All the blasts that ever blew must be unavailing against the briery rock that shelters the hut from the airt of storms; and the smoke may rise under its lee, unwavering on the windiest day.
The sower opened his hand as freely in crossing the highway or the patch of briery ground as anywhere else.
To-day we passed through what is called the Glades and Wilderness, to the Briery mountain.
The first day they got to the widow Miller's, on Briery Branch, in the southwest corner of Rockingham County.
The light fell full on his clothes, tattered by his briery flight, the long dishevelment of his yellow hair, his burning face, and the blazing fury in his brown eyes.
There was sickness at Briery Bank, and Norton and I were at the parsonage ever so long.
She has been at Briery Bank, Judy," said Norton, "where the wines are as good as in Blessington Avenue.
They have a most unkind preference for briery bushes, that discourage human intimacy.
You are the same briery rose, Jeanne," with an amused laugh.
But a willful girl takes her own way, and her way is sweet to the man who loves her, no matter how briery the path may be.
And Matilda loved Shadywalk and Briery Bank, but she was not ready with a response.
Briery Bank ought to be worth a good deal," said David, "when it takes so long to reach it.
As he grew better, she began to be very much in his room; taking care of him, reading or talking to him, and having very nice times planning garden for Briery Bank when they should go home.
The weeks were few now to the time when the household would break up; Mrs. Laval and her children to return to Briery Bank, Mrs. Bartholomew and hers for a cottage at Newport.
Burying nose deep down i' the briery bush, Thus I defend Count Guido.
The high seats in the gallery were not for them, but they were free to any other part of the meeting-house during life, and to a grave in the grassy and briery enclosure adjoining, when dead.
The edges of some leaves are as briery as the leaves of holly, others are comparatively smooth.
Or he would go with us into the heart of the great wood, to show us where the foxes had their earths--the party being sometimes so fortunate as to see the cubs disporting at the mouth of the briery aperture in the strong and root-bound soil.
It is social, yet not averse to solitude, singing often in groups, and as often by itself in the furze brake, or on the briery knoll.
Another climb over Briery Mountain brought the traveller down into Great Meadows, the largest tract of open land in the Alleghenies.
For those to whom Washington, the man, is "unknown," there are lessons in this little briery path today of value far beyond their cost.
The sun was well on his westing way when they left the iron gate of Briery Bank, bag in hand; and in the little lane of the parsonage the elm trees cast broad and long shadows.
However he divined that Miss Redwood might have some deep reason for being so energetic, and he was not slow in getting back to Briery Bank; so his mother's place was called.
I come, and I wish I had Jack's seven-mile boots to get to Briery Bank with.
Briery Cottage, which Mrs. Leslie had hired for the month, was very satisfactory in every way but one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "briery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bristly; prickly; stinging; thorny
