sweetbread

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She asked me if I didn't smell the clover-blows, how sweet they was; and then she talked about white lilies, and how she liked 'em most of anything, without it was sweetbriers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various

I think sweetbriers are handsome in the graveyard.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various

A few sweetbriers, alders, honeysuckles, laburnums, etc., should be thrown in.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

There's a forsaken farm-house near Eriecreek, dropping to pieces amongst its wild-grown sweetbriers and quince-bushes, that I used to think a wonder of antiquity because it was built in 1815.

From A Chance Acquaintance by Howells, William Dean

It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweetbriers tremble.—Eh,

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David