| 单词 | briery |
| 例句 | The little things, the little briery things of life were holding her fast, tripping her headlong desires. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Here he loves to hide in such low, briery, bushy tangles as the chat and catbird choose. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The captive beauty soon I bound My lady's bosom to adorn,— Beauty whose joy I ne'er had found, Upon that tangled briery mound, But for the sharp and friendly thorn. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Nay, as within her briery brake, The Sleeping Beauty did awake, Old tales may rouse them for your sake. The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z The light fell full on his clothes, tattered by his briery flight, the long dishevelment of his yellow hair, his burning face, and the blazing fury in his brown eyes. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z It is our own fault if we insist upon clambering over the rocky barriers, and scrambling through the briery hedges, in a mad eagerness to reach the goal. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The deep marshy ground, plashy with rivulets and melted snow, he waded through ankle deep, climbing the briery rocks and steep banks without a moment's halt. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) This path will tell me where dark daisies dance To the white sycamores that dell them in; Where crow and flicker cry melodious din, And blackberries in ebon ripeness glance Luscious enticings under briery green. Song-Surf We hear them most often in bushy fields and open second-growths, along hedge-rows or from briery clumps in which the bird's nest may be hidden. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season All the blasts that ever blew must be unavailing against the briery rock that shelters the hut from the airt of storms; and the smoke may rise under its lee, unwavering on the windiest day. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) He ran recklessly away into the rose garden; he caught a bumblebee; he pursued a daddy long-leg with the watering-pot, going deeper and deeper all the time among the briery branches. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Well, on a tangled, briery hillside—for the pasture would bear a little further cleaning up, to my eyes—there lie scattered thickly various lengths of petrified trunk, such as the one already mentioned. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) He had blazed for himself, some time before, a roundabout trail through the briery underbrush from the inn to within a few hundred feet of the cabin. At the Crossroads Night came, and forth the sorrowing household went With torches over the wide pasture-grounds, To pool and thicket, marsh and briery dell, And solitary valley far away. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition "Thou art a briery little Rose," and he smiled into her eyes and kissed her. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The undergrowth was a nuisance, being composed of pea-vines, clover, nettles, cane and briery berry bushes. A Virginia Scout On one side, stretching away into the dim distance, lie fields already reaped; upon the other, a bank, covered with briery vines, rises steeply into the darkness. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Miry was one o' your briery, scratchy gals, that seems to catch fellers in thorns. Oldtown Fireside Stories Miss Phelps, young herself, glanced angrily at her briery charge, longingly at the brilliant blue of sky and bay beyond the long window. The Californians It was a part of the continuation of Orlando's adventure in the enchanted garden, when, himself pursued and scourged by La Penitenza, he was pursuing the Fata Morgana over rugged rocks and through briery thickets. Gryll Grange Gardening, berry-picking, and she helped with the gooseberries, the briery vines she did not like. A Little Girl in Old Salem By Thomas Buchanan Read The road was lone; the grass was dank With night-dews on the briery bank Whereon a weary reaper sank. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 "You are the same briery rose, Jeanne," with an amused laugh. A Little Girl in Old Detroit It is social, yet not averse to solitude, singing often in groups, and as often by itself in the furze brake, or on the briery knoll. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 A Zephyr loved the blushing flower, With sigh and fond love tale; It woo'd within its briery bower The rose of Seaton Vale. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet. The Friendships of Women Now loud and clear the blackbirds' sang Rings through the briery shaw, While flitting, gay, the swallows play Around the castle wa'. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Here at the foot of the slope the winter sun lay warm, and here in the sheltered briery border I came upon the Christmas birds. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists On—on—on! through briery brake—matted thicket—grassy glade—On—on—on! further into the Forest! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 There were numerous places of partial shelter known to the shepherd, and he soon led the way to a kind of cave, pretty well concealed by overhanging rocks and trailing, briery stems. Winter Evening Tales Over in a sheltered spot behind the vault clambered a huge, overgrown, briery rose, and by some sweet impatience of nature one shoot had budded before its time. A Woman Named Smith Just beyond, the Dingles wind irregularly up from the foot-path below to the crest of Welcombe hill, through straggling clumps and briery hollows, sweet with nodding bluebells, ash, and hawthorn. Master Skylark Her dress was a plain slip of bright calico, which had four-inch roses, very briery and each with a gaudy butterfly poised upon the topmost petals running over it in an inextricable tangle. Good Indian It would be difficult for snakes and squirrels to penetrate that briery thicket. The Song of the Cardinal Well, on a tangled, briery hillside - for the pasture would bear a little further cleaning up, to my eyes - there lie scattered thickly various lengths of petrified trunk, such as the one already mentioned. The Silverado Squatters How often have I strolled down the woody paths, spangled with the dew of morning, and shaken off the briery branches that hung about me! Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire They walked over the grassy, briery, unmarked mounds of old graves to the spot where a pile of yellow earth denoted Old Barton's resting-place. The Story of Kennett Cope presently found himself scuffling through the thin grass and the briery thickets alongside the young business-man. Bertram Cope's Year I did not hear the voice of the turtle, but a nightingale sang in the briery thickets by the brook side, as we passed along. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 We crawled through a briery place to where a gap opened to the vale on our left. Salute to Adventurers The glad creek rose high above its banks and wandered from its channel out over many a briery sand-flat and meadow. The Mountains of California It is even more vigorous than the preceding, but not so briery or branching. Success with Small Fruits It was a grassy, briery, moist channel, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side. Stories by English Authors: England Annie looked as if she might become a briery one at that moment, for this direct style of compliment, though honest, was not agreeable. Opening a Chestnut Burr He stretched out his arms to beckon me home; and when I would not budge, he scrambled through the briery hedge and took me, whether I would or no, into his strenuous embrace. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca His heart palpitated-he thought at first that the villainous Indians had stripped them, and left them to wander in a state of nature through the tangled and briery woods. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 She was not much given to satire, and the young men soon learned that she would say more briery things to their faces than behind their backs. An Original Belle I took my neighbor to see this briery wilderness, and asked his advice. Driven Back to Eden But in a land where the woodlands are well-kept groves, and the undergrowth, instead of being weedy and briery, is sweet-scented fern and gorse and bracken, I suppose it is all eminently correct. Europe Revised Sitting down at her desk she wrote a short note to Mrs. Harvey, in which she briery outlined her reasons for going. Flappers and Philosophers It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side. Wessex Tales In the most inaccessible part of such a briery tangle, that rollicking polyglot, the yellow-breasted chat, loves to hide its nest. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Now loud and clear the blackbird's sang Rings through the briery shaw, While, flitting gay, the swallows play Around the castle wa'. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 Hark! the raven flaps his wing In the briery dell below; Hark! the death-owl loud doth sing, To the night-mares as they go. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Dimpled, and soft, and pink as peach-tree blossoms, In April's fragrant days, How can they walk among the briery tangles, Edging the world's rough ways? The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 |
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