briony

Definitions

Examples

• When romancing the dewy Briony, the cosmopolitan New Yorker Andrew sounds like the creepy European Humbert Humbert.

• The claspers of briony shoot into the spiral, and lay hold of whatever comes in their way, for support.

• To-day there was neither gravedigger nor robin—only the soft drip, drip of the rain on dock and thistle, fern and briony.

• In its perfect state, it feeds on the blossom of the briony.

• All which like other impostures once discovered is easily effected, and in the root of white Briony may be practised every spring.

• I got a blow on the head in a saw mill on Briony Creek and it made me just as useless as a bit of pith.