On the grey walls, the moss had fastened, and, round the pointed windows of the chapel, the ivy and the briony hung in many. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
The ground was padded with pine-needles, briony berries shone in the hedgerows below, and hips and haws and rowans also rioted in red. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The black-briony wreath was no longer on her head. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
An overgrowth of brambles and briony ran riot over all. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
You saw little Kiomi curled up under the hop and briony? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
The black briony mini dress paired with a grey leggings are my fave. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion World of SL] Reference
Emilia in the black-briony wreath: to see her, himself unseen, and go. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
This plant, like the red-berried briony of England, is highly ornamental. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Crusoes] Reference
This is briony-root carved like a mandrake into the shape of a man's legs. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
©2008 Campaign to elect briony Penn for Saanich-Gulf Islands | www. briony.ca | info@briony. ca. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Reference
Alice of the Hermitage brought two crowns of briony leaves and scarlet berries; so Morgraunt anointed what. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
She is going to wear a wreath of black briony (preserved and set by Miss Ford, a person cunning in these matters). From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
Wilfrid had come from London to have sight of Emilia in the black-briony wreath: to see her, himself unseen, and go. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
The wreath of black briony, spoken of by Tracy as the crown of Emilia's forehead, had begun to glow with a furnace-colour in. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
The girl sat before him swathed in a darkness, with the edges of the briony leaves shining deadly -- radiant above -- young Hecate!. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
He gave the ponies a rest half way up the hill, and, stretching up into the high hedge, gathered a beautiful spray of red-berried briony for Erica. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
Here the hedge is all hung with briony or traveller's joy; there is a burst of wild-roses, pale discs of faintest rose-jacinth, each with a full-seeded heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Isle] Reference
The berried briony garlands clung to the bared hedges, and here and there flared scarlet, still holding their red defiantly until hard frosts should come to shrivel and blacken them. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
So he kissed her and they parted, and lay down and slept; she among her comrades under the apple-tree, and he under the briony in the hedge; and the moon came out of her dream and watched theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard] Reference
Secretion of subcutaneous mucus is increased by blisters of cantharides, by application of a thin slice of the fresh root of white briony, by sinapisms, by root of horse-radish, cochlearia armoracia. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
"He that would know the operation of the herbs must look up to the stars astrologically," says this master; and so to him briony is "a furious martial plant," and brank ursine "an excellent plant under the dominion of the moon.". From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference
"And the chaplets of briony berries that look as if they had been thrown over the hedges are beginning to change to scarlet here and there. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
And briony-leaf to watch thee lie. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Was tugging at the vines of briony. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
I sate with Cythna; drooping briony, pearled. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
With briony and vine. From Wordnik.com. [Laudator Temporis Acti] Reference
The berried briony fold. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
And briony-vine and ivy-wreath. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
And bitter-sweet, and briony, and eye-bright. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
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