briony
Americannoun
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And the chaplets of briony berries that look as if they had been thrown over the hedges are beginning to change to scarlet here and there.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The cottage was an old, black, timbered and thatched edifice, and had four rooms of considerable dimensions, two above and two below, with a porch in the front, overgrown with briony and another hardy creeper.
From Shanty the Blacksmith; a Tale of Other Times by Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha)
She wore long, loose gloves, to guard her hands and wrists, and as she came she had pulled autumn leaves of briony and bramble, and brier sprays with their bunches of glowing hips.
From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret
This plant, like the red-berried briony of England, is highly ornamental.
From Canadian Crusoes by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
While each red hip shows where a faint rose blossomed and fell; while the elder holds stoutly aloft her flat, black clusters; while the briony clasps the hawthorn-hedge, we cannot complain.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
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