... promised; they first corrupted the electors and then cheated them. The eases of bribery proved are almost as plenty as blackberries, and the very fact that the price of votes was so low will at once suggest the great extent of venality which must have ...

... many now in good practice must remember the advantage they derived in junior days, when briefs were not as thick as blackberries, from sitting in court and hearing others plead. Some of the greatest lawyers have begun their career with no greater ...

... up to this period, have knocked down with a feather. In troublesome times, when murders in this country were plenty as blackberries, I recollect at night once crossing a pass through a mountain, in a disturbed district ; our party was suddenly brought ...

... company hadbeen transported bodily to Covent-garden, theatres certainly could not easily fall lower. Reasons, plenty as blackberries, are given for the absence of talent to supply that which was largely retiring from the stage. The actors, when examined ...

... Independent of the principle upon which it is admitted that it never rains but it pours, there are more reasons than blackberries just now for the present week being prolific of sport. However, as people will most probably be satisfied with the effects ...

... action, and a treat it was, I car tell you, for a man living on the Continent, where fine horses are not as plentif as blackberries. in the count's drawing-room were some capital prints front Landseer, and a paintin g b y a nat i ve artist of his hailers ...

... for trial. I am informed that on Thursday night last, about 11 o'clock, a number of men, having their faces smeared with blackberries, went to the public-house called the Towy Castle, at Llandefelog, about six miles from Carmarthen, and demanded to see ...

... ad.' Vel I did so, and he couldn't find the Mr. Smith he vanterl there, though Smiths your honour were as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. From Tottenham-court-road I drives the gemman to Stretton-ground, Vestminster, from there to the-Doverroad, ...

... strawberries, quite ripe, have been gathered on Stoke Hill, and other places the neighbourhood of Exeter. On Christmas-day blackberries in fine blossom, also some just set, green, red, and perfectly ripe, were gathered on Stoke Hill, by Mr. W. Grant and Mr ...

... even so, there is not the slightest doubt in the world that doubloons would soon become as plentiful at Rio Janeiro as blackberries in England. With respect to the second point, namely, the final suppression of the rebellion in Rio Grande, we fervently ...

... ons of the ring, since Robert Brograve blew out his brains when Smolensko won the Derby—there were examples, plenty as blackberries, of those who had grown rich on the spoil of the thoughtless, won a thousand times more infamously than the highwayman's ...

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