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REMINISCENCES OF AULD LANGSYNE

... When somewhere between ten and twelve years of age, 1 and a few companions had gone to wood at some distance, to gather black-berries. had two little girls in our train, and were returning through the hamlet of which I have just spoken, when David Morton ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1822
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4189 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

( _Cnglanti

... _fowling-piece at a girl _sixteen years _old , who liad stepped from her _father ' s _garden into a plantation to gather _blackberries . Several _shots _entered into _the poor _girl's _liotly , _THE LAST OF THE REBECCAS . _—Henry _Rvaiis , _committed to ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1846
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7002 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

fiteraturc. Noncom or BOOXS

... refuge under the wing of the nonplussed Falstall— No, I'll not give reasons on compulsion though they were as plenty as blackberries. But let us open the volume and proceed at once to business. Lord Robertson has again rushed into poetical print, and ...

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE

... the valley to visit the village, which I n quitted by emending the bill on the right, through long hollow lanes„ rich in blackberries and ivy, 'and over which aged trees shoot out their gnarled branches, roeghly bearded with moos. The hill-top I found occupied ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1846
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5336 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

REMINISCENCES OF ACLD LANGSYNE

... to his quarters, where they would regaled with bowl of punch, competent to drown all their cares, were they numerous as blackberries in the wood (jlentanncr, and so capacious, that grenadier might swim in it, sword in hand, without either touching side ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1823
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6744 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

ABSTRACT OF SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF WESLEY

... horse at some brambles, to pick the fruit. ' Brother Nelson,' said he, ' we ought to be thankful that there arc plenty of blackberries, for this is the best country I ever saw for getting stomach, but the worst that ever I saw for getting food. Do the people ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1820
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7106 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

AWFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD

... be seen flowers broken and beaten to the ground-pease torn fmn the sticks wshich upheld themn-goosejerriecr rants, and blackberries rilipted~.rrom their stalks, and strewi. ed around their respective bushes-fruit trees shakcen as itt autun oo~ald many ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1829
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5322 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... at large. In a fourth session, then, patriots increase in untold numbers in the House of Commons. They are as thick as blackberries on a hedge. The wishes of the people are taken into consideration. Ministers are snubbed and thwarted by the very drudges ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1844
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7818 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

WEEDS AND FLOWERS

... wild beehummed, loadingher hairy thighs- Between these and the mansionhouse waved venerable woods, beneath whose shade the blackberry ripened, in size and luxuriance far beyond what it attains on the open and unsheltered heath ; they were just coming in ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1823
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8756 | Page: 66 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... repeatedly pressed by arguments against it. 1 He e woutd give no reason on conspulsion', thougha reasons were as thick as blackberries. Though he (Mrl Hobbouse) knew the a ~folly of contending wi'th the master of 20 legions or the coin- osander of a majority ...

Published: Monday 17 July 1820
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7550 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

.RY 28, 1844

... committed in the year 1832. The witness was then a boy about twelve years of age, and was with others in the field gathering blackberries., when he ob. served four men, whom lie knew, run across the field towards the high road. They were armed. Shortly after ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1844
Newspaper: Witness (Edinburgh)
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10828 | Page: 3 | Tags: none