Prickly shrub

Usage examples of brier.

Two years ago, when she had turned seventeen, he had at last given Brier her chance as a randon candidateif she passed his private initiation.

Once, Brier could have judged to a hair how matters stood between the brothers.

Before Brier could stop her, she had slipped into the crowd and begun to winnow through it, apparently in search of the most articulate sleep-talker.

Before she could answer, Brier Iron-thorn came swiftly into the cell, very large and controlled, prepared to be very dangerous.

She introduced Lyra to them but not to Brier Iron-thorn, whose expression stopped her.

Not waiting to see if he obeyed, not needing to, she and Jorin went in search of Brier Iron-thorn, whom they found at the head of the main stairs, outrun by the fleeing Highborn.

As Lyra reluctantly departed, Jame wondered if the old woman would also dismiss Brier Iron-thorn.

Mistrusting their stomachs if not their nerves, Brier stopped them at the stair-head and descended alone, cautiously, into the chambers of her former lord.

The cadets rowed furiously to keep in the center of the channelno easy matter without the rudder oar, which Brier had out of its lock to fend off debris.

From the other end of the barge, near the prow, Brier Iron-thorn stared at her.

But what lady of stature, what Captain Hawthorn, and what had Vant warned Brier about?

Out in the hall, Jame turned leftaway from the direction in which Brier had goneand stormed off.

None of them had seen Brier in hours, and all found excuses not to talk about her.

If Brier had come this way, though, it ought at least to support Jame.

For a long moment, Brier was silent, staring blindly at the far horizon.