Sandra planted roses where there had once been a brier.    From LearnThat.org. 

The man and woman were employed in bruising what was called brier root, which they had dug from the forest, for food.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Crockett] Reference

And is Lady S. pulling some kind of brier-patch scenario here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week 36: In All Their Grandeur and Monstrosity] Reference

Heb. hedek (Prov. 15: 19), rendered "brier" in Micah 7: 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Solanum sanctum (Heb. hedek), rendered "brier" (q.v.) in Micah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

The word "brier" or "briar" has no connexion whatever with the prickly, thorny briar which bears the lovely wild rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Social History of Smoking] Reference

My brier was the sweetest ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke] Reference

How sweet is the brier, wi 'its saft faulding blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

There grows a bonnie brier-bush in our kail-yard, vol. i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

And under the blackberry-brier whistled the serious quail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference

"Turn him loose in the brier patch!" cried all the animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

And the brier rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference

And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

The same rose-brier is nodding its untrimmed boughs by the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

The more he begged, the faster Gray Wolf hurried to the brier patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

As soon as they had gone out of my hearing I emerged from the brier thicket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson] Reference

Behind her was the trellis of the porch, with its sweet-brier hanging over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference

When they came to the edge of the brier patch, Brother Rabbit begged harder than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

"Good Wolf," he cried, "do anything else with me, but don't throw me in the brier patch!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference

Mormal, that forest whose breath was perfumed with nothing less delicate than sweet brier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

He may, if he please, have nothing to do with thistle or thorn, with bramble or brier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference

He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 38: Micheas The Challoner Revision] Reference

A boy who is as keen as a brier and smart as a whip cannot be expected to wear "humbly" clothes forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Dangling brier vines drew blood from arms and face, and sharp thorns repeatedly lacerated hands and knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

"Oh, no, father, the sweet-brier has been ordered," returned Algitha, without her usual brightness of manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

I am off with the little wool-gatherers, to see what thorn and brier and fern-stalk and willow-catkin will give me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

It is spring time, and the fresh air comes in through the opened window, perfumed with the rose and the sweet-brier.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference

"Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox," sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, "but do don't fling me in dat brier-patch," sezee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference