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- noun Plural form of
brier .
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Examples
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Tom downs a bird in briers so thick even he? the most fearless among us? will not venture in.
The Bird Guys 1999
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"Oh, how full of briers is this working-day world."
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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She walked out of a greenfield into a palmetto swamp full of briers.
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I will cetainly be glad to "collect" an animal anytime the opportunity is available, because there have been many miles of briers, ticks, mosquitos, sand gnats, snakes, sweat and effort expended in between.
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As a kid I grew up shooting bob white quail which "jumped" in coveys of 10 to maybe 30 birds simultaneously from knee deep grass which was filled with sharp briers and surrounded by loblolly pines.
It's All About Tempo 2009
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She walked out of a greenfield into a palmetto swamp full of briers.
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If you hunt on a lumber company tract here in the South, they are so thick with pines brush and briers you can't get through it without a machete.
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I will cetainly be glad to "collect" an animal anytime the opportunity is available, because there have been many miles of briers, ticks, mosquitos, sand gnats, snakes, sweat and effort expended in between.
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If you hunt on a lumber company tract here in the South, they are so thick with pines brush and briers you can't get through it without a machete.
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Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits.
Taxonomies Jason Lee Miller 2011
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