brier-root

He smoked a pipe a good deal, and he preferred it to be old and violent; and once, when he had bought a new, expensive English brier-root he regarded it doubtfully for a time, and then handed it over to me, saying:

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Englishman, with his brier-root pipe; the American Justice, with a

The Sleuth of St. James's Square Melville Davisson Post

The French make elegant pipe-bowls of the root of the tree-heath, but their chief attention is directed, as far as concerns wood pipes, to those of brier-root, which are made by them in large quantities.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

It was a happy life, after all; and he had himself enjoyed it when his hands and face got browned by the sun, when he grew to wonder how any human being could wear black garments and drink foreign wines and smoke cigars at eighteenpence apiece, so long as frieze coats, whisky and a brier-root pipe were procurable.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

"My practice has extended recently to the Continent," said Holmes after a while, filling up his old brier-root pipe.

The Sign of Four 1915

"Where in the name o 'God did _you_ come from?" demanded the man with the brier-root pipe.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

He was about to back out of this entrance and strike still deeper when he found himself confronted by an engineer smoking a short brier-root pipe.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

Then each soldier brought forth his brier-root and gathered around the traveller for his story.

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

Smithfield was noted for its Virginia hams, its fine fish, its mullets that would leap Into the fisherman's boat while he lazily enjoyed his brier-root, its great sugary "yams," as the red sweet-potato was called.

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

The men were smoking their brier-root pipes about the embers, leaning against the dim bodies of the pines, while they discussed the incidents of the march with a touch of the unconquerable humour of the Confederate soldier.

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909