sweetbrier
IPA: swˈitbriɝ
noun
- A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
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Examples of "sweetbrier" in Sentences
- The cool air of the twilight was scented with sweetbrier.
- I've not seen the name of the rose spelled any way but sweetbrier.
- The scent of pink clover mingled with the odor of grasses and the delicate perfume of sweetbrier.
- A little sweetbrier rose fell out from the white lace about her face, against the soft brown of her hair.
- His wife led the way up a little winding path, which, after threading some thickets of sweetbrier and honeysuckle, conducted to the back-door of a small garden.
- For the rest, a bit of honeysuckle was trained up one side of the porch, and at the small wooden gate there were two bushes of sweetbrier that filled the warm air with fragrance.
- Not the pale and ghastly creature who had haunted him during those wild hours, but Sheila herself, singing some snatches of a song, and engaged in watering the two bushes of sweetbrier at the gate.
- In the little brown house with its overhanging cherry tree, which tapped the roof and scratched the attic window-panes, and with its sweetbrier under the window, the children lived a simple and happy life.
- Even now I can almost feel the daisies brushing against my feet, while walking up the narrow lane on our way to church, -- can see the sweetbrier by the red gate, and myself giving Rachel one of its blossoms.
- He showed the large stem of the sweetbrier under which they passed as they went into the house, such as Arnold had seen hanging over many a New-England porch, large enough for many initials to be carved upon it.
- There is an odor of sweetbrier about, hovering in the warm, still air, except at such times as the breeze freshens a bit, and brings round the shoulder of the hill the cold, strange scent of the rocks and the sea beyond.