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briar 1 or brier Noun 1. a shrub of S Europe, with a hard woody root (briarroot) 2. a tobacco pipe made from this root [French bruyère] briar 2 Noun same as brier1
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| But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose (for so the king's daughter was called): so that, from time to time, several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace. And if any man should do wrong, merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other. The scene in the picture at once shifted to Australia, where, in a pleasant room in Sydney, Uncle Henry was seated in an easy chair, solemnly smoking his briar pipe. |
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