The undergrowth is chiefly cane, aquatic bushes, and swamp palmetto, while patches of blackberry brambles and thorny vines are met with at almost every step.
The trouble is you can't see far ahead and then there are briars and brambles and a lot of spiky plants, prickly pears and Spanish bayonets and cactus to run against and get scratched and cut with.
Their bodies swollen with silk, they mount upon the brambles prepared for them, there they shut themselves up in their golden prisons and become chrysalides.
A piece of his coat was torn, and some brambles were sticking to him, and the lantern was broken; what dangerous places he had pushed himself into could never be told.
The next to come upon the scene was the Squire, crushing through the brambles when he heard our voices.
The points selected are, by preference, the low brambles dragging along the ground, keeping their dense verdure during the winter and crammed with dead leaves from the oaks hard by.
Robert Robin, as he sped over to Brigg's Brambles to get little Sheldon.
I was thinking that I would like to loaf around Brigg's Brambles for a few days, then go over to Black-bug Swamp for a few days, then drop over to the river for a day or two, or possibly spend a short time at the lake!
Brambles forced him back and stones slid from beneath his feet.
The brambles still tore at their clothes and the bushes tripped them.
But brush and brambles had come in soon after the lumbermen left and now a thick stand of saplings also helped to choke the path.
This is a rare place for Saturdays at all times of the year, but specially in autumn, because of the brambles that grow there.
He stepped through a gap in the hedge, jumped a half-dry ditch, and wound his way through the scattering brambles and underbrush as if he had been in his own garden plot.
The brambles and weeds that had obscured the column and globe were now all cleared away, and it was for the first time possible to see clearly what these were like.
His first impression was that the central ornament was a sundial; but when he had switched away some portion of the thick growth of brambles and bindweed that had formed over it, he saw that it was a less ordinary decoration.
Some of the girls also used walking-sticks with crooked handles, which were found convenient weapons for hooking down brambles or branches of catkins.
The school scrambled back along the top of the wall, therefore, with what haste the brambles and hazel-bushes allowed them, splashed recklessly among the pools of the flooded lane, and regained the high road with quite record speed.
I was not leading now, but helping them, Dove and Letitia, over the rocks and brambles and steeper places of the ascent.
Robin followed with Letitia--to help her over the rocks and brambles and steeper places of the long ascent, which was far more arduous than one might think, looking up at it from the town below.
The spikelets from the trees formed a soft carpet over the route, and occasionally a brake of brambles barred the interspaces of the trunks.
On the other side of the rapids the brambles grew low down to the water's edge, and the tall eucalyptus trees made black shadows.
The sergeant set a couple of men to work on the brambles with their sabres, to cut a way for the carriage on one side of the pitfall that covered the road.
Hervart, whose hands were covered with scratches, "there are a lot of brambles in the wood.
The country was rough and Kenton could not at all protect himself from the brambles through which they passed.
With hurrying steps and beating heart she went on her way till she came out on the bleak mountain-side, where the stones cut her tender feet and the bramblestore her without mercy.
About its mouth the brambles grew tall and thick, and the ivy hung down in long festoons, for none had ventured in for many a long year.
One of the "forms" lay in a clump of fern and brambles near the corner of a fallow, the other on a slight elevation where a hedger had thrown some "trash" beside a ditch in a field of unripe wheat.
When outside the wood, I turned rapidly up the hill and found an excellent hiding place among some brambles on a thick hedge.
Every evening he stole through the shadows, climbed the leaf-strewn rabbit-track by the hedge, and swam across the pond from a dark spot beneath some brambles to the shelter of a gorse-bush overhanging the weeds.
Puss was resting in a clump of brambles not far from her "form," and saw the big hawk flying swiftly above.
She skirted the meadows and the rocks where the hunters had beaten down the gorse and the brambles near her home; thence she returned to the pool.
The vixen preferred to hide in the brambles to leeward of a burrow till an unsuspecting rabbit crept out into the open.
And as we were now pushing our way through the bushes and brambles along the overgrown banks, so in 1658 did Van Riebeek ride out with Van Goens 'all through the reeds, shrubs, lilies, and marshes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brambles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
