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

“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.

When Mr. Job Caudle was left in this briary world without his daily guide and nocturnal monitress, he was in the ripe fulness of fifty-seven. 

From Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures by Jerrold, Douglas William

And no wonder, for in her show-costume she was tortured with necklace, sleeve-loops, and bracelets of fine branchy, or rather briary coral, scratching and irritating her delicate skin, and leaving the print in red marks.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Every few yards they had to climb half rotted tree trunks studded with briary creepers and alive with ants.

From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Whitney, Elliott