... Commons. Now that an election is imminent, and every day brings intelligence that legal candidates are as plenty as blackberries, it may not be out of place to inquire whether such a prejudice does exist, and whether any reasonable grounds can be ...

... they can reap a profit at the price of the cheapest markets of the world. Brutuses seem to be just now as plentiful a blackberries, and we may presume that, according to the favourite alliteration ofthe Tom Paixe school of fifty years ago, tyrants are ...

... of the history of the times in his own way. He will cuter into no disputation — none ! If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, he would not render one to any antagonist so superfluous as to demand it. The public must decide ; and if the public will ...

... in tbeir leafy retieat, Th,- wild birds sit listening the drops round them beat ; I.Vnd 11-e boy crouches close to the blackberry wall. The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting ?? labourers, sing-. Lik,; pebbles, ihe rain breaks ...

... limit our ideas of contamination, there will be no end to dispute — arguments and counter- arguments will be plentiful as blackberries, and the committee will do little more than elaborate ponder- ous blue books. Now, it does so happen, all Mr. Lewis Thompson's ...

... and au absence of defined meaning here. Natural price ! Why there is no such thing in the world, ex- cept in the case of blackberries, and scarcely even in their respect, strictly speaking. Corn, as it is brought into the market, is uot a natural produce ...

... when he stated that he . had stood openly in the market-place and bought them up Z with the money ia his hand, like blackberries-(loud laughter)-that this system was acted upon at every con- tested election Nothing but poverty of purse makes , puny ...

... coat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribbons. Her Majesty wore round her head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. The diplomatic circle was introduced, when the following presentations to her Majesty and his Royal Highness ...

... point for which we were bound was not utterly defenceless, and in a land where stock- ades seemed almost as * plenty as blackberries,' there ap- peared every chance of our falling in with one somewhere or other. This was not the only time that I was ' ...

... Co- lonies of Australia. Th«jre is now-a-days no keeping pace with the books upon that subject ; they are as plenty as blackberries, and devoured as quickly ; but the volume before us has been compiled with so much care, and the author himself has had ...

... degree of antidote • there was the satisfactory consideration that at all seasons ofthe year curates were as plentiful as blackberries. At length the grand-uncle, who had, very provokinffly lived on full three years after his nephew's ordination! obeyed ...

... historic cha- racter that we would commend the work to the notice of our readers; for, while novels are as plentiful as blackberries, and often not more pre- cious, histories, written by eye-witnesses of the events they record, and written, too, in a fresh ...