But I am so weak that I return to it again and again, as a smoker does to his brier-wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference

'He stood erect, the smouldering brier-wood in his clutch, with a smile on his lips and a sparkle in his boyish eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Jim] Reference

Yes, ez you say, them silver-mounted brier-wood pipes is mighty purty, but he smokes so much ez it is, I don't know ez I want to encourage him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches] Reference

Mr. Levice tramped about the woods with Tyrrell and brier-wood pipes, and appreciated the moral bravery of a man who struggled on with a happy face and small hope for any earthly rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Things Being Equal] Reference

They were washed down by a tincupful of coffee strong enough to tan leather, then came a brier-wood pipeful of fragrant kinnikinnic, and a seat by the ruddy, sparkling fire of aromatic cedar logs, that diffused at once warmth, and spicy, pleasing incense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 1] Reference

Presently they left the table, and, to the astonishment of the waiters who removed the cloth, common brier-wood pipes, thoughtfully provided by Barker in commemoration of the Past, were lit, and they ranged themselves in armchairs before the fire quite unconsciously in their old attitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Partners] Reference

Mrs. Montrose, a stately dame of the old school, whose standard was the court in the days of Calhoun, Clay, and Webster, disapproved of this laxity, and when a couple of young fellows in striped array one evening whirled round the room together, with brier-wood pipes in their mouths, she was scandalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

‘He stood erect, the smouldering brier-wood in his clutch, with a smile on his lips and a sparkle in his boyish eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Jim] Reference