... Geft'ers, and causing the getting together of a crowd of those amateurs of a row, who, it is weU known, are as plenty blackberries in this metropolis at all times. Mr. Geffers, who said he was a solicitor in Ireland, and being in town'upon professional ...

... gentleman, apropos of anchovy sauce, remarked that he had seen the anchovy growing wild, as thick and almost as large as blackberries ; upon the suggestion that the anchovy was not of the vegetable kingdom, he fired up, and asked whether his word were doubted ...

... bodice of the same, with a berthe of lace and bouquet of blackberries : tunic shirt of silver-grey crape over a glace silk slip, trimmed en tablicr with bouffants of' the same, bouquets of blackberries, and neeuds I of satin ribbon. Headdress, feathers, black ...

... with black silk, and ornamented with a flounce of black lace; bodice of the same, with a berthe of lace and bouquets of blackberries ; tunic skirt of silver grey crape, over a glace silk slip, trimmed en tablier with bouflants of the same, bouquets of ...

... send letter a thousand miles for a penny, and bur week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays as fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on ninepenee halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

... never lack food, for what is so prolific as an Irishman's ideality? His ideas are like FALSTAFF'S reasons, plentiful as blackberries in summer. But, in sober sadness, is it not heart-sickening to hear Mr. SHAW, the member for the University of Dublin ...

... was but one system of education, and that was one of discipline; but now systems are like Faistaw's reasons—“as plenty blackberries.” Modem wisdom has d/scovesed that the passions youth do not want restraint orsorrectioß, but merely guidance; schoolmasters ...

... been influenced by the captious and plausible nature of the cheap-bread cry. He knows that Jack Cades are always plenty as blackberries ; and he might fear lest the people should at last give their adhesion to the pernicious doctrines, which the League are ...

... Philister ' Philister is one of those nntianslateable German- isms which, are as plentiful, but not half as palateable. as blackberries : the best translation that we can : offer is snob. The word has. however, a more expansive signification, which we ...

... were fptnp, with a view to Oregonize (query organise?) the subject matter in dispute, and broken heads became plentiful M blackberries. The terminal crosses were shifted backwards and forwards each night in succession, and the impounding of cattle threatened ...

... this dropped order. Neither the reason. nor indeed the compulsion, were last night forthcoming; if reasons were as plenty blackberries, the house and the public were favoured with none of them; nor do we find that the Burlkigh of her Majesty’s reign so much ...

... and the Bull- calves, and Malvolios (not to mention Calibans), there ap- pears to be no lack — they are plentiful as blackberries, yet they are by no means the right class of gentry to do ho- nour to the immortal memory of Shakspere. With the exception ...