And this basket, those nearest her could see, held nothing else than a mass of wild roses, all with the thorns carefully removed from the stems, and set in a bed of moss and sweetbrier leaves.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
The cool air of the twilight was scented with sweetbrier.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
"Hollyhocks and foxgloves and pinies-I shall never say peony in Brookville-and pansies, sweet williams, lads' love, iris and sweetbrier.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley