bramble-bush

He jumped into a bramble-bush,/And scratched out both his eyes;

intertribal: seven lies multiplied by seven multiplied by seven again intertribal 2010

He jumped into a bramble-bush,/And scratched out both his eyes;

seven lies multiplied by seven multiplied by seven again intertribal 2010

“The last rose of summer Stands blooming alone, While all its companions Are faded and gone,” into the very prickly bramble-bush with which he has ingeniously contrived to beset this question.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

‘That is the Greek Church, a triangle like all true religion’, I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles, ‘It spread out and became a bramble-bush like the Church of Rome’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

‘That is the Greek Church, a triangle like all true religion’, I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles, ‘It spread out and became a bramble-bush like the Church of Rome’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

‘That is the Greek Church, a triangle like all true religion’, I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles, ‘It spread out and became a bramble-bush like the Church of Rome’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

‘That is the Greek Church, a triangle like all true religion’, I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles, ‘It spread out and became a bramble-bush like the Church of Rome’.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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 1819-1893 2001

The cells they could see were jagged, uneven, with fibrous dendrites jutting out here and there, like a bramble-bush.

Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

‘That is the Greek Church, a triangle like all true religion’, I recall her saying, as she chalked out a triangle on the green baize, and then as she made it disappear in meaningless scribbles, ‘It spread out and became a bramble-bush like the Church of Rome’.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965