Things being thus, what can be more charming than a rural excursion to some tangled thicket, the very brambles, and poison-ivy, and possible copperhead snakes of which are points of unspeakable value to a picnic party, because they are sensational, and one cannot have them in the city without rushing into fabulous extra expense.

There was a large room, or what had been a large room, with the lower part of the windows still existing, on the principal floor, and underneath other windows, which were perfect, though half filled up with fallen soil, and waving with a wild growth of brambles and chance growths of all kinds.

I made a spring backwards in the first moment of surprise and horror, and in doing so came sharply against the same rough masonry and brambles that had struck me before.

Nothing,the juniper-bush which I thought I had never seen before, the heavy growth of the glistening ivy, the brambles waving.

I was confounded by this, though it was entirely a matter of detail nothing at all,a bush of brambles waving, the grass growing up to the very walls.

Orlando had "real" trees and hawthorns and brambles upon which to hang his verses; and he made lavish use of them.

On this October day, the heather yet sturdily bore a few last rosy blossoms, and the ripe blackberries shone like black diamonds on the straggling brambles.

I found it at last in the shape of a huge block of granite, half hidden by the brambles and stunted trees which had grown up round it.

Except for the dripping brambles immediately outside I could soon see absolutely nothing; beyond that it was like staring into a blanket.

Buttoning up my slop, I advanced carefully through the dripping brambles.

" S. "We will allow them at least the honour which we do to the wild boar, who rushes fiercely through thorns and brambles upon the dogs, not to be turned aside by spears or tree-trunks, and indeed charges forward the more valiantly the more tightly he shuts his eyes.

If you say I'm so fat, I'll pitch you into the first patch o' brambles we come to.

There was a rush under some low boughs, and another rush over a patch of brambles and tall bracken; then the cob made a bold dash at a dense mass of low growth, when there was a violent jerk as he made a bound, followed by a feeling as if the boy's arms were being torn out at the shoulders, a rush through the air, a heavy blow, and a sensation of tearing, and all was, giddiness and pain.

"If yer don't leave off I'll drag yer through all the worst brambles and pitch yer to my tigs.

About seven o'clock I walked, or scrambled my way through close-matted spruce and brambles to get a view of the open lake.

The stony path was bordered by brambles, overclimbed by clematis, whose glistening awns were mingled with blackberries, which not even a child troubled to pick.

Here he falls in love with Winifred Jenkins, Miss Tabitha Brambles's maid, and turns out to be a natural son of Mr. Bramble.

Here I've been wandering for more than three hours, up hill and down, through brambles and brier-bushes; my hands are scratched and bloody, and the sun has burnt me as brown as a berry.

Now it was dark; and, terrible work breaking through brambles and hazels and tumbling over rocks.

The inhabitants of this country buckle stilts on to their feet, so as to make their way faster through brambles and underbrush which surrounds them.

The witty Rosalind declares to Orlando, in her bantering way, that "there is a man haunts the forest, that abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind ...

last summer green things were greener, Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.

The Visionary, whose Name was Marraton, after having travelled for a long Space under an hollow Mountain, arrived at length on the Confines of this World of Spirits; but could not enter it by reason of a thick Forest made up of Bushes, Brambles and pointed Thorns, so perplexed and interwoven with one another, that it was impossible to find a Passage through it.

He no sooner got rid of his impotent Enemy, but he marched up to the Wood, and after having surveyed it for some Time, endeavoured to press into one Part of it that was a little thinner than the rest; when again, to his great Surprize, he found the Bushes made no Resistance, but that he walked through Briars and Brambles with the same Ease as through the open Air; and, in short, that the whole Wood was nothing else but a Wood of Shades.

o'er my shoulders slung, A nutting-crook in hand; and turned my steps Tow'rd some far-distant wood, a Figure quaint, Tricked out in proud disguise of cast-off weeds Which for that service had been husbanded, 10 By exhortation of my frugal Dame Motley accoutrement, of power to smile At thorns, and brakes, and brambles,and, in truth, More ragged than need was!