Her dress, bedraggled and wet, was torn in several places by the briery bushes she had passed; her hair, loosened from its confinement, hung down her back, while her face was so white and ghastly that Madam Conway in much alarm followed her up the stairs, asking what had happened.
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes
Over in a sheltered spot behind the vault clambered a huge, overgrown, briery rose, and by some sweet impatience of nature one shoot had budded before its time.
"A Woman Named Smith"
Marie Conway Oemler
I knew of a plantation of his, briery Bank, only a few miles distant from Magnolia and reputed to be very rich in its incomings.
"Daisy in the Field"
Elizabeth Wetherell