I watched him striding along, through bog and
brier, tapping with his stick, until he turned the end of a hill and disappeared in the next hollow.
Wild vines entangled the trees and flaunted in their faces; brambles and briers caught their clothes as they passed; the garter snake glided across their path; the spotted toad hopped and waddled before them; and the restless catbird mewed at them from every thicket.
The area had once been a grass plot, but was now shagged with briers and rank weeds.
The comte, still paler than Raoul, followed his son, painfully traversing
briers and bushes, stones and ditches, Raoul not appearing to touch the earth, no obstacle seeming to impede the lightness of his march.
She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and
briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be.
Constellation Brands announced it acquired a majority stake in Nelson's Green
Brier Distillery, marking Constellation's first ventures investment to be fully integrated into the business.
But agency officials say the levels of PCBs in the sediment and floodplain soils farther downstream, including in Little
Brier Creek and Lower
Brier Creek, are not expected to cause health effects or increase a person's risk of getting cancer.
WELSH sprint sensation Hannah
Brier finished sixth in the 100m final at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
A FASCINATING book about Whitley Willows - home of Margaret
Brier's grandparents Lucy and Harry Bates - has been published.
Brier Leahy suffered a broken collarbone, damaged spleen, torn liver and a ruptured bowel, which caused a serious infection, after falling at a cross country fence.