"Briary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remember my telling you I always want the best of everything?" he said as he followed her; and Diana went too fast for him to hold the briary branches out ...
— Diana • Susan Warner
... Maud. [Conning the address] "Briary Studio, River Road. Look out! Father is coming!" I'll go out the ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform^, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated^; cornute^, cornuted^, cornicultate^; prickly; spiny, spinous^, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated^, pectinated^, studded, thistly, briary^; craggy &c (rough) 256; snaggy, digitated^, two-edged, fusiform [Micro.]; dentiform^, denticulated; toothed; odontoid^; starlike; stellated^, stelliform^; sagittate^, sagittiform^; arrowheaded^; arrowy^, barbed, spurred. acinaciform; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy, furzy, briary wilderness—"Bruaria." Then follows the length and breadth in leagues; and, though some uncertainty exists as to the exact extent of this ancient lineal measure, it appears from the figures that the area of Egdon down to the present day has but little diminished. "Turbaria Bruaria"—the ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... melody of hounds increased, and each man, as he got through the little gate, rose in his stirrups and hustled his horse along the green ride to catch up those on before. The plantation was about twenty acres, rather thick and briary at the bottom; and master Reynard, finding it was pretty safe, and, moreover, having attempted to break just by where some chawbacons were ploughing, had headed short back, so that, when the excited field rushed through the parallel gate on the ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees |
