brier

How To Use brier In A Sentence

• Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits. Taxonomies
• The setter's long-haired coat easily wards off the north country's brisk autumn climate and punishing brier tangles.
• The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams. Local Color
• This was his middle range, a place of dense coverts, bullbrier thickets and sunny open spots among the ledges, where you might, with good-luck, find him on special days at any season. Secret of the Woods
• It is in a walled garden next to Sion Hill Hall, an elegant manor house built in 1912 by the York architect Walter H Brierley.
• Turning, she saw her husband puffing away at his brierwood pipe. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life
• Let us cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be reested for bacon. '' The Black Dwarf
• On the walk there our legs got a good lashing from the catbrier and blackberry stickers. Four Blind Mice
• Greenbrier vines and a vine known as supplejack climb over some of the vegetation.
• The familiar brierwood pipe was set between his teeth.