brier

• You git ter de sweetgum,' sezee, 'en den you go up de branch twel you come ter a little patch er bamboo brier--but de grapes ain't dar. —  Nights With Uncle Remus
• She was like the wild sweet-brier roses which crowded alluvial strips of the island, fragrant and pink and bristling. —  The Black Feather From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
• Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate 175 If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss; Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion Infect thy sap, and live on thy confusion Ant. —  The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
• Dearly loved had these brier-roses or dog-roses been in England, where, says the old herbalist, Gerard, "children with delight make chains and pretty gewgawes of the fruit; and cookes and gentlewomen make tarts and suchlike dishes for pleasure thereof." —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• Sweet-brier is at home in New England pastures and roadsides. —  Home Life in Colonial Days

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