424 examples of brier in sentences

But the way was hard, for sometimes we got completely stuck in brier patches, and had to turn and go back, in order to find a way out.

They seek the wood with eager pace, Through bush, through brier, explore the chase.

Stanford Quad. ~Conditioned.~ Dear old pipe, my oldest friend, Brier of darkest hue, How I long to smoke and dream I'm in love with you.

" Here the old ex-attorney spat and renewed the tobacco in a black brier, then proceeded to draw the parrallel between dogs and horses and Peter Siner newly returned from Harvard.

R. LUTEA (syn R. Eglanteria).The Austrian Brier, or Yellow Eglantine.

This belongs to the Sweet Brier section, and is a bush of from 3 feet to 6 feet high, with shining dark-green leaves, and large, cup-shaped flowers that are yellow or sometimes tinged with reddish-brown within.

The Scarlet Austrian Brier (R. lutea punicea) is a handsome variety, with the upper surface of the petals scarlet and the under surface yellow.

R. RUBIGINOSA (syn R. Eglanteria).Eglantine, or Sweet Brier.

Van Bibber thought a brier pipe, with an amber mouth-piece and a silver band, would about suit his fancy.

The man had just such a pipe, with trade-marks on the brier and hall-marks and "Sterling" on the silver band.

As he left the shop he saw a lot of pipes, brier and corn-cob and Sallie Michaels, in the window marked, "Any of these for a quarter."

"O bury me by the bracken bush, Beneath the bloomin' brier; Let never a living mortal ken That ever a kindly Scot lies here.

" "Thou shalt not yield to lord or loon, Nor yet shalt thou yield to me, But thou shalt yield to the bracken bush That grows on yon lilye lea." "I will not yield to a bracken bush; Nor yet will I yield to a brier; But I would yield to Erle Douglas, Or Hugh Montgomerie if he were here.

They were well trained, swift, fresh, keen-scented, 'excellent' men-hunters, and though the poor fugitive in his frenzied rush for liberty, strained every muscle, yet they gained upon him, and after dashing through fens, brier-beds, and the tangled undergrowth till faint and torn, he sinks, and the blood-hounds are upon him.

They were well trained, swift, fresh, keen-scented, 'excellent' men-hunters, and though the poor fugitive in his frenzied rush for liberty, strained every muscle, yet they gained upon him, and after dashing through fens, brier-beds, and the tangled undergrowth till faint and torn, he sinks, and the blood-hounds are upon him.

But I am so weak that I return to it again and again, as a smoker does to his brier-wood.

Beneath the crimson brier bush, by Frances K. Judd, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

SEE BRIER, HOWARD M. LEVET, HENRY J. M. Poemes, 1943.

By Howard M. Brier & Random House, Inc., employer for hire of illustrator, Jay Hyde Barnum.

They said that Mr. Brier and his family were still on behind, and alone.

Soon a man came in, better dressed than ourselves, and much to our surprise it was one of the old Death Valley travelers, the Rev. J.W. Brier whom I last saw in his lone camp in the desert, discoursing to his young sons on the benefits of an early education.

I inquired of Brier how he came to get hold of this nice property, and he said that during the war the soldiers had taken possession of this piece of ground, and had their camp here, so he considered it was government land, and therefore had squatted on it and was going to hold it, and pay for it as regular government land, and that he already considered it his own, for said he, "I am an American, and this is a part of the public domain."

I thought this would be a pretty good chance for me to go, as I would have company, and so went to Brier and Granger and told them what I would like to do, and that with their permission I would quit and go on with them.

Among them was a well dressed Californian who evidently did not greatly fancy American cooking, but got along very well till Mrs. Brier brought around the dessert, a sort of duff.

She simply failed to mention that in the fairy-land there are cherry-blossom lanes down which no human can wander without being torn by the brier patches.

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