Full of prickly shrubs

Usage examples of briery.

This call brought out the occupant of the hut, upon whom Briery flashed the light of his lantern.

Kilooa and the holy hag there ensued a long colloquy, respectful on his part, sententious and impatient on hers, Briery listened with eager attention.

Kilooa started toward the east, I toward the west, and Briery took the southward course.

We watched it with very different emotions, Kilooa with superstitious reverence, Briery with scientific interest and intense disappointment, I with a heart full of wonder and gratitude.

I would not budge, he scrambled through the briery hedge and took me, whether I would or no, into his strenuous embrace.

Yet something else was moving just as fast, something was buzzing, flickering gold before her eyes, goading her with briery jabs.

Horses and camels, perhaps a score of them, were imprisoned in a small corral made of the briery bushes that tumbled across the sands with every wind.

It was rough and briery traveling, but we knew that the cave could not be far off.

It was rough and briery travelling, but we knew that the cave could not be far off.

Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet.

It is social, yet not averse to solitude, singing often in groups, and as often by itself in the furze brake, or on the briery knoll.

Thane was taken ere the dawn of day, and flung into a briery dell, where it was left, having been previously stript of every article of value.

Alias picked up the small creature, petted it briery, then dropped it outside the window.