... board-room, and sacrifice a good bargain for distinctions of creed in a province where creeds are almost “as plenty as blackberries.” His fancy calls up the chance of an accident. A collision takes place ; engines and carriages are smashed and splintered ...

... the purpose of rearing pigs! Should the root come to a prosperous maturity, potatoes, in good sooth, will be plenty as blackberries about the middle of July ! ...

... , his mother’s own boy, the hope of the family”—going on an excursion to country fair, where he sells the family horse, Blackberry, to one swindler, and is presently taken in by another, who pawns upon him, for the price of the animal, the four gross ...

... where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride.” The subject has been often treated, and views of Venice are common as blackberries. They are, however, for the most part, mere portraits, if we may so speak of detached parts of the renowned Queen of the ...

... acts of the (Loud applause.) cabinet, and “ village Hampdens” are as plentiful The triumphal arch which the address and blackberries. To the circumstance that so great answer were delivered was a beautiful construction. a number of the most influential ...

... obscurity, unpitied and uncared for. The Hero of a Hundred Fights, it is true, has lived to see statues around him plentiful as blackberries, but this is the exception to the rule. For how many years did Old Time roll on before justice was done to the immortal ...