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MODERN MURDER

... higher orders, with an exemplary Sovereign at their head, no longer make rank a cloak for profligacy. Saints are thick as blackberries, and morality is at a premium. But in the midst of all this advancement, while even the arts and sciences are rearing their ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1540 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THEATRES, ETC

... and we saw two or three rather stalwart persons carried away in a fainting state. Coats torn to shreds were plentiful as blackberries, and screams as frequent as the chirp of linnets in sunshine. Nevertheless the crowd bore all with exemplary| patience ...

Published: Sunday 13 May 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6496 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

CRICKET

... CRlCKaTt e G AT BELVOa R.-The annual match for 5 sovT, given by Lord John Manners,ocane off on Monday and Tuesday last, on Blackberry Hill. The neather being extremely tine, there was a mnch larger assemblage of admirers of the game than on any former occasion ...

Published: Sunday 17 June 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4345 | Page: 5 | Tags: Sports and Games 

OUR GOODWOOD GATHERINGS

... the top round of the ladder- to-day, and at the bottom to-morrow-rumours of trials and failures have been as plentiful as blackberries-and now, at the eleventh hour, people are just about as wise as ever, and the betting is comparatively-at a stand still;- ...

Published: Sunday 29 July 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3871 | Page: 3 | Tags: Sports and Games 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... Lady in Qaestion, in which Mir Stanley shone most con- spicuously, and met with unbounded applause, Bilberry, Mr Stoyle; Blackberry, Mr Wellsted; the Lady, Mrs Nunn; and Mrs Bilberry, Miss Gordon, were played in avery delightful, fascinating, and pleasing ...

Published: Sunday 30 September 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3320 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LOCAL JUSTICE

... own, and that freely, and when they do get it, the dose does them a power of good. As for subjects, they lie thick as blackberries upon the local papers, albeit not quite so distinctly to be seen at first sight. Let us look to the latest doings of ...

Published: Sunday 11 November 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1417 | Page: 10 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

TRADE AND OPINIONS AT MANCHESTER

... exceeding in money amount that of many princes in some foreign states ! Cases like this, in substance, are as plentiful as blackberries, the narration of which will, most assuredly, astonish, if not instruct the stand- still nooodies, whose fetter - bound ...

Published: Sunday 11 November 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1977 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

OUR CARPET BAG

... with the assistance of two large soup tureens, the numerous dishes were all displayed. We had, among other luxuries, fresh blackberries and bon-bons, the latter were rather dry, and had no doubt- travelled far. Each man had a tbree-pronged iron fork, and- ...

Published: Sunday 25 November 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1407 | Page: 10 | Tags: News