The cool air of the twilight was scented with sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
The sweetbrier trails its pink fingers through the water. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
The scent of pink clover mingled with the odor of grasses and the delicate perfume of sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
And then Polly got some white lilies, and I got some sweetbrier sprigs, and laid round her in the coffin. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
A little sweetbrier rose fell out from the white lace about her face, against the soft brown of her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
Young girls, crowned with sweetbrier and other flowers, made a long cortege through the Corso, under arches, and sang choruses on the new grass. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
For the rest, a bit of honeysuckle was trained up one side of the porch, and at the small wooden gate there were two bushes of sweetbrier that filled the warm air with fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
This little bit of sweetbrier, it quite scents the room. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
A smell of fur mingled with odors of sweetbrier and loam. From Wordnik.com. [The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference
And I gathered for her two or three sprays of sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [A Day of Fate] Reference
The man who painted it didn't know a sweetbrier from a thistle. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The Cardinal was hatched in a thicket of sweetbrier and blackberry. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Cardinal] Reference
'And to the end of your life you will scent yourself with sweetbrier?. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
I've fetched her along a bit of sweetbrier, very sweet to smell it is. From Wordnik.com. [The Railway Children] Reference
Wild roses and sweetbrier sent up their evening incense to the radiant sky. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference
Brookville -- and pansies, sweet williams, lads 'love, iris and sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [An Alabaster Box] Reference
The lawns, bright and soft, sloped for half a mile to the sweetbrier hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Life at High Tide] Reference
She pushed aside the swaying branches of the sweetbrier, and pointed tragically. From Wordnik.com. [Five Little Peppers at School] Reference
He now gave us some roses and sweetbrier, and let us out from his pleasant garden. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference
"And the sweetbrier," said Phyllis, sniffing it loudly; "don't forget the sweetbrier.". From Wordnik.com. [The Railway Children] Reference
"We were talking all the time of the sweetbrier and hollyhocks, -- and things like that.". From Wordnik.com. [The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance] Reference
"You did not go to the pilgrimage, poor little one!" he said across the sweetbrier hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Bebee] Reference
The room where the old folk dwelt at Craig Ronald was fresh within as is the dew on sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
It was odorous with the evening dew on the vines outside and the peculiar fragrance of sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
It was high enough for me to stand upright under it and the sides were screened by a climbing sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood] Reference
Nedda, waking, could hear the heavy drops pattering on the sweetbrier and clematis thatching her open window. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
The light was poor in the Cabin, so I set up my camera and focused on a sweetbrier climbing over the back door. From Wordnik.com. [Moths of the Limberlost] Reference
He plucked a bit of sweetbrier and put it to his nose, which still retained the shine of that bleaching ointment. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
The window was open, and the sweetbrier and the rose-vines made a very pretty frame for the delicate young face. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference
A wild bee hunting honey from the bowl of flowers on the window-sill, and the scent of sweetbrier, shattered that illusion. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
It was a quaint old garden into which Anthony led them, full of the scent of herbs and spices, rosemary, thyme, and sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [For the Faith] Reference
Andrew pressed close to the window through a growth of sweetbrier which rasped his hands and sent up a sweet fragrance in his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Portion of Labor] Reference
A sudden brightening of memory brought to mind the love that his mother -- dead since his fifteenth year -- had kept for this sweetbrier. From Wordnik.com. [A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches] Reference
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