In a wilderness of wilted maize fields, and mud or wattle-built villages, one's eyes rested with affection upon slender trees laden with rosy pomegranatesthe pomegranate on the branch is a lovely rusty-brown fruit, and the tree is like a briar with large berries.

Young Anerley stood with his back against a palm tree and his briar between his lips, thinking over the advice which he had received.

Well, I may say, I have run through the briars for a wench;

Presently he removed the briar from his lips, and said abruptly: "Jasperson, you assert that you showed down in church.

The artist poet who coloured the virginal form of Poverty, with the briars beneath her feet and the roses blooming round her forehead, proved by his well-known canzone that he was free from monastic Quixotism, and took a practical view of the value of worldly wealth.

" He has taken the thorns and briars of scholastic divinity, and garlanded them with the flowers of modern literature.

He asked me for my knife, and I gave him my sharp-pointed bowie, with which he dug the prickly pear briars out of his foot.

After Mrs. Jones had put the lad to bed, and was in the pantry arranging for breakfast, the father knocked the ashes from his briar into the stove, and, humming an old tune, went to the boy's bedroom door.