How To Use Briar In A Sentence
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The Centenier finished his coffee, while Holmes selected and filled his briar pipe.
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In this kind of environment, post-feminism confronts the young feminist as something of a briar patch to be negotiated with care.
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Her life so bare that she lacked buttons, for he noted that the top of her dress was held to with a long briar from a cockspur bush.
Cold Mountain
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Briars thrown in his Way, and with Intrepidity if need requires, even imbrue his Hands in his opposers Blood, and make a Dagger with Blindfolded Eyes, force
John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767
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Then, after carefully loading his briarwood, he summoned his man
A Pirate of Parts
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The briar pipe continued to epitomise solid, dependable, common sense masculinity.
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Her briar-root fingers, which could still strip a bine more quickly than most people's, were stained black with juice and covered with scratches from the rough clinging stems.
Mrs. Miniver
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Where I hunt there are briars galore and I need a material that has a low knap so it doesn't snag.
The Best Camo for Hunting Away from Home
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The recent Women's Issue has to be one of the most unprogressive pieces of literature to have ever come out of Briarpatch's offices.
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Briars and thorns tore at my legs.
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By the time Oberon is talking about briar, we are all lying on the bed with the eggs sitting in front of us, in a nest of sorts, and we're looking at them.
Slayground: Poetry Friday: A Midsummer Night's Dream
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He was working in a thicket of briar, elder and dead wood from a fallen tree.
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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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Every man present had filled his clay or briar pipes with good Virginia tobacco.
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Respectfully retreating to the side of the room with five of the princesses, Lord Cecil bit back a sigh as he observed a significant glance between Briar and Althia.
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Indeed, it was a matter of a braxy ewe, and the poor beast lay at the hedge-side and the blood clotting at her throat, for Dan had bled her, and the briars o 'many a brake trailed behind her.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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For a hungry cub, fresh from hibernating in its winter den, the reek was a thousand times more interesting than blackberry briars or a pair of woodland strangers.
Ice Hunt
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Colorful old geezer who walks everyplace with this gnarled briarwood cane, almost as tall as he is, and a big straw hat on his head.
Duma Key
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Rose and her sister Briar are being groomed for their eventual queenship.
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The Centenier finished his coffee, while Holmes selected and filled his briar pipe.
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After sleeping late, Wade and I tarted ourselves up and walked a few minutes down Cheltenham Beach to North Head where Byron and Briar were to be married.
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Beside the chair was a table with books on it and an ashtray with a briar pipe.
SNOWJOB
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If we go on autopilot in opposing everything "the One" seems to support, we will wind up like br'er fox, throwing br'er rabbit into the briar patch.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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In England they are called briar-root pipes, briar being a corruption of the French word _bruyère_, signifying heath.
The South of France—East Half
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Standing only a few feet away from her was Briar, the same rigid expression on his features, his eyes dark with an emotion that was undecipherable.
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Katterfelto of wonders! exceeded expectation, went beyond belief, and soared above all the natural powers of description! she was nature itself! she was the most exquisite work of art! she was the very daisy, primrose, tube rose, sweet-briar, furze blossom, gilliflower, wall-flower, cauliflower and rosemary! in short she was a bouquet of
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
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Then he began to climb the mountain, first through brown woods of beech and oak, then through pine and broom, and then across red stony ledges where only a pinched growth of lentisk and briar spread in patches over the rock.
The Hermit and the Wild Woman
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From the same we find a lyric detailing the loss of a briarwood pipe stolen in a raid, which the grieving 'sojer' trusts (as we most sincerely do with him) may be found when Richmond's taken.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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On one side lay a patch of endless briars on the other a 20 ft drop to the sharp rocks and unbridled sea below.
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To come along this side of the river, they'd have to cross the Grange fields first---a lot of fields, most bordered with briar ditches.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Fending off a protesting Violet, Briar emphatically closed and locked the door before taking a seat on the sofa.
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Mixed with the blue of the smoke from his briar was the deeper azure of a spirited monologue in which Grayson was engaged.
The Mucker
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If we go on autopilot in opposing everything "the One" seems to support, we will wind up like br'er fox, throwing br'er rabbit into the briar patch.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Glen smiled at the thought of a dirty forest with trees, briars, and wild animals.
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Glen smiled at the thought of a dirty forest with trees, briars, and wild animals.
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The shootoor-khar, or camel-thorn, a briar on which that animal delights to browse, is the only vegetable substance that meets the eye, or that these deserts can produce.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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Antoine, who toiled puffingly, Jacques, who stepped daintily and seemed fearful of treading on stones and briars, and last of all François, who moved at a measured pace, with long strides, retaining his air of profound meditation.
An Enemy to the King
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The woods are a tangle of briars, fallen trees, and brush.
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Feel briar and thorn snag heel and heart and soul, but never think that hiding is the end of it.
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Briar inquired skeptically, his brows arching on his forehead even as his eyes glimmered a brilliant green of hope.
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The window and door were open, and the morning air brought with it a mingled scent of southernwood, thyme, and sweet-briar from the patch of garden by the side of the cottage.
Adam Bede
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Such an ethics thicket is exactly the kind of briar patch Republicans would love to be thrown into.
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Boling lounged back in a deep armchair, joined by Raye the briard.
Roadside Crosses
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The uplands are now covered with dense shrub growth of arrowwood viburnum, bayberry, blueberry and shadbush, interspersed with red cedar, red maple, sapling oaks, pitch pine, black cherry, common greenbriar and blackberry.
Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island
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And meanwhile the spot is drinking in the spirits, and maybe the spirits in the alcohol are releasing the spirit in the land--maybe the alcohol is a libation, maybe the alcohol is a medium, and now the spirit of the land is out and about, the spirit of the apples and crabapples and arrowwood and briars and siberian olive and staghorn sumac...and the drinkers maybe sense this now, and so they return and return.
Libation Bearers
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Secondly, although I'd been fairly diligent about writing down the individual settings for the effects, one disadvantage of analog gear is the fairly drastic change in tone even a slight misset can make: for example, the sweep setting on a Bigbriar phaser.
More death in the wards
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Why not stay here tonight and on the morrow I will have some one take you over to Briar Cottage with a wagon?
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The veteran remained thoughtful, taking some consolation from his briarwood and a steaming hot Scotch.
A Pirate of Parts
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Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients.
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Swatting at mosquitoes and deer flies, the five picked their way through the Florida scrub, trying to avoid the briars and sawgrass sharp as a sword blade.
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Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients.
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Briar, as caused by the puncture of an insect, and which is known as the canker, or "robin redbreast's cushion," is frequently worn round the neck as a protective amulet against whooping cough.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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There to this day it lies where it fell -- a mantle of moist vivid green, powdered with silver and gold, embroidered with all floral hues; all reds from the faint blush on the petals of the briar-rose to the deep crimson of the red trifolium; and all yellows, and blues, and purples.
A Traveller in Little Things
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In the construction of cells, on the other hand, I see smooth leaves predominating, notably those of the wild briar and of the common acacia, the robinia.
Bramble-Bees and Others
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Naturally he loves ‘the sweet smell of different flowers’ … he notes the sweetness of the violet, the eglantine (sweet briar) and the damask rose; but it is suggestive that in his most sustained and exquisite appreciation of the rose, what chiefly appeals to him is the fact that, unlike other flowers, roses even when faded never smell badly, but that
Flowers, Shakespeare, and the horror of bad smells
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The rosa multiflora--the rambling rose, what I call the briar rose, because it is clearly the killer rose that protected Sleeping Beauty's castle for a century--is sending its arms across the path in the undiscovered country.
Busy thoughts
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Delighting Wes and Maggie, they also brought with them a long-haired tawny puppy, a briard named Raye.
Roadside Crosses
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Every man present had filled his clay or briar pipes with good Virginia tobacco.
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We would be wuss nor fools if we did -- with them human wildcats a-- watchin 'of us," and he began to puff vigorously at his short stump of a briarroot pipe.
The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine
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He paid £15,000 for the property, Briargate at Malahide Road, Swords, and the balance was taken through the deduction of estate agent fees.
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Black briary fruit flavours and chocolate characters combined with a subtle vanillin oak complexity.
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The bush lands go to clearly clayey-sandy soil in the xerophilous bush or scrublands, passing through intermediate forms in the briars.
Paraguana xeric scrub
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Now is a good time for pruning soft fruit bushes, such as whitecurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackcurrants and briar fruits.
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Rare marbled white butterflies flit along the overgrown route of the old track, and among the nettles and the briars there may be pyramidal and spotted orchids and unusual exotic species carried there years ago by the train.
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Finaly Brad says (calm and cool) "She's lieing right there" (points to spot 10ft. from blood on road in briar thicket).
Tell me your funniest hunting stories.
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Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex, briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels.
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We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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Godric had been his personal attendant since his sixteenth year and the man had been just as preoccupied about the state of Briar's appearance then as he was now.
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On one side lay a patch of endless briars on the other a 20 ft drop to the sharp rocks and unbridled sea below.
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Arm outstretched upon the table, Briar watched as his wrist bubbled with gooseflesh and a shiver tiptoed along his spine.
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The moucher now carries a bill-hook, and as he shambles along the road keeps a sharp look-out for briars.
The Amateur Poacher
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Finaly Brad says (calm and cool) "She's lieing right there" (points to spot 10ft. from blood on road in briar thicket).
Tell me your funniest hunting stories.
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He looked down and saw a leg sticking up out of heavy briars.
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D. briarei is the only species of mesozoan reported from Octopus briareus and the third from the coast of Florida.
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A briarwood pipe is cold in the ashtray on his neatly arranged desk, and the faint aroma of aromatic tobacco always lingers.
Predator
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This fellow, 'he added, standing up at the table, and pointing across it to Matthew -' this fellow forgets, what every cottier in Briarfield knows, that all born of our house have that arched instep under which water can flow - proof that there has not been a slave of the blood for three-hundred years. '
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Seated on an up-turned bucket, drawing meditatively on his well-seasoned briarwood, he looked a perfect picture of content.
A Pirate of Parts
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Where there are briars or large, dense shrubs, catbirds are sure to be present.
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So he went to where a single blackthorn limb spired above a briary thicket, rayed with fine spikes.
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American beautyberry, sumac, greenbriar, and hawthorn are part of the understory.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Sharing the bill with The Beatles were the somewhat-overlooked group The Briarwoods.
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Not from Miss Ainley's own lips did Caroline hear of her good works; but she knew much of them nevertheless; her beneficence was the familiar topic of the poor in Briarfield.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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One old settler relates that for a survey made for him by Lincoln he paid two buckskins, which Hannah Armstrong "foxed" on his pants so that the briars would not wear them out.
Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
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‘You're not stupid,’ Bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.
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Fire exclusion has diminished natural pine reproduction as more fire-sensitive hardwoods, vines, briars, and forbs invade the understory.
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American beautyberry, sumac, greenbriar, and hawthorn are common understory species.
Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)
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Brace up, my hearty," said Handy, removing the briarwood from his lips.
A Pirate of Parts
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She managed to convey to him -- without hurting his aged feelings or overwhelming him with embarrassment -- that if he preferred a clean churchwarden or his old briarwood, he need not feel obliged to smoke the new pipe.
The Shuttle
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He would talk to himself in English, ruffling his hands through his hair: "And then, at three o'clock I must go with Andrey Vassilievitch ..." or "I wonder whether she'll mind if I ask --" He had a large briar pipe at which he puffed furiously, but could not smoke without an endless procession of matches that afterwards littered the floor around him.
The Dark Forest
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'Clean grounds of all such rubbish as briars, brambles, blackthorns, and shrubbs' (then more often choking the ground than now), which are to be fagoted as good fuel for baking and brewing.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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More Briard puppy updates at thecoughlin, under her briard puppies tag.
"suicide contagion."
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To come along this side of the river, they'd have to cross the Grange fields first---a lot of fields, most bordered with briar ditches.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Beside the chair was a table with books on it and an ashtray with a briar pipe.
SNOWJOB
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The crowd of girls was in the big "quartette" room in the West Dormitory of Briarwood Hall.
Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund
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I fancied that my Sunday coat was scented for days afterwards by the bushes of sweetbriar and the fraxinella that perfumed the air.
Cousin Phillis
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Smith," said Handy, "you take the cake," removing the briarwood from his mouth to knock the ashes from the bowl preparatory to loading up for
A Pirate of Parts
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Hips are preferred; at least, the fruit of the briar is the first of the two to disappear.
Round About a Great Estate
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Black briary fruit flavours and chocolate characters combined with a subtle vanillin oak complexity.
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Past the eglantine, the briars and the bloodgrass?
The Best American Poetry 2008
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Forty six interminable hours of being seated in front of eleven thin, nervous, gangly supposedly artistic men lay before Briar as he reluctantly donned his finest doublet the following morning, aided by his valet, Godric.
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Bowl of a briarwood pipe, serrated at the edge; much worn and blackened; bound with string at the crew.
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
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In this kind of environment, post-feminism confronts the young feminist as something of a briar patch to be negotiated with care.
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Rare, exotic but useless flora begin to bloom -- stinkweed, fungi, poison ivy, thorny briars.
Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism
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Crescent shaped brows raising upon her forehead, Morgana turned a questioning look upon her husband as Briar threw open the doors to the throne room.
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Spam detection software, running on the system 'briar', has identified this incoming email as possible spam" if the email is spam.
Townx - Comments
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Throughout this long afternoon, we remained motionless in the briar patch.
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Noble Poverty may have been the assertion, by a spirit netted among the briars of this world's policy, that at least it saw and suspired after the way to Heaven.
Brother Copas
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Throughout this long afternoon, we remained motionless in the briar patch.
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Immediately, Maria snatched her hand back quicker than if it had just come into contact with a briar bush.
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a briar patch
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‘You're not stupid,’ Bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.
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This in respect to the production of the fruit surrounding the seeds of trees has been assimilated to the gall-nuts on oak-leaves, and to the bedeguar on briars, but there is a powerful objection to this doctrine, viz. that the fruit of figs, all which are female in this country, grow nearly as large without fecundation, and therefore the embryon has in them no self-living principle.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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That is what we call the berries of the briar-rose, and in England the hawthorn berries are haws.
Three Little Cousins
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And at the other end is a garden all in brambles and briar rose.
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She continued till the path curved, where she did not follow it, and instead began to bushwhack through the small poplar trees and briar undergrowth of the Island thicket.
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Now is a good time for pruning soft fruit bushes, such as whitecurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackcurrants and briar fruits.
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The briar pipe continued to epitomise solid, dependable, common sense masculinity.
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The 26 inch barrel would hang on every briar, limb, and vine in the woods and it balenced well forward of the action.
This is kind of random, but do you think a sniper rifle make a good hunting gun?
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Immediately, Maria snatched her hand back quicker than if it had just come into contact with a briar bush.
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Breast heaving, Violet gaped at her former siblings, her brows knitting and unknitting themselves as she saw the Unknown Princess as Althia, not merely similar to her in looks and mannerisms, but Althia herself, alive and loved by Briar.
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To me she seems pretty much below the radar, and seen to have been pushed into the background aka the briar patch.
If Republicans take the House in 2010, a possible Obama pivot to center?
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Violet cried, casting a venomous glance towards the hallway as Briar and Althia exchanged a glance.
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Althia broke off, emitting a strangled noise in her throat and burying her face in Briar's shoulder.
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Briareus, and the beast of Lerna hissing horribly, and the Chimaera armed with flame, Gorgons and Harpies, and the body of the triform shade.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Species whose fruits are used both in Europe and Asia include the briar rose or dog rose, which is made into tea or tisane, and the eglantine.
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For March, there come violets, specially the single blue, which are the earliest; the yellow daffodil; the daisy; the almond – tree in blossom; the peach – tree in blossom; the cornelian – tree in blossom; sweet – briar.
The Essays
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This guy, his name was Briarly or Beardly or something.
