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briar

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briar: see brier brier or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier , and the greenbrier. French brier, or brierroot, is a name for the root of the European white heath so widely used in the manufacture of smoking pipes.
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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.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
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 Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
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.
Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
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