In the darkness he stumbled over logs and vines, became entangled in briers and brambles, and often was deluged with water from trees as he came in contact with overhanging boughs.
This process was continued and repeated until it was thought that all thorns and briers and pebbles had been licked and picked from the crippled feet.
The dogs--splendid blooded fellows, a great pack of over sixty of them--had gotten many thorns and briers in their feet.
In the districts depopulated through Roman exactions, through the revolt of the Bagaudes, through the invasion of the Germans, and the raids of brigands, the Benedictine monk built his cabin of boughs amid briers and brambles.
And as for the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.
With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and thorns shall be in all the land.
Upon the land of my people shall thorns and brierscome up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?
And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.
But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.
So he took the ancients of the city, and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.
And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.
Covered with tall trees & green briers Seperated from the Stard.
Canoes Seeing our Situation landed and come with as much Speed as possible through the briers and thick brush to our assistance.
The low briers tore her dress, the tallbriers scratched her hands and pulled her hair.
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle?
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Only too often, even when shady and otherwise attractive, there lies only the choice of wallowing through sand, stumbling over rocks, or tripping over briers that would shame the Gordian knot for close entanglement.
I hurried on, held back by green briers that were really my friends, and finally reached the spot.
Briers began to creep through the deserted courts, ivy to climb the dark heaps of masonry, and the blue morning-glory to sway and swing from the very turrets.
For a space it was hard going through the interwoven bushes and briers that tore even Menard's tough skin.
The elder bushes and briers crowded close to the little clearing behind the hut, and Menard, lying on his side with his face close to the ground, watched the clusters of leaves as they gently rustled.
He stumbled along, through briers and bushes, paying no attention to obstacles such as fences or stone walls until he ran into them, when he climbed over and went blindly on.
They were repeated, the sounds of breaking sticks, as if some one was moving through the briers and bushes beyond the stable.
But blushing at so base a suggestion of the enemy, he threw himself upon some briers and nettles which grew in the place where he was, and rolled himself a long time in them, till his body was covered with blood.
There was a wagon in the field, and Don and Bert Gordon were passing back and forth between it and a little thicket of bushes and briers that stood a short distance away.
They directed their course along the fence, which ran around the plantation, and wherever they found a clump of bushes or a little thicket of briers and cane, there they stopped long enough to set one of their traps.
The stream was wide and deep, and near the middle of it and opposite the spot where Dan stood, was a little island thickly covered with briers and cane.
The weeds and briers are gone, the blooming plants are saved,--that is enough.
He had hardly stepped among the briers when the pheasants began to rise at every step (the old man had not shown him that place the day before as he meant to keep it for shooting from behind the screen).
Olenin fired twelve times and killed five pheasants, but clambering after them through the briers he got so fatigued that he was drenched with perspiration.
He had ran upwards of eighty miles, naked except his shirt, and without food; his body nearly exhausted by fatigue, anxiety and hunger, and his limbs greviously lacerated with briers and brush.
Being some distance in the rear of his men, the Indians, in closing round them, fortunately left him without the circle, and he concealed himself amid some briers in the corner of the fence; where he lay until the next day.
Among the Briers and Wild Roses--Why the Roses have Thorns--Why the Wild Rabbits are White in Winter.
It was hardly necessary for him to ask the cause of the wounds, as the bunches of sweet briers and wild roses, with their sharp needle-like thorns, in the happy children's hands told the tale.
Once arrived, they keep aloof from cultivated domains, and spend their time in the dense underbrush of high woods, or in the clumps of briers of unimproved fields.
But if he met an obstruction--caught his foot in a root--fell among briers at the outset, he knew he was doomed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "briers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
