How To Use Bramble In A Sentence
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I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
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Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
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They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Times, Sunday Times
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He dips his chin, and just as an expectant gasp ripples through the crowd, Eddie launches himself over the wall into a bramble of wild roses.
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Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.
Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
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It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
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A low-slung chassis, no more than 15 inches at the shoulder, enables the basset to tunnel through bramble and brush like a four-legged rototiller.
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It warms from the inside with brambles, cherry and plums.
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Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world.
Personality in Literature
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But, remember, you will have passed the Rubicon, when once you have been shaven: if you repent, and let your beard grow, your mouth will by-and-by show no longer what Messer Angelo calls the divine prerogative of lips, but will appear like a dark cavern fringed with horrent brambles.
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The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
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The highest rated are also the most colourful - dried fruits, brambles, strawberries, spinach, beetroot and sweet potatoes.
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The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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The wine is very juicy with ripe berry fruit, brambles, a sprinkling of spice and round tannins.
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Here in my present picnic is the suggestive parallel, for even though no such actual episodes as those I have described had been witnessed by me, an examination of the premises beneath my bramble were a sufficient commentary.
My Studio Neighbors
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The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea.
Try Anything Twice
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The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
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But they are also thorny like a bramble, not bristly like a wineberry.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stopped to pick brambles by the side of the road.
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HOW can I get rid of brambles and nettles?
The Sun
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Once, out picking blackberries, he over-reached and fell headlong into the prickly bramble.
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Locomotives once used by showmen to haul and power fairground rides; road rollers like Blackberry Jack, which was submerged in brambles before its acquisition for restoration; and more manoeuvrable tractors, including Bo Peep and Hot Favourite, encircled by a procession of their miniature counterparts.
Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
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They warm my heart somethin 'braave; an' they let the gray mosses cling to 'em an 'the dinky blue butterflies open an' shut their wings 'pon 'em, an' the bramble climb around theer arms.
Lying Prophets
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Dog roses, bramble, nettles and thistles provide good for birds such as goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinches and the occasional rarity such as brambling or bullfinch.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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If access was the aim, its target would not be tangled in these political brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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Some fruit, such as strawberries, brambles and cherries, have low pectin levels and so extra must be added to ensure a good set.
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To the right is a wilderness, abandoned to brambles, ground elder, bindweed and buddleia.
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Other small fruits include plantings of brambles (three varieties of blackberries, four of raspberries, plus wineberries or ‘Japanese raspberries’), grapes (three varieties), blueberries (nine, each a different variety), and strawberries.
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These brambles bear fruit on branches growing from canes.
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He rearranged the brambles, got back on his bike, and pedalled round to the mill yard.
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Of the three ways leading to perfection the first is called the purgative, and consists in the purifying of the soul; from which, as from a piece of waste ground, we must take away the brambles and thorns of sin before planting there trees which shall bear good fruit.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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Serve with bold winter food and watch its charming, dusky, bramble and blackcurrant fruit take centre stage.
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Times, Sunday Times
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
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So much he told the seekers in few words; and then while they grovelled on the earth and wept for pure joy, whereas the sun was down and it was beginning to grow dusk, he went and looked around soberly to see if he might find water and any kind of victual; and presently a little down the hillside he came upon a place where a spring came gushing up out of the earth and ran down toward the plain; and about it was green grass growing plentifully, and a little thicket of bramble and wilding fruit-trees.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
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Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.
Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
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The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wanted to grow brambles and ivy around it so it looked like a ruined castle '.
Times, Sunday Times
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There can be brambles and poison ivy, the occasional spiderweb and weather elements to consider.
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The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a month the indigo bunting will sing and build its nest in the brambles.
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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The RSPCA officer cut the soggy moggy free from a bramble bush after she was found by workmen in the area.
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Seen along the way today was a heron, more brambles, some wild blackberries, hawthorn showing fruit ranging from cherry red through to deep blood red, rose hips and some lovely yellow toadflax.
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Back at the bog's edge, pushing aside blackberry brambles and birch branches, Taylor stops frequently to explain the side of the bog few have seen.
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He came to the great hedge and he thrust his way through it, and though the thorns of the brambles scored him deeply and tore threads from his wonderful suit, and though burs and goosegrass and havers caught and clung to him, he did not care.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories
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Visitors seized the forks and spades that had been temptingly placed by a nasty patch of brambles and nettles and began to clear a new bed that will be used for pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes in a few weeks.
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Quentin felt the magic of his sword subside, a red haze fading into twinges of emptiness and unfulfilled need, a mix of emotions that tore at him like brambles.
Antrax
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As though I did not exist; as though it were an automaton who cleared brambles and counted magpies.
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Although bramble fruits comprise a small portion of the Ohio fruit basket, many producers are doing an excellent job of raising and managing their brambles.
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And there she went, leaving only a bit of her skirts behind on the rose brambles.
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His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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At one point he took a wrong turn and found himself caught in a moonless trough, trapped in brambles and deep bracken.
GRACE
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plant blackcaps as far away as possible from red raspberries or other cultivated brambles, and remove existing wild berries if practical, or your new plants may soon pick up diseases.
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It's a well-balanced wine with oodles of ripe raspberry, bramble fruit, spices and vibrant tannins.
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The garden was 'a row of leylandii and no plants at all — just brambles'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frontiers have come in all shapes and historical moments, and childhood has always been shaped by a bramble of racial and ethnic diversity.
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The aromas consist of bramble fruit, such as blackberries and raspberries.
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I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
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Complex too, the wine is rich with plums, brambles, raspberry, nice touches of vanilla oak and mouth-filling tannins.
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Shrouded in bracken and blackberry brambles is a bush dangling dozens of berries like Christmas tree ornaments.
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I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
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One theory was that the pair had tumbled from a ledge down a cliff face partially covered with trees and brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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As amongst all the trees and plants of the earth the bramble is the most troublesome, so it is also the most contemptible.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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But this was fuchsia, big as you please, escaped from Irish gardens to the roadsides to intertwine with native brambles in tangled hedgerows.
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It has flavours of cranberry, cherry, raspberry, brambles, plum tomatoes and black pepper.
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We cleared through this banking last winter, taking out or coppicing overgrown shrubs and controlling the undergrowth of brambles and ferns.
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Near Bungay we turn off into the winding lanes of an estate, pass the hall and slip into the old wood, pulling in the truck down a brambled, grassy concrete road the Americans constructed during the war.
Wildwood
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He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub.
Archive 2009-07-12
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The stranger arrived at Bramblehurst railway station on acold , snowy day in February.
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But for those who have sampled its mature charms, who have patiently cellared its wines for more than 10 years or so, watching its tannins and texture soften as it transforms itself into a gentle red wine with notes of spice and velvety bramble, its allure is difficult to evade.
The Mature Charm of Cornas
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I'd chosen the apple-and-bramble crumble, which the menu said came with a fresh cinnamon crème anglaise.
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She is safe in the hollow stump, you say, with the opening judgmatically hid by the brambles.
Pathfinder; or, the inland sea
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I discovered the delights of blackberry liqueur creme de mure and am looking forward to drinking a Bramble or two as the weather turns warm.
Cocktails That Complete Me: Tailspin Cocktail
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When he had heard Shibli Bagarag to a close, the countenance of Shagpat waxed fiery, as it had been flame kindled by travellers at night in a thorny bramble-bush, and he ruffled, and heaved, and was as when dense jungle-growths are stirred violently by the near approach of a wild animal in his fury, shouting in short breaths, 'A barber!
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1
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My crops of grass and brambles threaten her more carefully tended beans, lettuces, garlic and artichokes, and the Martock Bean Enclosure must look like a sick joke to her.
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During the past three years of his fur-tuitous career, Cooper has churned out a veritable cat-alogue raisonné of photos taken on weekly jaunts around the neighborhood, during which he pussyfoots through brambles, along fence-tops, and under cars armed with a camera collar that snaps shots every two minutes.
ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon
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A few words, and the Creole nature could influence the lives of the two beings about to walk together through the brambled paths and the dusty high-roads of Parisian society, for Natalie believed in her mother blindly.
A Marriage Contract
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The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset — a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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The bird spends the day searching for food in such places -- hence its name nettle-creeper -- creeping along the hedges, under brambles and thorns, and builds its nest in the locality to which it is accustomed.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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If one could make a gas-phase condensate, one would have a less brambled system against which to test one's own physical intuition.
Eric A. Cornell - Autobiography
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For strawberries, brambles, blueberries, and grapes, 200 gallons per acre is the standard dilute volume.
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We picked potatoes, carrots, peas and swedes for the farmers, wild brambles and mushrooms for the pantry and rose hips for vitamin C syrup.
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‘We discovered all these terraces completely overgrown, under a jungle of vines and brambles,’ said Threipland.
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You have torn your limbs with spines of gorse-flower, bramble and cytisus.
Arrow Music BY [Bryher].
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Winged forms of the aphid can transmit the virus to healthy raspberries from nearby infected brambles.
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Like other brambles in its genus, wineberry forms a clump of arching canes that may reach nine feet in length.
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It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I expect that when I come back from my hols half the plants will be dead but the brambles will be looking as healthy as ever.
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It looked so sad, compared with what it used to be, so desolate and brambled up and ruinous, that I scarcely should have known it, except for the gray pedestal of the prostrate dial we used to moralise about.
Springhaven
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The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset -- a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles.
The Pickwick Papers
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One of the most common and widespread diseases of brambles in the United States, anthracnose can infect both red and black raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, and loganberries.
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Brambles, gorse and broom rapidly overtake untended ground and soon create an impenetrable terrain - ideal habitat for furtive species such as the wild boar and Iberian wolf which survive here.
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Rare plant life which has perished includes cloudberry, a sub-arctic bramble, which thrives on moorland peat bogs.
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The Cabernet Sauvignon punches above its weight with brambles, dark chocolate, vanilla and peppery spices.
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Add the lemon juice and pour through a sieve into six tall, elegant glasses with five or six tayberries, raspberries, brambles or strawberries in each.
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If access was the aim, its target would not be tangled in these political brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Place a plastic sieve over the bowl and push the eggs and bramble purée through the sieve, so that any blobby bits of the white and all the bramble pips remain in the sieve.
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For men do not gather figs from thorns; nor from a bramble bush do they gather the grape.
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Here I saw a pretty thing: a cock cirl-bunting, his yellow breast towards me, sitting quietly on a large bush of these same brilliant berries, set amidst a mass of splendidly coloured hazel leaves, mixed with bramble and tangled with ivy and silver-grey traveller's-joy.
Afoot in England
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Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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The bramble is a worthless plant, not to be numbered among the trees, useless and fruitless, nay, hurtful and vexatious, scratching and tearing, and doing mischief; it began with the curse, and its end is to be burned.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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They were coming the long way round past the brambled wall and he heard Marcella's mothering talk, her crooning seriousness.
Cal
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If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them.
Mary Anerley
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HOW can I get rid of brambles and nettles?
The Sun
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I stroke the soft noses of Bramble and Bracken, the cobby, good-natured riding school ponies, as they graze in their paddock, on whose back I would vault bareback and steal a bridle-less ride, twenty seven years ago.
*Earworms and guilty pleasures and country roads
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One theory was that the pair had tumbled from a ledge down a cliff face partially covered with trees and brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The going wasn't easy, as they fought their way out of a thick bramble forest the first day, and, during the second day, found themselves entering a wide, expansive plain.
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But in the summer and early fall, it was women who foraged in the woods for windfall branches, returning home with brin bags full of brambles and loads of bresneys and blasty boughs on their backs so large that "you just could see their feet coming along the road.
Gutenber-e Help Page
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The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset — a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Eight basic factors must be considered in selecting a site for a bramble planting.
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It connected us with a fruity hedge with brambles, rosehips, sloes, and a hundred yards of elders weighed down with berries.
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Understory vegetation is dominated by hobblebush, striped maple, mountain maple, brambles (Rubus spp.), and seedlings and saplings of the dominant tree species.
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Gone were the blossoms of blackthorns, brambles, sweet roses, violets, and pungent garlics.
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It was tipping it down and we had to clear all the trees and brambles to get access.
The Sun
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It was tipping it down and we had to clear all the trees and brambles to get access.
The Sun
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Johanna's knitting and general craftiness is a good fit for Bramble Berry and we are thrilled to have her indie cool sensibilities in our midst.
Archive 2007-10-01
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And men, content with food which came with no one’s seeking, gathered the arbute fruit, strawberries from the mountainsides, cornel-cherries, berries hanging thick upon the prickly bramble, and acorns falling from the spreading tree of Jove.
"The real problem with literary types is..."
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The brambles - raspberries and blackberries - are perennial plants with a biennial growth and fruiting habit.
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Brambles and bindweed (which he called bindbell) mainly.
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We turn under the brambles and sorrel, break up the fertile earth, and plant the magic seeds.
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The going was tough with tangled lianas and stubborn brambles clutching at my clothes.
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A question for Anne-Marie: The Bramble Berry website says that the shamrock mica is a bleeding color -- will this be an issue with the layered soap?
Amy's First Soap
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The crisp guard hairs of the Labrador's coat easily shed burrs and brambles, and the dense undercoat makes the dog practically impervious to water.
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The old tree soon sprang back into life and contains in its crown a thriving miniature wood of elder, bramble, ivy, ash, nettles and goosegrass, as well as a whole city of woodlice, earwigs and beetles.
Wildwood
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It was far too early for picking fruit from brambles and apple trees, but he did pause to dig up some wild leeks along the narrow path he followed.
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Included in the brambles are raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, loganberries, bayberries, and the wineberry.
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The ground was fairly free of undergrowth, the anemones sprinkled, there was a bush or two, elder, or guelder-rose, and a purplish tangle of bramble: the old russet of bracken almost vanished under green anemone ruffs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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The Wilderness was second-growth country, gullied and full of scrubby chinkapin and blackjack oaks, scraggy pines, hazel, and every kind of thorn - and bramble-bearing bush known to man.
The Guns Of The South
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The second, and likely main, reason that I never had a Bramble is because it calls for a very obscure ingredient called creme de mure.
Cocktails That Complete Me: The Bramble
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Having said that, be assured that late summer is ideal for tackling the growth of difficult weeds such as ground elder, brambles, bindweed and Japanes knotweed.
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The Small Tortoiseshell is feeding in Farrell's "Bramblearium", a riot of wild flowers and nectar-rich brambles sitting in a small corner of the grounds around Farrell's house, a former mushroom farm.
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The grape vine is climbing up the berry tree and the blackberry is having a pissing contest with something hideous from the neighbour's side of the fence about who has the biggest brambles.
Wonderful new invention
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Plant blackcaps as far away as possible from red raspberries or other cultivated brambles, and remove existing wild berries if practical, or your new plants may soon pick up diseases.
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The bush upon which it grows is a salsolaceous bramble [Note 72: Nitraria Australis], and is found in large quantities on the saline flats, bordering some parts of the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers; and along the low parts of the southern coast, immediately behind the ridges bounding the sea shore.
An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
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I noticed a chimney rising just above the treetops of a spinney of ash, maple, hazel, elder, blackthorn, ivy and bramble, and what was left of a cottage orchard of walnut, greengage and apple.
Wildwood
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Furniture spilled into brambles and rank grass from gaping mouths of rooms.
Somewhere East of Life
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If access was the aim, its target would not be tangled in these political brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a short-lived fashion for Worcesterberries about ten years ago when they were unconvincingly touted as a rival for brambles or tayberries.
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He slipped and tripped through a sudden abundance of teazel and bramble, but kept his garments pristine all the while, never snagging.
BEHINDLINGS
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Where there weren't any trees, there were overgrown weeds and brambles and dandelions.
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It was tipping it down and we had to clear all the trees and brambles to get access.
The Sun
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For their crane had been left in a brambled hole, and they very soon rigged it out again.
Mary Anerley
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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East of the house was a long lawn, secluded from the open Park by a beautiful, wildly growing hedge of gorse, berberis, bramble, hawthorn, and wild roses.
Lady John Russell
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One theory was that the pair had tumbled from a ledge down a cliff face partially covered with trees and brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Times, Sunday Times
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Included in the brambles are raspberries, blackberries, dewberries, loganberries, bayberries, and the wineberry.
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It was a treat, as well, to see the rare white letter hairstreak butterfly, that spends most of its time in the tops of elm trees, come down to take nectar from some bramble blossom, close enough to see the initial ‘W’ on its underwing.
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In season, raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and brambles run riot across Scotland.
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Having made sure that the bed on which it rested was firm and moderately dry, he covered the box with a strewing of last year's leaves, cunningly trailed a bramble or two over it, and pursued his way more lightsomely, albeit still under some oppression: for the house stood formidably high, and he feared all converse with women.
Hocken and Hunken
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Later that day, I went for a walk and came upon a bed of brambles with unfamiliar leaves and bearing soft pink fruit.
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During the past three years of his fur-tuitous career, Cooper has churned out a veritable cat-alogue raisonné of photos taken on weekly jaunts around the neighborhood, during which he pussyfoots through brambles, along fence-tops, and under cars armed with a camera collar that snaps shots every two minutes.
ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon
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In Georgian Bath, the novelist's alter ego, Matthew Bramble, suspects that the mineral water pump is connected to the baths: "What a delicate beveridge is every day quaffed by the drinkers; medicated with the sweat and dirt, and dandriff; and the abominable discharges of various kinds, from twenty different diseased bodies, parboiling in the kettle below".
Ten of the best spas
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Night-hawks churred as they beat on noiseless wings above the beds of bramble and bracken.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
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She screamed, wrenching a sizable twig out of her hair and hurling it at him, after disentangling herself from what must have been the twentieth or so bramble thicket.
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The soakaway under the cemetery tap has been cleaned out by the odd-job man, who has almost completed clearing the church walls of ivy and brambles.
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In case it is not, then the "bramble" will have to be regarded as the type of hedge that perhaps enclosed the threshing floor.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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THE NEXT DAY, I'm scrambling over chest-high brambles of redroot and busted pieces of cattle trough when a rooster pops up 5 feet ahead, catches a 35-mph wind, and streaks away, cackling like a Halloween witch.
The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting
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He pushed his way through the thick undergrowth that had long since made the ruins their own, brambles tearing at his shirt and trousers as he passed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I caught the hem of my dress in the brambles
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She tripped on a tangle of brambles and fell forward onto a tussock of dead grass.
GRACE
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Tarrant, another charming "highland" village, and the road, sloping down the entire distance, struck me as one of the best to be on I had travelled in Hampshire, running along a narrow green valley, with oak and birch and bramble and thorn in their late autumn colours growing on the slopes on either hand.
Afoot in England
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The Cabernet Sauvignon punches above its weight with brambles, dark chocolate, vanilla and peppery spices.
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Add the lemon juice and pour through a sieve into six tall, elegant glasses with five or six tayberries, raspberries, brambles or strawberries in each.
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It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
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It is also good on its own or with a compôte of fresh fruit (catch the end of the bramble or plum season by heating these fruits gently with a splash of cassis and sugar) or some marinated orange slices.
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The vegetation of this waste undulated and frothed amidst the countless cells of crumbling house walls, and broke along the foot of the city wall in a surf of bramble and holly and ivy and teazle and tall grasses.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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My body's in shambles encrusted with brambles that sharpen the air I breathe.
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘It took us two hours to cut through the brambles to get to the house,’ she says.
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Brambles send up so many new canes each year that they can become overcrowded, so you must also cut some of the new canes to the ground.
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One theory was that the pair had tumbled from a ledge down a cliff face partially covered with trees and brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I cover bramble rows with a fine mesh net, placing stakes with T-shaped crosspieces every 6 feet to keep the mesh from getting entangled with the plants.
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If access was the aim, its target would not be tangled in these political brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brambles sent spiny stems snaking over the open surfaces, and weeds found rootholds in the gaps between frost-bitten edges, before collapsing in the dieback of autumn.
Country diary: Bedfordshire
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With the junglelike rate of growth here, though, she knew that if she were to stay, she would need help; otherwise the fields and yard would soon heal over with weeds and brush and scrub until the house would disappear in a thicket as completely as the bramble-covered palace of Sleeping Beauty.
Cold Mountain
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The ground fell away before us to a tiny stream, then rose to brambled banks.
Poppies and Ghosts « A Fly in Amber
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Too late to worry about that now, thought Dale, and swung the Toyota off the dead-end road into the snowy and brambled yard of the abandoned farmhouse.
A Winter Haunting
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Both banks were packed with huckleberry, dogberry, ground juniper, and alders, with plenty of brambles behind them.
Stillwater
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In general, it is not a good practice to plant brambles immediately after solanaceous or other Verticillium-susceptible crops, such as tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, eggplant, melons, strawberries and other related crops.
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The brambles - raspberries and blackberries - are perennial plants with a biennial growth and fruiting habit.
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For 20 minutes, we stood by a swampy pond, trying to home in on a small fluttering piratic flycatcher in the brambles.
Strange Paradise
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One plant we should see more of is Rubus biflorus, the ornamental bramble, whose prickly stems are covered in a white, waxy bloom.
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Round about her were huddled the drowsy boys; on the slopes of the steep place where she lay she could see the goats browsing on lentisk and juniper, acanthus, bramble, mountain-ash.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in.
Times, Sunday Times
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After what felt like hours, Destry found himself squeezing through the thickest of the bramble-trees and into the sunlit clearing that housed the cocoon.
The Girl (Heart That’s Healing) « A Fly in Amber
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- “queues de rat” ( 'horsetail') and “ronces” (= 'brambles') ...
Sarcler - French Word-A-Day
