A garden will soon be overrun with weeds and briars, if it is not cultivated with the greatest care.
His coat was torn, his hat lost, and his face scratched right across with briars.
Martin, too, wore old clothes that would be none the worse for meeting with briars or crushed berries.
There was more than one bower composed entirely of rose-trees, and there were very long hedges of sweet briar and Scotch roses.
Upon the ridge thus formed he built a post and rail fence and along it planted cedars, locusts, pines, briars or thorn bushes to discourage cattle and other stock.
They have no desire to disturb wildlife or to struggle with bracken, bramble orbriar.
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That land is now merely producing a crop of thistles, briars, and nettles.
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Many of these are producing nothing but bracken and briars and are only grazed to a small extent by sheep, goats and poultry.
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They keep reverting to socialist ideas and their rose is returning to thebriarthat it was.
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Of these, only 150 gross were ofbriar.
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In addition, there are unproductive scrub areas with briars, gorse and birch trees.
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It is a product from those briars which will be re-exported.
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You can hardly see where they were; the ground is covered with brambles and with briars.
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We are still very much in the wood, and it is full ofbriarpatches.
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He had been in the thicket ofbriarfor so long, frozen into silence, that when he was given the chance to speak the words poured out almost without cessation.
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Outside of snake country, bird hunters often wear upland chaps made of waxed cotton or nylon to protect their legs from briars and thorns.
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The use ofbriarwood beginning in the early 1820s greatly reduced demand for clay pipes and to a lesser degree meerschaum pipes.
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The qualities of the meerschaum were combined with those of thebriarwood pipes by lining abriarpipe with a meerschaum bowl.
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The glass hatchet he was given broke on the first briars; the youngest daughter saved him again.
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The name may be the joining of "bil-" meaning set or a round place and "araitz" meaning blackthorn, prickly, orbriar.
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