How To Use Briony In A Sentence
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He that would know the operation of the herbs must look up to the stars astrologically," says this master; and so to him briony is "a furious martial plant," and brank ursine "an excellent plant under the dominion of the moon.
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(From Amazon. com): With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland.
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Briony crammed the cap low over her brow as if to express solid determination, then swung round and left the room.
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The ground was padded with pine-needles, briony berries shone in the hedgerows below, and hips and haws and rowans also rioted in red.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
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As a rule, the fistula is dilated by a tent of alder-pith, mandragora, briony or gentian, the lining membrane destroyed by an ointment of quick-lime or even the actual cautery, and the wound then dressed with egg-albumen followed by the _unguentum viride_.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Briony Norris, an environmental health officer at the pollution control unit, said around 50 per cent of people who lodged complaints had a genuine grievance.
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Mark enjoyed a hair wash and trim while Carol was treated to a facial and Briony had a pedicure consultation as they prepared themselves for the Christmas break.
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By the light of the Queen Moon, now at her full in heaven, he saw that the orchard grass was clipped, and patterned with small clover, but against the hedges rose wild banks of meadowsweet and yarrow and the jolly ragwort, and briony with its heart-shaped leaf and berry as red as heart's-blood made a bower above them all.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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So he kissed her and they parted, and lay down and slept; she among her comrades under the apple-tree, and he under the briony in the hedge; and the moon came out of her dream and watched theirs.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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The treatment consists generally in ointments and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian, etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the surgeon.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Briony had an imperforate anus, a failure of her colon and rectum to meet up with the skin on the outside.
Between Expectations
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The treatment consists generally in ointments and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian, etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the surgeon.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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The earth was fuller of color than in the painted spring; the hedgerows were hung with brilliant berries in wreaths and clusters, luminous briony and honeysuckle, and the ebony gloss of the privet making more vivid the bright red of the hips and the dark red of the haws.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Another gate delivered them into the second court, grass-grown, and more wild than the first, where, as she surveyed through the twilight its desolation — its lofty walls, overtopt with briony, moss and nightshade, and the embattled towers that rose above, — long-suffering and murder came to her thoughts.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Atonement may very well be an accomplished film with its stunning beach scene but Knightley's portrayal of Cecilia is completely underwhelming and unbelievable and the film spends more of a focus on her pouting than on the intricacies of the characters, mainly Briony in her younger years.
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Briony walked down the path leading to the old but beautiful whispering willow.
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On the grey walls, the moss had fastened, and, round the pointed windows of the chapel, the ivy and the briony hung in many
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Then Briony became silent, staring angrily at the space above his left shoulder.
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Take a quart of lye prepared from the ashes of vine twigs, briony, celandine roots, and tumeric, of each half an ounce; saffron and lily roots, of each two drams; flowers of mullein, yellow stechas, broom, and St. John's wort, of each a dram.
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She looked fearfully on the almost roofless walls, green with damps, and on the gothic points of the windows, where the ivy and the briony had long supplied the place of glass, and ran mantling among the broken capitals of some columns, that had once supported the roof.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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It is not what Briony needs—if she had been having stridor, we would have heard the noise in her throat with each sharp intake of air.
Between Expectations
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The treatment consists generally in ointments and collyria in abundance, but in fistula lachrymalis incision and tents of alder-pith, mandragora (_malum terrae_), briony, gentian, etc., are recommended, and entropion is referred directly to the surgeon.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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The undergrowth was gorgeous: bramble, elder, honeysuckle, briony, rowan, and alder vied with one another in the vividness of their crimson and orange, while the bracken was a sea of pale gold.
The Luckiest Girl in the School
