Some will probably think the growth of such propensities no more unaccountable than that of briars and thorns; being prepared, from their own experience and observation, to expect that both should spring without any particular culture.
A thousand shadow- hands stretched out after him as he ran; and he pushed his way through briars and creepers with a low cry.
We soon struck a herd of about 8,000 camels feeding on the grass and briars along the Shat-El-Chebar.
I looked around just in time to see Walton plunge over an embankment into a snarl of milkweeds, briars and rocks, head down, with his wheel on top of him.
And I saw it was filled with graves, And tombstones where flowers should be; And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.
He laughed with pleasure when he thought how pretty it would be when the maize grew up all round and shut out the briars on the fence which had begun to offend his eyes.
He fixed the stakes into the ground, and placed the briarsbetween them, and there was the fence, ready made.
Once more the priest hired a man and sent him to cut briars and stakes.
If it's on account of your own future, if you're trampling down a place in the briars to make your bed, as pa called it, then I think you can find a nicer place to camp than Ascalon.
A man's got to trample down the briars before he makes his bed sometimes, you know--come on in out of this cussed sun.
The thin switches of the undergrowth whipped her as she pushed them aside, and the huge briars twisted themselves about her like live things.
She slipped and slithered in and out of mossy leaf-pits, and the briarsclawed her hair and pinafore, as she robbed the primrose clumps with wet, reddened fingers.
It was probably the reception accorded to the bay mare by the branches and briars in which she had seated herself that caused her to return to the top of the bank in a kangaroo-bound, as active as it was unexpected.
The hill-sides were set thick with tree stumps, like the crowded headstones of a cemetery, with coarse grass and briars filling the spaces between them.
The area had once been a grass-plot, but was now shagged withbriars and rank weeds.
While he dived within the room I got out through the little gate and back into the avenue, where the briars and undergrowth had made hedges behind which one could easily find cover.
I had to creep on my hands and knees through thebriars and undergrowth to reach the place where she was, which was a clear space in the midst of the tangle.
By the river," says he, "where there are neither rocks to throw us over, nor briars to balk our progress.
Where the briars and weeds are thick they bend down under the weight of the drifts, but hold them up sufficiently to provide hiding-places for the rabbits and quail, and shelter them from the cold.
There is one corner where there are weeds and briars that seemed to be their favourite shelter and feeding ground, but there was not a track to be seen.
The briars and withered golden-rod stalks form shelters where the drifts can form and be carved into wonderful shapes by the driving wind.
For time will bring on summer, When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns, And be as sweet as sharp.
Madeline was off her horse by this time, pushing through the briars regardless of her new riding habit.
Often Elizabeth must make quite a circuit among cat-briars and huckleberry bushes and young underwood, or keep the path at the expense of stepping up and stepping down again over a great stone or rock blocking up the whole way.
Mary spoke so kindly to them; said she would be so glad if they would open a path for her to walk in, she would thank them so much; so they began to pull the briars back until there was a good path.
They tried to go through between the stoles, but the thistles were too thick and the brambles and briars too many; they could flourish here till the ash-poles grew tall and kept away the sun.
Thistles in the grass and trailing briars stayed him.
The curved hooks of brambles and briars inflict lacerated hurts worse than the spikes of thorns.
Some of these briars stretch forth into the meadow, and then, bent down by their own weight, form an arch crowned with flowers.
Fortunately, almost every other one has a gap worn at the side just large enough to squeeze through after coaxing the briars to yield a trifle.
Silver's coat became blood-flecked where briars and brambles raked the skin.
Breaking through a particularly dense cover of berry canes with briarsthat hurt, the riders found it clear ahead.
The briars are so thick here, they almost tore off my shoe-- it is not laced tight, you know.
If you don't help me get out of the briars I shall report you to the captain--if we ever find her," and another laugh grated on the frightened ears of Madaline.
They lie on beds of roses, and spread their gauze wings to the sun and summer gale, and cannot bear to put their tender feet to the ground, much less to encounter the thorns and briars of the world.
When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.
I want to see my vague notions float like the down of the thistle before the breeze, and not to have them entangled in the briars and thorns of controversy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "briars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
