O bury me by the braken bush, Beneath the blooming brier; Let never living mortal ken That ere a kindly Scot lies here.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
So he clung to the inn; taking a morning dip in the river; strolling about, with his brier pipe in his mouth and his hands in his pockets, exchanging a word with this man and the other, and bestowing his odd change on any children he happened to meet.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
Then and there the gentleman told the boys they should each have a garden of their own, and he pointed to the piece of ground by the Sweet-brier, and made the gardener divide it into two equal portions.
"Lady Daisy and Other Stories"
Caroline Stewart