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THE CHOLERA

... the committee was required to make a return of the fighting men' in his district. Bullets were as plenty among them as blackberries, and committee-men showed one another their pocketsfull of ball-cartridges. Ginger-beer bottles, blacking-bottles, and ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1848
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1776 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

i At two o'clock the whole of the illitstrirstra party entered the picture gallery, where a grand collation was ..

... prevails. PIACI/CITY IN TWA PCLPIT.—At one time the stage was inundwed with boy actors; infant Roscimes were plentiful as blackberries ; little girls in trousers strutted ns tragedy queens; and little boys, scarcely emancipated from petticoats. raved as ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... Dundee Directors scooted this suggestion—their reasons I never beard—for, like Falstaff, although reasons were plentiful as blackberries with them, they would give no mao reason on compulsion. That they now find to their cost they committed a serious blunder ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1846
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2159 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AGRICULTURAL REPORT

... Spooner, living in Chester Place, in this town, received a severe bite from an adder on Sunday last. He had been to get blackberries, a nela near Little Eaton, and while gathering them his attention was drawn to something moving the bottom of tho hedge: ...

THE WEATHER AND CROPS,

... by the amazingly luxuriant vegetation all round Londoo, and the coutinued abundance of home-grown fruit, among which the blackberry is coming into daily use, probably owing to the late mention made of it iu the Lancashire papers, for it has seldom before ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1846
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2154 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

POLITICAL EXTBACTS

... Father Mathew’s labours have done more depress the sLe than the foreign import. Excellent claret is he made from the Irish blackberry, and none hut traitors will drink Lafiite. But it were endless to enumerate (he commodities with the importation of which ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1840
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2130 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ANTI-GAME LAW MEETING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

... The morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold gray rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air— When I was in prime. And blackberries—so mawkish now—- Were finely flavored then ; And nuts—and reddening clusters ripe I ne’er shall pull again. Kor strawberries ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1847
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2313 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE CORN LAWS

... in those latitudes, abounding with the nitrate of soda. This valuable commodity was represented to be as plentiful as blackberries. The ground, for miles, was described as being coated with it. Nothing was required, in short, but to take it op, and bring ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1846
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence. DR WoLve.—This energetic traveller has arrived at Southampton, and addressed a letter to ..

... of General Tom Thumb's recent visit to our Mores, one may reasonably conclude that dwarfs are ant quite so plentiful as blackberries; end yet, at Kisborn of Applecrosa in the county of Roo, there is • family of that gen., each of them be.% of less dimensions ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1845
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2511 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS. PERTH IN

... pine; M'lntosh,boxwood; Mackay.bullrush; M'Kenrie, deer-grass; M'Kinnon, St. John*s wort; M'Lachlan, mountain ash; M'Lean, blackberry heath; M'Leod, red wortlo berries; M'Nab, rose back berries; M'Neil, seaware; M'Pberson, variegated boxwood; MacQuarrie ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1847
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3298 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR MAK6ILL CRICHTON'S ADDRESS UPON THE PROPOSED TRANSFERENCE OF THE BURNTISLAND PIER AND FERRY TO THE RAILWAY ..

... gnss falsehood has not been committed. might go on to point other falsehoods in tbe article, for tbe lies are thick as blackberries, but i deem it work of supererogation, until a better defence is given to tbs first charge. (At this period, some hands ...

her own house, where, Indeed, Tc.nnot consider myself any thing more than a mere lodger, and a most exemplary Jerry

... enthusiasts of my pen to gasp, even for a moment, with the thirst of Tantalus, and have accordingly resolved, that neither blackberries one side of the road, nor hazel nuts on the other, shall have power to fascinate me from the direct line of march which ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1814
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2478 | Page: 4 | Tags: none