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Definition of Brionies
1. briony [n] - See also: briony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brionies
Literary usage of Brionies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Days and Hours in a Garden by E. V. B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle) (1884)
"in the twilight, of a white misshapen figure lying on the earth. There are,
however, few things more exquisitely graceful than the Black and White brionies. ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"YE doubters of a power divine, I pray you halt awhile with me Those brionies that
ever twine, These honied clarions of the bine, This little reverent lily ..."
3. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"Among them, the black and white brionies are distinguished. The berries also of
many of these little plants, are variously coloured in the different states ..."
4. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"It bears a round berry, like the brionies, first green, and then very black ;
when ripe, it hath sometimes a great matted bunch amongst it like dodder, ..."
5. Days and Hours in a Garden by E. V. B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle) (1884)
"in the twilight, of a white misshapen figure lying on the earth. There are,
however, few things more exquisitely graceful than the Black and White brionies. ..."
6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"YE doubters of a power divine, I pray you halt awhile with me Those brionies that
ever twine, These honied clarions of the bine, This little reverent lily ..."
7. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"Among them, the black and white brionies are distinguished. The berries also of
many of these little plants, are variously coloured in the different states ..."
8. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"It bears a round berry, like the brionies, first green, and then very black ;
when ripe, it hath sometimes a great matted bunch amongst it like dodder, ..."
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