Example Sentences

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It had snowed the evening before, a white that dulled the mystery but not the blood-letting ability of the briary interior of The Triangle.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Don't you 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 of her way.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Facing that briary jungle on the ground level was a little daunting.

From Star Born by Norton, Andre

“What’s the matter?” cried Nellie, who had stopped without the briary tangle into which her brother had plunged, noticing that his accents of delight suddenly changed to those of pain.

From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by Greene, John B.

High in the hills the solitary thrush Tunes magically his music of fine dreams, In briary dells, by boulder-broken streams; And wide and far on nebulous fields aflush The mellow morning gleams.

From Lyrics of Earth by Lampman, Archibald