sweetbriar
- a variation of sweetbrier.
Example Sentences
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Arriving at the cottage they found the door open, and no one in the kitchen,—but on the table lay two sprigs of sweetbriar.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie
He forked over the earth in all the beds, tied up to a stick every daffodil that did not stand perfectly upright by itself, trimmed the sweetbriar hedge, and swept the paths.
From The Story of Jessie by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
She could feel the moist, sweet air of a showery summer evening on her cheek, and smell the scent of a branch of sweetbriar which Isaac had gallantly cut for her from the hedge.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
It's the old sweetbriar bush,"—she replied—"It lasts in leaf till nearly Christmas and always smells so delicious.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie
But the rose is of another and higher order than the corn, and you never saw a cornfield overrun with sweetbriar or apple-blossom.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
