Eglantine is, according to the encyclopedia, a type of wild rose often called sweetbriar, but it is also often been used as a place or character name in English poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: The One Shot World Tour: Best Read With Vegemite!] Reference

Hedged round wi 'the sweetbriar and green willow-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

There is a pomegranate tree in the yard and a thicket of sweetbriar bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

I want to plant antique flowers in beds here, separated by sweetbriar hedges, but I wanted to wait and ask you what you particularly like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wayward Muse] Reference

Now the stalks of dead lilies stood up in a tangle of sweetbriar and leafless honeysuckle, and fungus rings showed dark green on the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

When she came down, an earthern pitcher, crowded with great white lilies, honeysuckles and sweetbriar, stood on the windows or mantel-pieces of every room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Love in the brake of sweetbriar smiled and sighed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference

Not to mention that the sweetbriar address borders water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Readthehook.com - Current Articles] Reference

It was the sweetbriar hedge that made me decide to miss the 9.15.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920] Reference

Old England -- the land of primroses and sweetbriar and true hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess of the School] Reference

So when the sweetbriar rose swung back to its place its petals were pale pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flower Stories] Reference

Templand sweetbriar, that had taken root finely, brought by one of those ladies I saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Just this last night you will be able to carry away with you a whiff of real sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose of Old Harpeth] Reference

She pushed open the gate and ran up the slope of the yard between the hedges of sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference

It had an overrun little garden in front, separated from the fields by a riotous hedge of sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher and Columbus] Reference

"It must take a great deal of coffee to wash down all that," said the doctor lazily trimming his sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

"It must take a great deal of coffee to wash down all that," said the doctor, lazily trimming his sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daisy] Reference

"Don't you remember," he went on, "you gave me a bit of sweetbriar on the evening of the first day we ever met?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference

It was a very fine evening, and my mother and he had another stroll by the sweetbriar, while I was sent in to get my tea.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield]

They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Arriving at the cottage they found the door open, and no one in the kitchen, -- but on the table lay two sprigs of sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference

Every Letter I have forgotten to speak of the sweetbriar - I should like/you/to keep it over the Winter, and send it in Spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

The poor little sweetbriar grew through all the east winds, and was flourishing beautifully, when heavy rains came and killed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

But the rose is of another and higher order than the corn, and you never saw a cornfield overrun with sweetbriar or apple-blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

Thither I ran so hastily, that a straggling sweetbriar caught my hat in my net, and dragged them off, sending my hair over my shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls] Reference

Thither I ran so hastily, that a straggling sweetbriar caught my hat and my net, and dragged them off, sending my hair over my shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls] Reference

Twitching Tom's hair as he passed him, treading on the cat's tail, and tossing a branch of sweetbriar full of thorns at Annabel, Mr. Roland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Channings] Reference

"I have that piece of sweetbriar still," he said; "I shall never part with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference

Is the sweetbriar enamoured of the air?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

Street to any abundance of violet and sweetbriar.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference