Finaly Brad says (calm and cool) "She's lieing right there" (points to spot 10ft. from blood on road in briar thicket).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell me your funniest hunting stories.] Reference

Hips are preferred; at least, the fruit of the briar is the first of the two to disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round About a Great Estate] Reference

To me she seems pretty much below the radar, and seen to have been pushed into the background aka the briar patch.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Republicans take the House in 2010, a possible Obama pivot to center?] Reference

The empty briar is swishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is Not a Spade: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney] Reference

The sweet-briar is now in full blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rural Hours] Reference

Such an ethics thicket is exactly the kind of briar patch Republicans would love to be thrown into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"Spam detection software, running on the system 'briar', has identified this incoming email as possible spam" if the email is spam.    From Wordnik.com.  [townx - Comments] Reference

From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bucolics and Eclogues] Reference

For I have seen the briar through the winter snows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference

Not so: it is the briar-cock, the honor of our forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

Fitzhugh took out his briar and began filling it as he spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

There's clay pipes an 'briar pipes an' meerschaum pipes as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference

Close to the nest he dropped on a briar-leaf, like a floating petal.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

He stared at the bowl of his briar for a moment, then looked up at Cannon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hail to the Chief] Reference

The explorer was puffing at his briar luxuriously, and turned to the doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference

I now find it is almost certainly the plant from which our briar pipes are made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

Only last night, I dreamed that seven spotted cats were chasing me through a briar patch!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin] Reference

De Yankees sho 'throwed us in de briar patch but us not bred and born dere lak de rabbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference

Then she skipped here and there through the briar patch till she came out on the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends] Reference

Elshawe took his heavy briar out of his mouth as Winstein sat down on the corner of the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Proxy] Reference

Near the mantel was a pipe-rack filled with fine specimens of briar-wood and meerschaum pipes.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference

On, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference

"Oh, then," returned Kiddie, withdrawing his hand and producing a briar, "this ain't yours that I found?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie the Scout] Reference

The new challengers would definitely respond, in the words of Brer Rabbit, "Don't throw me in the briar patch!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Dowd: Votes of Passion] Reference

A sensitive plant, or as Judith herself would have said, a "shame briar," caught at her skirts as she hastened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

The honeysuckle and the sweet briar crept up its walls; the wren and the phoebe bird built under its eaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five] Reference

On they pushed, their hands locked through all hazards of brake or briar: neither would let go for a whole world, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

The trail from above ended in a briar tangle fifty feet up the hill from the ledge on which four of the five outlaws slept.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference