Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
1You are the eglantine in human form, and often quite as briery.
2I took my neighbor to see this briery wilderness, and asked his advice.
3They have a most unkind preference for briery bushes, that discourage human intimacy.
4It is even more vigorous than the preceding, but not so briery or branching.
5Gardening, berry-picking, and she helped with the gooseberries, the briery vines she did not like.
6Her briery talk should only amuse me.
7We crawled through a briery place to where a gap opened to the vale on our left.
8You are still briery, Mam'selle.
9The sower opened his hand as freely in crossing the highway or the patch of briery ground as anywhere else.
10The glad creek rose high above its banks and wandered from its channel out over many a briery sand-flat and meadow.
11Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet.
12Miss Phelps, young herself, glanced angrily at her briery charge, longingly at the brilliant blue of sky and bay beyond the long window.
13Annie looked as if she might become a briery one at that moment, for this direct style of compliment, though honest, was not agreeable.
14Here at the foot of the slope the winter sun lay warm, and here in the sheltered briery border I came upon the Christmas birds.
15I did not hear the voice of the turtle, but a nightingale sang in the briery thickets by the brook side, as we passed along.
16How often have I strolled down the woody paths, spangled with the dew of morning, and shaken off the briery branches that hung about me!