briary

Facing that briary jungle on- the ground level was a little daunting.

There were berries, too, won from a briary thicket.

On the far side of the briary tangle, lodged in fallen leaves against another standing stone, Bubbles found her box.

For example, Cabernet Sauvignon grown on the mountain commonly shows "briary" flavors, moderate to bold tannins and herbal, floral aromatics.

Instead of the standard, featureless suburban lawn, one glimpsed a complicated jumble, if not jungle, of bushes and hedges; thorny, briary shapes that, in retrospect, can be seen as a self-portrait of his own state of mind.

His more recent paintings, which first had infrastructures of angular lines that resembled briary fences and then more relaxed, elegant tangles of thick, ropelike loops that uncoiled across radiant, still monochrome fields, don't occupy a class of their own.

Cadfael had not been back to see it with his own eyes, but with the inner eye he saw it very clearly, dark, rich soil soon to bring forth new life; green, moist turf and tangled briary headland under the ridge of bushes and trees.