briarwood
- a variation of brierwood.
Example Sentences
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The captain was sitting with his legs crossed, slowly smoking the old briarwood which he had carried through many a fierce 4 campaign, and seemingly sunk in deep thought.
From The Great Cattle Trail by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
Walker handed Hatteras his briarwood and his pouch of tobacco.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
King Crosspatch scolded and sulked because Lord High Chancellor would not permit him to smoke a briarwood pipe.
From The Green Forest Fairy Book by Brady, Loretta Ellen
And he handed me a choice Havana, one Monsieur Darzac had given him, while he lit his briarwood—his eternal briarwood.
From Mystery of the Yellow Room by Leroux, Gaston
While we were thus waiting, I was smoking my briarwood pipe, and, at what I supposed was the end of the smoke, I threw out the ashes and put the pipe in my breeches pocket.
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus
