"Briery" Quotes from Famous Books
... parlour window and watched the pale moonbeams darting amidst the sombre and venerable yew-trees that shed their solemn shade over the little garden! How often have I strolled down the woody paths, spangled with the dew of morning, and shaken off the briery branches that hung about me! How tranquil did I feel, escaped from kindred tyranny, and how little did I regret the busy scenes of fashionable folly! Unquestionably the Creator formed me with a strong propensity to adore the sublime and beautiful of his works! But it has never been my ... — Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... cushat kens! [each, dove] Ye haz'lly shaws and briery dens! [woods] Ye burnies, wimplin' down your glens, [winding] Wi' toddlin din, Or foaming strang wi' hasty stens [heaps] ... — Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... 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 ... — Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various |