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Examples
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And stuck into a loop in the belt, made for the purpose, there was a small brier-wood pipe.
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Josh rose and went to the fire to relight his brier-wood pipe, which had gone out during the recital.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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But I am so weak that I return to it again and again, as a smoker does to his brier-wood.
From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell
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Down the spine of the cliff the tangle of brier-wood and brambles, though not leafless, still showed brown, and the long trails which were lifted and bowed down as the sudden gusts of wind swept over them, looked bare and wintry.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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I'd ordered a box of Okanagan Valley apples, and a gramophone and a dozen opera records, and a brier-wood pipe and two pounds of English
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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Once a grammar-school Rabbit, struggling from long Trousers toward his first brier-wood Pipe, had Growing Pains which he diagnosed as the pangs of True Love.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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Once a grammar-school Rabbit, struggling from long Trousers toward his first brier-wood Pipe, had Growing Pains which he diagnosed as the pangs of True Love.
Ade's Fables George Ade 1905
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'He stood erect, the smouldering brier-wood in his clutch, with a smile on his lips and a sparkle in his boyish eyes.
Lord Jim 1899
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Mr. Levice tramped about the woods with Tyrrell and brier-wood pipes, and appreciated the moral bravery of a man who struggled on with a happy face and small hope for any earthly rest.
Other Things Being Equal Emma Wolf 1898
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Captain, of sweet brier-wood, mounted in silver; and oh! oh! such
Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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