It was also reported that overgrown brambles and hedges were a problem on the roadside. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
His parable of the reign of the bramble is the earliest example of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
He resumes his work as a shepherd and avoids contact with anything that might be called bramble, hedge, or scrub. From Wordnik.com. [Here we are?] Reference
As amongst all the trees and plants of the earth the bramble is the most troublesome, so it is also the most contemptible. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference
The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
The "bramble" is quite fully treated in Mr.R. Thompson's valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Success with Small Fruits] Reference
The word is rendered "bramble" in Judg. 9: 14, 15, and "thorns" in Ps. 58: 9. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
In case it is not, then the "bramble" will have to be regarded as the type of hedge that perhaps enclosed the threshing floor. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
It led almost straight up the mountain-side beneath over-hanging trees, under fallen timber, and through every kind of bramble imaginable. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia of Elk Creek Valley] Reference
And thick with bramble-blooms pink petals starred. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
The esquine partly resembles a creeper and partly a bramble. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Have you seen the listening snake?" bramble clutches for his bride. From Wordnik.com. [Silverpoints] Reference
We lay among the whins and bramble undisturbed till the dusk came on. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The heron, the cat, and the bramble bought the tithe of a certain parish. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
It curled up out of the bramble that laid underfoot, tickling my nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [Neophyte and Paradox] Reference
A common type at present among our bramble flowers is the vestal cuckoo bee. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
They reached the end of the field and were greeted by bramble and another gate. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Junior] Reference
He had a branch of bramble in his hand, plucked for the crimson of its leafage. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It doesn't amuse me scrambling over rocks and scratching my legs in bramble bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
Yet the bramble cannot be bent to bear delicious peaches, nor the sycamore to bear grain. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The old sailor was so startled that he jumped back, his hat tumbling off into a bramble-bush. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
But he still went on torturing himself with his bramble branch, the most insensible of lovers. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
No matter that a bramble of bills, riders and vexing legal wordplay was clogging the legislative agenda. From Wordnik.com. [One Nation, Under Futebol] Reference
A narrow path crossed what was once a field and which over the last 10 years has become a huge bramble patch. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
Nancy, who had evidently started to run and, missing the trail, had rushed into a tall clump of bramble bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Boulanger's paddle it must have turned over, for it had come right across a long bramble that had become submerged. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
Later on, the blossoms of lime trees, flowers of the honeysuckle, bramble, petunias, scabious, and a host of others. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The best plants to search will be the mountain ash, bilberry, honeysuckle, and bramble, given in their order of merit. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Sometimes it is a matted pile of tree vine, and bramble, obscuring every thing, and impervious save with knife and hatchet. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
(Lawyer: A long bramble full of thorns, so called because, "When once they gets a holt on ye, ye dȯȧnt easy get shut of 'em."). From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
I love to ascend rocky outcroppings through thickets of bramble until I suddenly break out on a mountain top with a 360 degree view. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.: 6 Ways to Do Nothing in a Wired World] Reference
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