... instead of poverty would now have been the state of that Company; but instead of this, branches as numerous almost as blackberries on a bush, were pushed out into barren districts (as if to embrace all the land in the district, not caring what the population ...

... British Preference. The Samuel Douglass Testimonial. Testimonials are in these days of railway commotion as numerous as blackberries on a bush. It is quite right to testify to a man's merits. We say nothing against the prin.. ciple of the thing properly ...

... less than one-half the amount paid for it. Anecdotes, not perhaps exactly of this stamp, but of a kindred, are as thick as blackberries in autumn. Mr. Stephenson proposes a substitute for par;iamentary legislation, of which we may say more hereafter. A worse ...

... No doubt Mr. Brunel could give his reasons for this, because at all times that gentleman's reasons were as plentiful as blackberries( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Considerable discussion took place upon the charge for working the line. The CHAIRMAN said ...

... enable the public to form their opinion. These voluminous documents, containing yard long arguments and facts as numerous as blackberries on a bush, are little better than waste paper. They bewilder the clearest intellects, and mistify the plainest facts, for ...

... and partly to replenish their coffers for the next five years. Really the number of borrowers are becoming as numerous as blackberries in autumn but much less pleasant. The imports of t union, &c., since this day week in excess of the shipments amount to ...