... masterpiece of Vauban—is not work wbich should make Englishmen tremble for the future. France may construct forts as plentiful blackberries along its coasts; but there is great truth in some familiar lines about Britannia needing no bulwarks, and “no towers along ...

... Marlin will command a paddle-steam frigate squadron in lieu of the screw two-deckcr Nile; but such rumour* are plentiful as blackberries. Portsmouth and the suburbs are filling fast with fashionable visitors, the relatives and friends of the officers of the ...

... cherry «nd year trees, laden with fruit, festoons of wild vines bending under the weight of their grapes, shrubs of barberry, blackberry, •nd dog-rose; in short, everything seems to be assembled here to do homage to the king of the forest, the lofty pine, which ...

... shockingly mangled, in a':hedge-bottom, at East bank, near Sheffield. The discovery was made two children who were gathering blackberries. It appeared, from subsequent investigation, that deceased had been robbed of money, a silver watch, and pack of drapery ...

... which are known, but also the richest fruits, such the apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, Ac.—namely, that no fossils plants belonging this family have ever been discovered geologists! This be regarded as conclusive ...

... of one of the tallest the Berkshire range of mountains. The hill was said to be covered with countless bushels of ripe blackberries, and all of the high bush variety, which are the largest and the sweetest. They left the stHtion in high spirits, and in ...

... it would fake several shiploads o! University phenomena to moke half a Disraeli. Gladstones have alvays been plentiful blackberries in England; and thev will continue to he, till Macaulay’s photographic New Zealander daguerreotypes what may loft of St ...

... mormurless school, in o leafy retreat. The wild binds sit listening the drops round them beat And the buy croaches close 10 the blackberry wall The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting the tree-sheltered labourers, sing. Like pebbles the ...

... blossomed whins, lang yellow broom,” somewhat literally interspersed with specimens of the real Irish vine, vulgarly called blackberry bushes, extending around almost every arable field, varying in breadth, according to the taste of the owner, from one yard ...

... all for Mrs Skiddy. You see it's just here are. Master has been threatuin for long lime to Californy, where the plenty blackberries. Well, raisthrcaa tould him ever he said the like o' that again, he'd rue it; and you know, ms'am. it's she that ha* a ...

... morning mist and evening haze, unlike the cold, grey rime, Seem'd woven wave* of golden air, when 1 was in my prime. And blackberries, mawkish now. were finely flavoured then, And hazel nuts, such clusters thick 1 ne'er shall pluck again. Nor strawb'ries ...

... London, and not know how such situations ore obtained. “Oh we’ve got plenty of governesses ulieady in London—thick as blackberries. Can you nothing else besides governeaaing?” May bethought her of milking cows, making cheese, aud feeding poultry, but ...