... elegant phrase. We do not wish to weary our readers with any more of these races of diction ; but they are as plenty as blackberries in the poem. Not less common are lines totally destitute of metre ; e.g. : But followed by long black shadow flickering ...

... house. Fools grow without watering, the proverb says. It is commonly assumed, indeed, that fools are as plentiful as blackberries ; but he must be a fool who thinks so ; for the term fool has become the synonym for an honest man. The fact is that ...

... hundreds of acres of thriving plan- tations, Interspersed with considerable tracts of underwood where game is as abundant as blackberries. Partridges are the most abundant, for they are but seldom disturbed, and continue to procreate amid the wild recess of ...

... come back, if it were only for the purposes of sale, into our pockets. Simple, sanguine Mr. LABOIICMERE ! MOSESS swop of Blackberry and the colt for the gross of green spectacles was an astute deal compared to your bargain about the coasting trade, the ...

... which he would refer. It seemed to him an important question. as they were getting steamengines around them as thick as blackberries, who was to repair them if they got nut of order ? Hear.; A new era had arrived, and country blaektoniths must become a ...