... attendance; and the proprie- tors of tables on which the mysteries of trick 0’ the loop were illustrated were as plentiful as blackberries. One en- terprising individual had a pavilion erected on the ground, on the stage in front of which men and women attired ...

... confidence subsisting between landlord and tenant, all because of Protection— that Special Commissions were plenty as blackberries in that Golden Age of Arcadian happiness! We tell you, farmers, that these men are deluding you, or trying to delude you ...

... people have as many advisers as Job, or the hare with many friends; as for “ speaking out,” stump orators are as thick as blackberries, in Parlia- ment and out of it. No man (still less any woman) believes be can’t speak ; and the number who won’t are i ...

... masterpiece of Vauban, not work which 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 ...

... way through the forest of disabilities they found grown up around them, will be stopped such black- berry bushes as these. Blackberry bushes did say? The will walk over them like daisies—(laughter and cheers), Aye! to put up the Higgins’ faction before you ...

... afull consciousness of his love of distinction.— My notion is that the public man who does not possess it is not value for a blackberry. For a matter-of fact-man like Mr. Fagan, there is one portion of h is letter profoundly enigmatical. He says he is going ...

... southern Africa—away in the distant native re- gions of the Caffre and the Hottentot,—bottles of Bass, are as plentiful as blackberries, and settlers at the Cape toast the old country in beverage from the same brewing as The mariner—the their cousins are ...

... (cries of no, no) ? Mr. O'Flyn—l object (oh, and laughter). Mr. Gregg—As far as am personally concerned, I don't care a blackberry how it goes. was finally agreed to refer the question bnck to the law and finance committee, excluding the four solicitors ...

... example is afforded by the Woodman Public-house —in past days a well-known rural retreat to Londoners who went Maying, or blackberrying, or picknicking to Nor- wood, but which néw finds itself almost next door to the Crystal Palace; a year or two ago, at ...

... ground till the principal races were over The divisonal generals, brigadiers, colonels, and staff-officers, were plentiful blackberries, and though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs. Seacole, who presided over a sorely invested tent full of ...