briery
Example Sentences
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The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle."
From Time Magazine Archive
His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs."
From Time Magazine Archive
The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is our own fault if we insist upon clambering over the rocky barriers, and scrambling through the briery hedges, in a mad eagerness to reach the goal.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The captive beauty soon I bound My lady's bosom to adorn,— Beauty whose joy I ne'er had found, Upon that tangled briery mound, But for the sharp and friendly thorn.
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
