briery
Example Sentences
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His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs."
From Time Magazine Archive
The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill.
From Time Magazine Archive
The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle."
From Time Magazine Archive
The little things, the little briery things of life were holding her fast, tripping her headlong desires.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
The captive beauty soon I bound My lady's bosom to adorn,— Beauty whose joy I ne'er had found, Upon that tangled briery mound, But for the sharp and friendly thorn.
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
