briery
Example Sentences
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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 result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Miss Phelps, young herself, glanced angrily at her briery charge, longingly at the brilliant blue of sky and bay beyond the long window.
From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
He ran recklessly away into the rose garden; he caught a bumblebee; he pursued a daddy long-leg with the watering-pot, going deeper and deeper all the time among the briery branches.
From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various
