... Many great lords of the cr es : tion, matrons looking unutterable things, simpering and ready made fools, thick as blackberries, for around, eager to witness the making of the amorous couple one, became impatient of the happy event's taking place; ...

... committed in the year 1832. The witness was then a boy about 12 years of age, and was with others in the field gathering blackberries, when he observed four men, whom he knew, and whose naives, I understand, he mentions, run across the fields towards the ...

... scene continues to be very -pleasant, but the trees on the rocks became gradually fewer and less verdant. The cran and black-berries give place to the heather, and the view opens up of the wild glen between Locknagar and Bullock Bowie. The royal party ...

... can entertain any doubt of his success. Bills and placards around the Guilhall are as thick, to use a common phrase, as blackberries. We cannot refrain from selecting the following from amongst them:— Livery of London—Who is it that now stands forward ...

... Lately as Mr. JOHN HANDFORD, of St. Thomas, cabinet-maker, was on his way from Christow to Canonteign, while gathering blackberries from a hedge, he was bitten in the finger by a viper. The hand and arm soon became much swollen ; but, by surgical skill ...

... deprisoner was well known as a herb collector, and in the dared she would tell. One of the prisoners, I cannot say autumn sold blackberries. He had a basket of that fruit in which, then said, If that's the case, we won't give you the his possession when he was ...

... in the woods and copses which deck that most picturesque of all the southern counties of England. A plentiful supply of blackberries, with which the hedge rows abounded, delighted the palates of the strollers ; and present appetite having been allayed ...

... word. Reasons he does not give ; and, of course, would not give them upon compulsion, though they were as plenty as blackberries; but his assertions as to matters of fact are abundant, and he throws them about with as much reckless pertinacity as ...

... be at first imagined. Ask any one you meet to name you a good hustings grievance; he will tell you they are as plenty as blackberries. There are the army, and the navy, and the national debt, and church and state, all National grievances in their way. So ...

... description—it is likewise the case with fruit, from the finest cherries, which we have had now on the table for six weeks, to blackberries; immense quantities are exposed daily in our market. Beans and cucumbers are very fine, and sold at moderate prices. The ...

... t in . th brook, sl t.ais sister n a t o sit o l : . ;:t i l i c a l h e r she had fallen in the attempt to I reac some blackberries that hung over it.—Cartibrian. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Revenue accounts, made up to the 10th of October, will ...

... parties ; and there is little doubt but that eventually Pines will become, as the common phrase goes, almost as plentiful as blackberries. Now the more plentiful food of every description becomes, the nearer we shall approximate to the practical development ...