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... ktoll- n The centre of a wviininmg brood B Brown as the hazels whichI they steal,- A Gipsy Beautty stood. B. Blacker than blackberries her eyes, is And still not blacker than her hair, I W'hich lolled il lazy flakes upon it Her olive shoulders bare. 3e I ...

Published: Monday 17 November 1851
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1500 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... are known, but also the ti richest finite, such as the applo, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cc cherry, strawberry, raspberry blackberry, &e.,- namely, that no m( fossils of plants bolong-ing to this fsunily have over hoen die- me covered by geologists! islu ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1851
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3654 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LEITH TOWN-COUNCIL AND THE DOCK COMMISSION

... his claim as being the rightful owner. This rather made the matter more compli- cated, as Smith is a name as plentiful as blackberries, and let one choose his parish, there would be plenty of pretenders to eke prize. After all the idle speculation, the winner ...

Published: Monday 29 December 1851
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3312 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

England

... black lace, grey ribbons, aod white bugles. The petti- coat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white rib- of blackberries and diamonds. bons. Her Majesty wore round ber head a wreath composed The diplomatic and general circles were very fally ...

Published: Monday 26 April 1852
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4586 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

LEGAL PREFERMENT THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR

... the Whigs are notoriously lucky; and when they are in office, pieces of preferment are sure to fall in as plentifully as blackberries. ‘There is not a single ex-Attorney or ex-Solicitor-General of theirs unprovided for; but poor Sir Frederick Thesiger and ...

Published: Thursday 10 February 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE SECRETS OF SIBERIA

... Prince. Princes are of small account in Russia, and still less in Siberia, where they are, as Shakspere would say, plenty as blackberries. Prince Dolgorakoff is a specimen of the tribe, and, for refinement of perception, deserves to rank with Sergeant Philimonoff's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4611 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE CRIMEA

... t a moment's notice by machinery. Come wheimee they may, they dlo come, never cease coining, and are as plentiful as blackberrie. Napoleon is certainly in earnest ini this war, and I wish our Cabinet would follow suit and II better the example. It ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2811 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... ground till the principal races were over. Divisional Gencrals, Brigadiers, Colonels, and stall officers, were plenty its blackberries, and, though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs Seacole, who presided over a sorely invested tent fall of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5125 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

ORIGIN OF THE PLOT OF GUY MANNERING

... costume has strikingly supported this view.- Critic. MMlUnORIES oF Bo11iiooc-Tho crowning joys were b huttercupping and blackberrying. As soon as the spring warmth brought forth the golden dandolions, and gave a now greenness to the grass in Stcpney churchyard ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1855
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1554 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... discussion on the rela- tive merits of Horsecy, Finchley, Wanstead, Epping, and Woodford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gather. ing. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with us in our bags, though many ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... yearly emerge on the crowded arena of therapeutics, where it has of late become a proverb that 31.ID.'s are as plenty as blackberries; more so, it might almost be said, since numbers of the former arc to be found, where the latter only sparsely glow-viz ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3603 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GAINSBOROUGH THE PAINTER

... whether like the wild Indaian of the prairie, Jackc pined 'for the unrestrain- ed freedom of liahis ative woods - the blackberries and the-roasted'sloes;' or, what is more likely, feared chastisement for his many ungrateful doings, after a brief trial ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3612 | Page: 2 | Tags: News