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Examples
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I would rather be tased in a bramblebush than see that.
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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Rank weed, bramblebush, beds of nettles, encumbered the whole place; it was a scene of ruin and desolation.
Ravensdene Court 1899
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One, a very swarthy and ill-favoured man, between forty and fifty, I call Paul Grimm -- by origin a German, but by rearing and character French; from the hair on his head, staring up rough and ragged as a bramblebush, to the soles of small narrow feet, shod with dainty care, he was a personal coxcomb, and spent all he could spare on his dress.
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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One, a very swarthy and ill-favoured man, between forty and fifty, I call Paul Grimm -- by origin a German, but by rearing and character French; from the hair on his head, staring up rough and ragged as a bramblebush, to the soles of small narrow feet, shod with dainty care, he was a personal coxcomb, and spent all he could spare on his dress.
The Parisians — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Desire’s wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
Ulysses 2003
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