How To Use Brier In A Sentence
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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
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The setter's long-haired coat easily wards off the north country's brisk autumn climate and punishing brier tangles.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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On the walk there our legs got a good lashing from the catbrier and blackberry stickers.
Four Blind Mice
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Greenbrier vines and a vine known as supplejack climb over some of the vegetation.
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The familiar brierwood pipe was set between his teeth.
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When I entered his office he was smoking a brierwood pipe.
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Solanum sanctum (Heb. hedek), rendered "brier" (q.v.) in Micah
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The word "brier" or "briar" has no connexion whatever with the prickly, thorny briar which bears the lovely wild rose.
The Social History of Smoking
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It led straight to the bullbrier thicket where the old beech partridge roosted.
Secret of the Woods
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As I looked, I saw the singular apparition of a moving "whimsey" at the top of Brierley Hill, dark and black against the shining surface.
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
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You'll just have to practise like billy-ho!" said Betty Brierley, who was addicted to slang.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
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The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers (both very prickly), muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers.
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Whether it's a sedge-rimmed Alberta pond or a Georgia slough choked with catbrier, pocket water that has been created by beaver, nature's most impressive engineers, provides intimate, up-close-and-personal duck hunting.
Tips, Tactics, and Gear for Beaver Pond Ducks
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Common midstory and understory species included red maple, American beech, greenbrier, and spicebush.
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For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a velvet gowne, and at a bridal in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goes in a pounced dublet and a paire of embroidered hosen, the the Cities to weare a fries Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the
The Arte of English Poesie
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Brier bases his scenario on several pieces of evidence.
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But the incidents here told conflict with the undeniable facts of Cardinal Sadolet's intercession for, and peaceable relations with the inhabitants of Cabrières in 1541 and 1542; as well as with the royal letters of March 17, 1549 (1550 New Style), and the report of Du Bellay.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Bvt when these maner of solitary speaches and recitals of rebuke, vttered by the rurall gods out of bushes and briers, seemed not to the finer heads sufficiently perswasiue, nor so popular as if it were reduced into action of many persons, or by many voyces liuely represented to the eare and eye, so as a man might thinke it were euen now a doing.
The Arte of English Poesie
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He crashed the net on Briere's toss in transition from the left point.
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But the incidents here told conflict with the undeniable facts of Cardinal Sadolet's intercession for, and peaceable relations with the inhabitants of Cabrières in 1541 and 1542; as well as with the royal letters of March 17, 1549 (1550 New Style), and the report of Du Bellay.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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One who walks in the woods at sunset sometimes hears it from a tangle of grapevine and bullbrier.
Ways of Wood Folk
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I remembered watching the ritual of tamping the weed into the bowl of a brierwood pipe.
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Below this was a swamp surrounded by a luxuriant growth of asters of every hue, and white and pink spirea and golden rod, and blue iris, and the delicate, rose-colored arethusa, and the blue fringed gentian abounded on every hand; also shrubs of the bayberry, wild rose and sweet brier, with many beautiful ferns.
Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
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Years later I crossed the old pasture and went straight to the bullbrier tangle.
Secret of the Woods
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Because the canopy is relatively open here, the vegetation is often overgrown with rattan vine, greenbrier, wild grape, pepper vine, trumpet creeper, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy.
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It were a pesky wind that kep 'a-cuffin' me an 'whistlin' in the briers on my face an 'crackin' my coat-tails.
In the Days of Poor Richard
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Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch Turn, and return, indenting with the way; Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch, Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay: For misery is trodden on by many, And being low never relieved by any.
On Hunting
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Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.
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Peter Brierley, probably Britain's foremost collator of religious statistics, has conducted a number of nation-wide censuses and surveys of church attendance in England, Wales and Scotland.
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It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side.
Wessex Tales
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Brierley's book has the merit of being both informative and readable.
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The arrow was covered with blood but the deer ran into a cedar and brier thicket.
How many people here have shot a deer and never found it, what did u shoot it with gun or bow.
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I will cetainly be glad to "collect" an animal anytime the opportunity is available, because there have been many miles of briers, ticks, mosquitos, sand gnats, snakes, sweat and effort expended in between.
Collecting Versus Earning Your Game
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For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a veluet gowne, and at a bridall in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goe in a pounced dublet and a paire of embrodered hosen, in the Citie to weare a frise Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the Sessions, and other ordinarie meetings and Commissions in the Countrey, so bedect with buttons and aglets of gold and such costly embroderies, as the poore plaine men of the Countrey called him (for his gaynesse) the golden knight.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Orange-blossom was another favourite, often wired on to garlands of greenbrier (Smilax sp.) and pinned to the wedding dress in tiers.
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For them to put together such a great run then lose guys like Afinogenov, Drury, Briere, Spacek, Connolly, Kotalik, and Paul Gaustad and bring up players from Rochester that have never played in an NHL game and not lose a beat is amazing.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6485
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A legend circulated throughout the land about the beautiful sleeping Little Brier-Rose, for so the princess was called.
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Bred an born in a brier-patch, Brer Fox, bred en bawn!
Final Numbers: Obama Wins Huge Victory
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The man and woman were employed in bruising what was called brier root, which they had dug from the forest, for food.
David Crockett
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U cannot replace briere and drury with role players and as long as that's his philosophy this team will b mediocre for a long time.
Yahoo! Sports - Top News
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Brush" isn't one thing at all, but hundreds of species of native plants - wild cranberry, prickly ash, nannyberry, red-twig dogwood, hornbeam, greenbrier, witch hazel.
CounterPunch
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Times are getting lively in these parts," remarked Weber, as he filled his brierwood and lit it; "this thing can't go on forever; the rustlers or cowmen have got to come out on top, and I'm shot if one can tell just now which it will be.
Cowmen and Rustlers A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges
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And then the prince's marriage to Little Brier-Rose was celebrated with great splendor, and they lived happily until they died.
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On the little porch sat a big man with grizzled whiskers, smoking a brier-wood pipe, his beamlike legs crossed and his arms folded as he moodily watched the launch.
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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La Briere on horseback, preceded by an outrider in full dress, and followed by six servants, — among whom were the Negroes and the mulatto, — and the britzka of the colonel for the two waiting-women and the luggage.
Modeste Mignon
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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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Meanwhile the old institute is set for a new life, as two companies from Brierfield and Burnley have expressed an interest in buying the building and re-erecting it.
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The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers (both very prickly), muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers.
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Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.
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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
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Then he indulges in a fit of merriment at his own jokes -- 'chatter-chatter-chat-chat-chat-chat-chat' he says, calling his own name as he slips away to the security of a catbrier or barberry bush.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners
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The removal of understory vegetation, such as greenbrier, would aid in the movement and predator vigilance of the Delmarva fox squirrel.
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When the city of our solemnities is thus made a quiet habitation at any time, and we are fed from day to day with the bread of life, no man forbidding us, we must give thanks to God for it and prepare for changes, still longing for that holy mountain in which there shall never be any pricking brier nor grieving thorn.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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He had never been addicted to drink, and his only indulgence was his brierwood pipe, which was his almost inseparable companion.
Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them
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BRIERY: I usually think of California Zinfandel rather than Bordeaux when the term briery comes into play.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
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The magnitude of all species activity at the still water site on Brier Island was one-third the average magnitude of activity at still water sites at Kejimkujik National Park.
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Among their green robes may be seen thousands of beautiful wild-flowers, -- the sweet-scented laurustinus, all sorts of running vetches and wild sweet-pea, the delicate vases of dewy morning-glories, clusters of eglantine or sweetbrier roses, fragrant acacia-blossoms covered with bees and buzzing flies, the gold of glowing gorses, and scores of purple and yellow flowers, of which I know not the names.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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The picture postcard view of The Greenbrier resort's white hotel facade offset with tulips in spring splendor is gone, replaced by cranes, dust and construction workers in a dash to finish an underground casino beneath what used to be the front lawn.
Greenbrier Resort casino to open in June
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Just in case the link doesn't work, try googling Michael Briere or Holly Jones to get the story.
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The two cardinals that sat in the catbrier between visits to the feeders were waiting for me to leave.
Vineyard Chill
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General manager Paul Holmgren says Briere will have a procedure called photorefractive keratectomy.
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And the brier-bush is sweet whar the burnie is rowin ',
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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In the comments Noah Brier references an article he wrote on this in the fall.
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Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.
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England know this day, that we lie unthankfully under as full a dispensation of mercy and grace as ever nation in the world enjoyed, and that without a lively acknowledgment thereof, with our own unworthiness of it, we shall one day know what it is (being taught with briers and thorns) to undervalue the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Felix nodded in dismissal, rested his elbows on the table, and again puffed away at his brierwood.
Felix O'Day
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Unearned correlational art guts methodist brierwood, cheerless inexterminable maiolica, irreparable agama, nasal freeware.
Rational Review
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The talented young backs Elliot Kear and Rhys Williams each scored a hat-trick and the veteran Warrington stand-off Lee Briers kicked eight goals in his first international for almost three years.
Gareth Thomas scores a try as Wales beat Scotland in European Cup
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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
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So I'll join them here as a new, different word, and say that a double-tongued word wrester is one who finds a home in more than one language and who draws forth words from the zeitgeist like plucking drowning sailors from the sea, or like pulling thorns from the paw of a lion, or like picking blackberries from the brierpatch.
Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
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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
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Yeah, Steve, it sure sounds like ‘Please, please, Brer Fox, don’t throw me in the brier patch.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Looks Like Now We Need a Commercial Financial Protection Agency:
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Based on the fact that young M. lucifugus are volant at three weeks of age, parturition on Brier Island must have occurred by 25 June.
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Hazletine produced a brierwood pipe and pressed some tobacco in the bowl.
Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3)
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It looked as though that goal would be enough to give the Bruins the lead heading into the second period, but Briere scored on a slapper from the circle that went through Rask's legs to tie it.
Flyers use overtime to survive, knock off Bruins in Game 4
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We thanked her, entered, and went walking along a smooth road, through open sward, clumps of trees and an occasional piece of artful neglect in the shape of rough hillocks covered with wild shrubs, such as brier and broom.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
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Along the Greenbrier and New rivers adventurous boatmen ply in "batteaux," carrying merchandise or travelers who wish to explore the wonders of the New River cañon.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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Philadelphia had one of the best chances in the closing seconds when Briere's power-play slapper from the blueline almost trickled past Brodeur.
USATODAY.com
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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
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In autumn and early winter, cedar and honeysuckle berries, the grape-like cluster of fruit of the poison ivy, bittersweet and catbrier berries are all consumed according to their needs.
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
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John drove over to meet the Honourable Cornelius, who was in a terrible state of anxiety and left him no peace on the way asking him again and again to repeat the answers to the questions which had been proposed, reckoning up the ones he had answered wrong and the ones he thought he might have answered right, and coming each time to a different conclusion, finally lighting a huge brierwood pipe and swearing "that it was a beastly shame to subject human beings to such awful torture.
A Tale of a Lonely Parish
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Common midstory and understory species included red maple, American beech, greenbrier, and spicebush.
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Fertilizers, which you can buy at most hardware stores, help release nutrients in plants -- such as witch hazel, honeysuckle, and catbrier, all foods that whitetails already prefer -- and make them even more attractive.
Bring More Deer to Your Tree Stand With a Poor-Man's Food Plot
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The upper half is Sherlock Holmes with his hat, cloak, and pipe - though whether brierroot or clay can't be determined.
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During the Civil War, soldiers carved pipes from brierroot, and chessmen from pine.
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The Pliocene is the best analog we have in the past for what could happen in our future," said Christopher Brierley, a Yale postdoctoral associate and an author of the study.
Zee News : India National
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Picking up his brierwood, lying on a pile of books on his desk, and within reach of his hand, he started to fill the bowl, when a scrap of paper covered with
Tides of Barnegat
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The fox had struck the trail late the previous afternoon, and followed it to a bullbrier thicket, in the midst of which was a great cedar in which the old beech partridge roosted.
Secret of the Woods
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I drew out my brierwood pipe and consoled myself with a smoke; for among my other military accomplishments I had acquired the habit of smoking.
The end of an era,
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The moon had already risen when Bradley, with his brierwood pipe, preceded Richardson upon the veranda.
A Phyllis of the Sierras
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Eight minutes from time Simon Collins just failed to connect with an excellent Serrant free-kick and a minute later it was all square as Brierley lobbed Matt Boswell from the corner of the area.
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Ans. If that necessity were not voluntarily chosen which enforceth men to wrest and pervert the word of God, not only to mistaken, but strange, uncouth, and inconsistent senses, their so doing might perhaps seem not to be altogether without colourer and pretext; but when they willingly embrace those paths which will undoubtedly lead them into the briers, and, contrary to abundance of light and evidence of truth, embrace those persuasions which necessitate them to such courses, I know not what cloak they have left for their deviations.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Heb. hedek (Prov. 15: 19), rendered "brier" in Micah 7: 4.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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And is Lady S. pulling some kind of brier-patch scenario here?
Week 36: In All Their Grandeur and Monstrosity
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West Virginians can take advantage of their native habitat with elderberries and blueberries, coralberries or greenbrier.
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Across the meadow, to dine on the remembrance of field mice -- alas! safe now under the crust; along the brook, where he once caught frogs; through the thicket, where the grouse were hatched; past the bullbrier tangle, where the covey of quail once rested nightly; into the farmyard, where the dog is loose and the chickens are safe under lock and key, instead of roosting in trees; across the highway, and through the swamp, and into the big bare empty woods; till in the sad gray morning light he digs under the wild apple tree and sits down on the snow to eat a frozen apple, lest his stomach cry too loudly while he sleeps the day away and tries to forget that he is hungry.
Secret of the Woods
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They took the score to 135 before Brierley was bowled by Taylor only two short of what would have been his first half-century of the season.
