sweetbriers

It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweetbriers tremble. —

Walden 2004

She asked me if I didn't smell the clover-blows, how sweet they was; and then she talked about white lilies, and how she liked 'em most of anything, without it was sweetbriers.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

She met the gentlemen at a turn of the drive by rampant sweetbriers.

The Highwayman 1919

Alders and sweetbriers grew in his fence corners undisturbed that spring if he discovered that they sheltered an anxious-eyed little mother.

The Song of the Cardinal 1915

Alders and sweetbriers grew in his fence corners undisturbed that spring if he discovered that they sheltered an anxious-eyed little mother.

The Song of the Cardinal Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

There's a forsaken farm-house near Eriecreek, dropping to pieces amongst its wild-grown sweetbriers and quince-bushes, that I used to think a wonder of antiquity because it was built in 1815.

A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878

It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweetbriers tremble. —

Walden~ Chapter 12 (historical) 1854

I revelled in the breath of the woodbines and sweetbriers, and where I sat under tall and spreading trees, and wondered why towns and cities were ever built.

Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is 1852

It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweetbriers tremble.

Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

"I think sweetbriers are handsome in the graveyard.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various