bramble

• “The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea.”

  Try Anything Twice

• “He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub.”

  Here we are?

• “Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world.”

  Personality in Literature

• “His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “Here in my present picnic is the suggestive parallel, for even though no such actual episodes as those I have described had been witnessed by me, an examination of the premises beneath my bramble were a sufficient commentary.”

  My Studio Neighbors

• “As amongst all the trees and plants of the earth the bramble is the most troublesome, so it is also the most contemptible.”

  Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.

• “The bramble is a worthless plant, not to be numbered among the trees, useless and fruitless, nay, hurtful and vexatious, scratching and tearing, and doing mischief; it began with the curse, and its end is to be burned.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)

• “The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.”

  ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

• “In case it is not, then the "bramble" will have to be regarded as the type of hedge that perhaps enclosed the threshing floor.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• “It led almost straight up the mountain-side beneath over-hanging trees, under fallen timber, and through every kind of bramble imaginable.”

  Virginia of Elk Creek Valley

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