He was called into active service in the autumn of that year, and accompanied General Rutherford to the banks of the Savannah, soon after the defeat of General Ashe atBrier Creek.
Lee so far complied * This first attack occurred in the vicinity of Brier Hill, about three fourths of a mile east of the courthouse.
Before night enough Jacqueminot buds showed rich colour to justify my filling the bowl on the greeting table, fringing it with sprays of the yellow brier buds and wands of copper beech now in its velvety perfection of youth.
There are, however, many indispensable varieties that do better for the infusion of vigorous brier blood.
Modern roses of the hybrid-perpetual and hybrid-tea types may be bought of several reliable dealers for twenty-five dollars per hundred, in two conditions, either grown on their own roots or budded on Manette or brier stock.
I have tried to formalize my roses these ten years past, but how can I, for my yellow brier (Harrison's) has followed its own sweet will so long that it makes almost a hedge.
This does best when budded onbrier or Manette stock, and needs petting and a diet of liquid manure, but it will repay the trouble.
The very old bush of thorny, half-double brier roses with petals of soft yellow crêpe, in which the sunbeams caught and glinted, took the lead as usual.
You say there is a brier growing in the grotto: if your vision wants me to build a church on the cliff, tell her she must first cause that brier to bring forth roses in this winter season.
The stream rushed on, the trees were the same, and in the hollow of the grotto the wild brier grew in its accustomed place, and the clinging moss and the ivy trails were unchanged.
It will be remembered that Peyramale had demanded that the brier should blossom before a church should be built.
Miss Nellie gimme out dinner en supper, den she put on she hat en gone to de ole chimbly en git some de brier what grow dey.
A field covered with tall, dry grass, right at the edge of a brier patch, looked a very likely place for cottontail.
So I began a large circle around the brier patch to catch the trail to his bed.
Eastward it butts on orchard closes and the village gardens, brimming over into them by wild brier and creeping grass.
About sunset we caught sight of them, just as they crossed Green Brier River, a wide, but shallow stream.
A day or so after we were ordered to move to Green Brier at the foot of the Allegheny and Cheat Mountains, the enemy occupying the latter, under general Reynolds.
Little Miss Brier was handsome and bright, Her leaves were dark green, and her flowers pure white; But all who came nigh her Were so worried by her, They'd go out of their way to keep clear of the Brier.
Then the gardener's wife the pathway came down, And the mischievousBrier caught hold of her gown; "O dear, what a tear!
So, on one bank of the river grew the brier rose, a fragile thing, swaying on a slender stalk and looking at its pretty reflection in the water; and on the other a sturdy pine tree, well rooted against wind and storm.
The river was full of logs, thousands upon thousands of them covering the surface of the water from the bridge almost up to the Brier Neighborhood.
And the Brier Neighborhood would be at its loveliest, for the wild roses were in blossom by now.
He had always been Rose's slave, and had often brought messages and notes from the Brier Neighborhood, so that when Stephen saw a folded note among the papers his heart gave a throb of anticipation.
The handful of chimneys and the smoke spirals rising here and there among the trees on the river-bank belonged to what was known as the Brier Neighborhood.
Would the sun rise on happy Mrs. Stephen Waterman of Pleasant River, or on miserable Miss Rose Wiley of the Brier Neighborhood?
As there was another of her name on Brigadier Hill, the Edgewood minister called one of them the climbing Rose and the other the brier Rose, or sometimes Rose of the river.
The pinkish speck that Stephen Waterman had spied from his side of the river was Rose Wiley of the Brier Neighborhood on the Edgewood side.
But verse 24 tells us the reason; she was a pricking brier to the house of Israel.
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despiseth them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree" (Is.
It is your right," said his daughter, quietly; "the Brier Brook swales were yours.
Will you invite me to shoot over Brier Brook swales to-morrow?
When they came to the edge of the brier patch, Brother Rabbit begged harder than ever.
I am afraid you will turn me loose in thebrier patch.
Do anything else with me, but please don't throw me in the brier patch.
The more he begged, the faster Gray Wolf hurried to the brier patch.
She replies, As on the brier the budding rose Still richer breathes and fairer blows, So in my tender bosom grows The love I bear my Willy.
Then, smoothing the broken earth, she covered it with sods of fresh moss, while overhead the sweet-brier and azalia met in a beautiful archway of fragrant leaves and flowers.
The direction the brier was moving was toward the guard-line, some 100 feet away to the left.
There were indications in the weeds that the cat-brier extended to there.
As it came opposite Si jumped out, put his foot on the cat-brier and lifted up the rag.
The tessellated shadow of the honeysuckle lies motionless upon my study floor, as if it were a figure in the carpet; and through the open window comes the fragrance of the wild-brier and the mock-orange.
Peter was getting his breakfast in the sweet-clover bed, just beyond the old brier patch.
He made him acquainted with all his own secret hiding places in the old brier patch.
Then he started for the old brier patch as fast as his long legs could take him, and after him ran Granny Fox.
As he ran he heard Peter Rabbit thumping in the old brier patch.
That's because you are so homely that no one wants you for a dinner when he can find anything else," said Peter Rabbit, who had come up from the friendly old brier patch.
When finally she had gotten her breath and scrambled to her feet, Peter Rabbit was almost over to the friendly old brier patch.
This time, however, the only place of safety he could think of was the friendly old brier patch, and that was a long way off.
He knew also, from his grandfather, that many princes had already come and sought to pierce through thebrier hedge, and had remained caught in it and died a sad death.
Then the wedding of the Prince andBrier Rose was celebrated with all splendor, and they lived happily till they died.
Now, however, the hundred years were just ended, and the day had come when Brier Rose was to wake up again.
But round the castle a hedge of brier roses began to grow up; every year it grew higher, till at last it surrounded the whole castle so that nothing could be seen of it, not even the flags on the roof.
Then the young Prince said: "I am not afraid; I am determined to go and look upon the lovely Brier Rose.
But there was a legend in the land about the lovely sleeping Brier Rose, as the King's daughter was called, and from time to time princes came and tried to force a way through the hedge into the castle.
As he touched her, Brier Rose opened her eyes and looked quite sweetly at him.
When the Prince approached the brier hedge it was in blossom, and was covered with beautiful large flowers which made way for him of their own accord and let him pass unharmed, and then closed up again into a hedge behind him.
At last he reached the tower, and opened the door into the little room where Brier Rose was asleep.
Emerging from the brier patch with his coat tails torn into ribbons, the mud-begrimed professor held on the even tenor of his way without any diminution of speed for a hundred yards or so, when his pace began to slacken a little.
Coming to a brier patch, he was on the point of diverging from his course in order to try and go around it, when another scream precipitated the terror-stricken professor into the patch like a catapult.
The oddly appearing character had not moved from his place, but stood, still looking after the stranger--the brier pipe in his mouth, the Irish Setter at his feet.
The young man laughed as the other paused to puff vigorously at his brier pipe.
