bullbrier

This was his middle range, a place of dense coverts, bullbrier thickets and sunny open spots among the ledges, where you might, with good-luck, find him on special days at any season.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

It led straight to the bullbrier thicket where the old beech partridge roosted.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

Years later I crossed the old pasture and went straight to the bullbrier tangle.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

The fox had struck the trail late the previous afternoon, and followed it to a bullbrier thicket, in the midst of which was a great cedar in which the old beech partridge roosted.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909

One who walks in the woods at sunset sometimes hears it from a tangle of grapevine and bullbrier.

Ways of Wood Folk William Joseph Long 1909

Across the meadow, to dine on the remembrance of field mice -- alas! safe now under the crust; along the brook, where he once caught frogs; through the thicket, where the grouse were hatched; past the bullbrier tangle, where the covey of quail once rested nightly; into the farmyard, where the dog is loose and the chickens are safe under lock and key, instead of roosting in trees; across the highway, and through the swamp, and into the big bare empty woods; till in the sad gray morning light he digs under the wild apple tree and sits down on the snow to eat a frozen apple, lest his stomach cry too loudly while he sleeps the day away and tries to forget that he is hungry.

Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909