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briar

[brahy-er] / ˈbraɪ ər /




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The glasses were sold along with a Barling briar pipe and two photographs of the comic.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2025

It created a taut moment before we were launched into the briar patch below and Br’er Rabbit could hop to safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024

And the witness box is his briar patch.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

They would never, ever allow themselves to be thrown into that particular briar patch.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2020

The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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