, the birken bush, Bloom bonny o'er thy flowery lea, And a' the sweets that ane can wish Frae Nature's hand, are strew'd on thee. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century This sally, however, only made Oo-koo-hoo smile the more as he puffed away at his brier. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Dismounting under the bluff and tying his horse, he had many times toiled and sweated up the ascent, and let himself down again, bruised and scratched by stones and briers. Old Kaskaskia Undoubtedly this was the explanation, for even before the rim came I was a little puzzled by the taps of the brier. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke I. O Bonnie was yon rosy brier, That blooms sae far frae haunt o’ man, And bonnie she, and ah, how dear! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham It was the brier that signified the meaning of the place to the old lady. The Shield of Silence She was already far away among the trees, skirts wrapped close to avoid briers, big straw hat dangling in one hand. The Danger Mark It is derived from the French bruyère, heath—the root of the White Heath being the material known as "briar" or "brier," and at first as "bruyer." The Social History of Smoking I tried to lift my brier from the table, but my hand shook and the pipe tapped, tapped on the deal like an auctioneer's hammer. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke I enclose the sheet open, both for your inspection, and that you may copy the song “Oh bonnie was yon rosy brier.” The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The stream was wide and deep, and near the middle of it and opposite the spot where Dan stood, was a little island thickly covered with briers and cane. The Boy Trapper Out of the merriment, Clear as the glisten Of dew on the brier, A silver warning! More Songs From Vagabondia The word "brier" or "briar" has no connexion whatever with the prickly, thorny briar which bears the lovely wild rose. The Social History of Smoking "Let me fill it," Jimmy said, and he took my old brier from me. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke We wander there, we wander here, We eye the rose upon the brier, Unmindful that the thorn is near, Among the leaves; And tho’ the puny wound appear, Short while it grieves. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham There was a wagon in the field, and Don and Bert Gordon were passing back and forth between it and a little thicket of bushes and briers that stood a short distance away. The Boy Trapper The eye was no longer gladdened as before with the sight of green meadows and yellowing harvests, but rather afflicted by the aspect of briers and thistles, which clustered everywhere. Leaves from a Field Note-Book Like most boys of Seacove, as well as Elmvale, Whistler was familiar with this stretch of untamed ground and plunged into it with full knowledge of its tangled brier patches and rough quarries. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats Jimmy handed the brier to Gilray, who did not surrender it until it reached my mouth. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke On each side, it is beset with thorns, and briers, and miry pits. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister The low briers tore her dress, the tall briers scratched her hands and pulled her hair. Honey-Sweet For a minute, and then another, Rankin said nothing; then he knocked the ashes from the bowl of his brier and laid it upon the table. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman I knocked him over just below your garden fence in a little patch of briers. Princess At such times I have my brier in my mouth, but there is no harm in that, for it is empty. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke There are, however, many indispensable varieties that do better for the infusion of vigorous brier blood. The Garden, You, and I His hands and legs, and even his face, were criss-crossed with many brier scratches. Ole Mammy's Torment Rural delights! murmurous and gorgeous decorations! gardens thick with brier and rose! Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers It was the Provençal Troubadour who, like the Prince in the fairy tale, broke through the hedge of briers and kissed Beauty awake again. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 Though I am compelled to say that I do not consider his character very lovable, he has his good points, and I like his attachment to his brier. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke The very old bush of thorny, half-double brier roses with petals of soft yellow crêpe, in which the sunbeams caught and glinted, took the lead as usual. The Garden, You, and I She had scarcely finished this employment, when she heard quick approaching footsteps, and, glancing round, saw De Valette pushing heedlessly through brier and bush, and Hero trotting gravely at his side. The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World All night alone by brier and stone I ran that road unshod, So I might know instead of her The pains that lead to God. The Haunted Hour An Anthology A long gun lay on the ground beside him, and his garments, made chiefly of the dressed skins of animals, defied brier or thorn. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters The man through the wall smokes each of these three pipes nightly, beginning with the brier. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke After a while he left the main road, and without any reason at all for so doing, he plunged into the tangle of laurel, rhododendron bushes, vines, and briers. Westerfelt Life's an odd pattern of briers and roses, Clouds sometimes darken, nor sun shining through, Then the cloud lifts and the sun light discloses Near to me, dear to me—Some one like you. Some One Like You Margaret was buried in the lower chancel, And William in the higher; And out of her breast there sprang a rose tree, And out of his a brier. The Haunted Hour An Anthology The lane was wide enough to pass in file, with chilly droppings from the boughs above, and rude re-action of the briers beneath. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies I have an uneasy feeling that I never did justice to meerschaums, and for this reason: I only smoked them after my brier was hot, so that I never gave them a fair chance. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke Merrily swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The squatters' settlements in the Park were surrounded by swamps, and overgrown with briers, vines, and thickets. Fifth Avenue |
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