Though she was herself among the blessed, yet the thorns and briers of the earth caught at her garments and pierced her tender feet.

if God sends the poor weakling to purgatory for leaving the right path, where ought some of you to go who strew it with thorns and briers!

" Some one was at hand, she sprang through the vines, the briers catching the old blue muslin, extricating herself in time to run almost against the navy-blue figure that she had not yet become familiar with.

He wishes fewer laws, so they were better observed; and for those are mulctuary, he understands their institution not to be like briers or springs, to catch everything they lay hold of, but, like sea-marks on our dangerous Goodwin, to avoid the shipwreck of innocent passengers.

Among the Briers and Wild RosesWhy the Roses have ThornsWhy the Wild Rabbits are White in Winter.

So, while the path of life I tread, A path to me with briers spread; Let me its tangled mazes spy Like you, with gay, good-humour'd eye; Nor at those thorny tracts repine, The treasure of your friendship, mine.

And if you persist in remaining here, what moral right have you to complain of God?... "Remember, then, in conclusion, that, for millions of years before our race existed, mosquitoes, weeds, briers, thorns, thistles, snow-storms, and northeast winds prevailed upon this planet, and that during all this time it was pronounced by the Deity himself to be 'very good.'

Cancut must steer her alone over the foam, while we, springing ashore, raced through the thick of the forest, tore through the briers, and plunged through the punk of trees older than history, now rotting where they fell, slain by Time the Giganticide.

On, deeper and deeper into the wood,now dodging under the green and snaky cat-briers, with their retractile thorns and vicious clinging grasp,now dashing along the woodman's paths,now struggling among the opposing underwood.

It grows and flourishes, and if it be not rooted out now, it may choke the truth as weeds and briers choke the wheat.

They had devoured all the fruit in the orchards about, and had even destroyed many of the trees by eating the bark, and now they were stripping the briers of foliage.

He left us among some sallie-trees, in a secluded nook, walled in by briers, and went across the paddock to roundup the cows.

She pretended to be fixing it and slipped out the back door down the furrows and squatted in the briers in a fence corner.

It was like the task of the pioneer settler in the wilderness, who must uproot trees, drain swamps, burn briers and brambles, exterminate hurtful beasts, and prepare the soil for the reception of the seeds that are to produce the future harvest.

Another time he will give such a soft strange series of notes that a bird-lover will immediately begin to search through a tangle of briers, after what he imagines to be a strange bird.

"To see the Towhee as he hops away from the briers that hide his nest, you would never dream that he is a cousin to the meek brown Sparrows.

Quick, as when kindling trails of active fire Up to their native firmament ascend: There shrouded in the briers unseen I stood, And thro' the leaves survey'd the neighb'ring flood.

On feast days the old ditches should be mended, the public roads worked, briers cut down, the garden dug, the meadow cleaned, the hedges trimmed and the clippings collected and burned, the fish pond cleaned out.

So also several of these instruments are of many varieties, as for instance the falx, of which this author says that there must be provided forty of the kind suitable for use in a vineyard, five for cutting rushes, three for pruning trees and ten for cutting briers.

My road was good, level, sandya lane between two rail fences almost hidden with vines and briers.

Before I had been walking ten minutes, I knew that I was completely lost; I went through thickets and briers, over logs and gullies, round and round, I suspect, for hour in and hour out, until just before day I saw the reflection of fire through the woods, and at the same time almost fell into a small pool.

We ran down the hill into the valley below; there we found a shallow creek with steep banks covered with briers.

We beat down the briers with our guns, and scrambled through to the other side of the creek in time to see the Yankees run scattering through the woods and away.

George, my rents are cut in half, and half my farms left to the briers and wolves in one day, because his Majesty, General Schuyler, orders his Highness, Colonel Dayton, to call out half the militia to make a fort for his Eminence, Colonel Gansevoort!"

I stopped before going into church to look at the new grave that has taken its place among the defaced stones, all overgrown with briers, that lie round it.