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More "Briery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Richard he carries his baby, And Mary takes little Jane, And lovingly they'll be wandering Through fields and briery lane." —MANCHESTER SONG. ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... and down the dim avenue, and they were now drawing near the leafless shrubbery at one end of the lime-walk—the shrubbery in which the ruined well sheltered its unheeded decay among the tangled masses of briery underwood. ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... up the stairs when Madam Conway, entering the hall with a lamp, discovered her, and uttered an exclamation of surprise at the strangeness of her appearance. Her dress, bedraggled and wet, was torn in several places by the briery bushes she had passed; her hair, loosened from its confinement, hung down her back, while her face was so white and ghastly that Madam Conway in much alarm followed her up the stairs, asking ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes
... assisted one or two distressed men of genius well-known to the world. The tales of the surreptitious goodness of his heart were many; but it was known too that the big kind man had a terribly searching eye under his briery brows, and could be as stern towards ingratitude as he was soft to misfortune. Henry once caught a glimpse of this as they spoke of a mutual friend whom he had helped to no purpose. Mr. Fairfax never used many words, on this occasion he ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne
... cried Sneak, tearing the kitten (whose briery nails had penetrated the skin of his nose) away, and throwing it across the room. "I say! did you do that?" continued Sneak, wiping the blood from his nose with his sleeve, and addressing Joe, who kept his eyes fast closed, though almost bursting ...
— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones
... the stream along through the swamp to the open meadows, and then on under the steep wooded hillside that ran up to the higher land of corn and melon fields. Here at the foot of the slope the winter sun lay warm, and here in the sheltered briery border I came upon the ...
— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various
... in his heart a strange wish for exploring The thorny and briery place, And, lo, a path through the deepest ...
— On the Tree Top • Clara Doty Bates
... was lone; the grass was dank With night-dews on the briery bank Whereon a weary reaper sank. His garb was old; his visage tanned; The rusty sickle in his hand Could find no ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
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