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Definition of Briers
1. brier [n] - See also: brier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Briers
Literary usage of Briers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roses for English Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll, Edward Mawley (1902)
"The Scotch briers are excellent plants for many kinds of use, but are perhaps
best of ... These fine hardy briers have also one merit that most Roses lack, ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1843)
"Miss briers went up stairs, pretended to have come on a missive of charity, ...
Miss briers wrote a note, but in the name of the lady, and addressed to Mr. ..."
3. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"After groping through the brush and briers, which seemed to grow thicker the ...
said he, as he tore away from a thick jungle of briers, in which he had ..."
4. The Plants of the Bible by John Hutton Balfour (1885)
"18); and God in chastening Israel often refers to the curse of thorns Thus Isaiah
says, " Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers" (xxxii ..."
5. Bedfordshire Notes and Queries edited by Frederic Augustus Blaydes (1893)
"The first who settled in this county was William briers, of Salford (bur. ...
Sir William briers was knighted at Whitehall 29 Apr. 1627; ..."
6. Sermons by Thomas Arnold (1874)
"Upon the land of my people shatt come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all the
houses of joy in the joyous city. THERE are two parts of the Christian ..."
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