briar

On, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.

Unmistakably, up from the paper rose the strong, vivid scent—of a briar-wood pipe.

All England hath paid his taxes with my patrimony: I was a sheep that left my wool on every briar.

He loiters with the briar rose,— The blue-belles are his play-fellows,That dance upon their slender stem.

My coat was torn on a briar; I fired my gun at a crow as I went over the fields to my cottage.