Refine Search

LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIME.*

... that the author of Robinson Crusoe was one of the most pitiful scoundrels of a time when spies and traitors were like blackberries. The present strike of the London masons, however much to be deplored, is not, at any rate, so unjustifiable as that of ...

LONDON IN THE THE JACOBITE TIMES

... that the author of Robinson Crusoe was one of the most pitiful scoundrels of a time when spies and traitors were like blackberries. The present strike of the London masons, however much to be deplored, is not, at any rate, so unjustifiable as that of ...

LITERATURE

... , seek for blackberries, and collected no small store. Oliver, stretching upward to a branch beyond Janey's reach, paused suddenly to laugh and to ask, as he turned the ripe branch towards her, Janey, do you recollect those blackberries? Oh yes ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds ,us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

NEW LOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

THE CATO DRAMATIC CLUB

... he possessed the istinet of an actor, but requires a world of study to make what tatlenIt he has avail- able. Mr James as Blackberry had that limp, creeping, dis- jointed, hroken-backed style which so many amateurs adopt when they play comic countrymseet ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHIONS

... unbecoming, tilted over the eyebrows, so that the wearer can see nothing above her boot tips, and trimmed with cherries or blackberries hanging feebly downwards, or, worse still, woollen lumps which resemble nothing in nature. A becoming hat or bonnet of ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1389 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE AMATEUR POACHER

... greengrocers and retailed at a high price. Later the blackberries ripen and form his third great crop; the quantity he brings in to the towns is astonishing, and still there is always a customer. The blackberry harvest lasts for several weeks, as the berries ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... as well as Raphael Mendoza himself could have done it. There once was a time when heroes of this sort were as common as blackberries, but of late years they have all but disappeared, possibly in consequence of the disuse of wet towels. At any rate it is ...

P UOVINCIAL THEATRIC

... Grace Crete is seen to minch advantacge. AMISS Bicrsford is natiumal ats Eleaisor DesborougLs, cud Altos H. El.Its as I etty Blackberry is iii great favour, anid aets the part admirably. 'The short comedy TAtc LHeart of' a Soeldiesr precedes Cthe dramtsa each ...

Published: Sunday 03 August 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 10916 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... shooting an enchanted duck; also the suflerings of one Shake, a serving man to Count Sombresido. Shake has eaten a charmed blackberry, aind becomes the possessor of a charm which gives to anyone their wish upon their ?? hi face at the moment of wishing. ...

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

... spectators. On her departure with her realistic blood tae scene changes to the Goblin Gorge, the depository of the enchanted blackberry. A certain Shake (Mr. H. Monkhouse) chances to pluck this cerry, thus removing the charni, alnid these the Prince Geiierous ...