Prickly plants

Usage examples of briers.

Thou art gone, youthful warrior, but a hundred Wyandots are clearing the briers from thy path to the world of the spirits.

And I remember a battle with one of these urchins in the briers, an affair which did not add to the love of their family for ours.

Choked by briers and grapevines, blocked by sliding stones and earth, it rose and rose through the heat and burden of the day until it lost itself in the open heights.

Below, the stream ran straight, but there were growths of cane and briers.

The sounds continued, but seemed to come no nearer, and my courage returning, I got out again and ran wildly through the camp toward the briers on the creek, expecting every moment to be tumbled headlong by a bullet.

And when I reached the briers, what between panting and the thumping of my heart I could for a few moments hear nothing.

Superb she was, though her close-fitting travelling gown of green cloth was frayed and torn by the briers, and the beauty of her face enhanced by the marks of I know not what trials and emotions.

As it was, the poor creature could hardly move, and more briers were reaching for it.

When Celia points out that briers can be shaken off skirts, Rosalind replies that these briers are in her heart.

Now, the image has full impact and meaning briers in the heart would be painful and nearly impossible to remove.

For the vines and briers had grown all through it, and so thick that a good fat coon couldn't much more than get along.

But the briers had worked on me at such a rate that I felt like I wanted sewing up all over.

Through thickets, briers, and brambles they all rushed--bear, dogs, and hunter.

Dry leaves rustled underfoot and briers snagged at her pants, making complete stealth impossible.

She moved to the left, but the barrier of twisted briers stretched across the drive, barring her progress.