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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Copses of beech and alder appeared, straggling along the banks with their roots lost in a tangle of briars and bracken.
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Feel briar and thorn snag heel and heart and soul, but never think that hiding is the end of it.
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He was working in a thicket of briar , elder and dead wood from a fallen tree.
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Hedgerow briars are best left for walking sticks.
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Over the years, a prickly briar hedge grew up along the castle, which no one could penetrate.
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The woods are a tangle of briars, fallen trees, and brush.
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When he approached the briar hedge, it melted away and be-came a flowering path.