| Where there are briars or large, dense shrubs, catbirds are sure to be present. |
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| On one side lay a patch of endless briars on the other a 20 ft drop to the sharp rocks and unbridled sea below. |
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| Glen smiled at the thought of a dirty forest with trees, briars, and wild animals. |
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| Fire exclusion has diminished natural pine reproduction as more fire-sensitive hardwoods, vines, briars, and forbs invade the understory. |
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| Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex, briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels. |
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| Swatting at mosquitoes and deer flies, the five picked their way through the Florida scrub, trying to avoid the briars and sawgrass sharp as a sword blade. |
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| He looked down and saw a leg sticking up out of heavy briars. |
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| Along the river, however, were impenetrable thickets of briars, brambles and blackjack scrub oak. |
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| Conditions were heinous, the largely off-trail section proving unrideable due to dense forest, boggy peat, streams, briars, bushes and steep gradients. |
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| The songs on the Ethan Johns-produced follow-up I Speak Because I Can likewise had the stark, thorny simplicity of overgrown briars, though her talent seemed to be growing with the predatory speed of briars, too. |
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| Disappointed in more ways than he could count, drunk but not pleasantly so, both legs asleep all the way up to his hipbones, Jack climbed through the briars and set out. |
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| Dropping into the field on the other side, they made their way across the scrub, through grass and briars and wild saplings, Colman in front, the boy behind, almost running to keep up. |
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| Vineyards will grow instead of thorns and briars. |
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| She followed the dry runlet to where a jutting shoulder formed a nook matted with briars. |
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| There remain juicy sloes and dark-red haws on leafless bushes, all mixed with briars, brambles, ivy, faded bracken and new fronds of polypody ferns. |
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| This behaviour of briars would have been very familiar to medieval people who worked on the land. |
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