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A 14th-century ballade by Guillaume de Machaut set up György Ligeti’s hazy, briery “Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg,” from 1982.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2020

The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill.

From Time Magazine Archive

His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs."

From Time Magazine Archive

The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle."

From Time Magazine Archive

He had blazed for himself, some time before, a roundabout trail through the briery underbrush from the inn to within a few hundred feet of the cabin.

From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)