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... been conferred upon him. That honour had become as common as knighthood, and appeared to be given away as children gave blackberries. In most cases it occasioned a falling off in the income of the recipient, sometimes for a time, too often for ever. He ...
... , 50,0001., and 40,000/. had been expended; and they all knew that elections costing 5000/. to 10,0001. were plenty as blackberries (laughter). Now he (Mr. Bell) had had the pleasing excitement of a contest, was returned, and enjoyed the luxury of a petition ...
... t l h es e ; sl a a n te d a beautiful o em gw bra efr c , ing in . example of rustic nature, by Collins, entitled, The Blackberry eatherers. ...
... petticoat 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 ...
... believed that Mr. W. F. Hume will be one of the successful candidates. WATERFORD ClTY.—Candidates continue to spring up like blackberries in the ancient city of Waterford. The last announced is not the least remarkable of the list, which now numbers ten, and ...
... testatrix had property, and could well afford to have a professional adviser. Such advisers of her own Church are plenty as blackberries even in the town of Kingstown. In the teeth, then, of what we are told is the rule of the Roman Catholic Church, we find ...
... and West Indies stations. MURDER AT SHEFFIELD. —On Friday evening about half-past seven two children, who were gathering blackberries in a hedge-bottom at Eastbank, about a mile and a half to the south-east of Sheffield, discovered the dead body of a man ...
... Paris. It appears, indeed, that for such impartiality of vigour there are reasons, as with Falstaff, as ' plentiful as blackberries.' The violation of the rights of England by French fishermen is in that quarter at once more flagrant, more enormous, more ...
... prosecution, that on Friday, the 3d of September last, as two little boys, named George Renton and George Dicon, were gathering blackberries, about seven o'clock at night, in a field called. Appleyard'sfield, they found a man laid partly on his face in the hedgebottom ...
... OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. REPRESENTATION OF TRALEE. Candidates for Tralee are becoming as thick as blackberries. Mr. John Macnamara Cantwell has addressed the electors. The mere rumour that Mr. John Sadleir had intended to offer . ...
... could up to this time knock down with a feather. In troublesome times, when murders in this country were plentiful as blackberries, I recollect at night once crossing a pass through a mountain. Our party was suddenly brought to a halt by the guide, ...
... rental was 2882/. It fetched 73,485/., equal to 29 years' purchase. Two years ago, when estates were knocked down like blackberries, this property would not have brought anything like one half what it produced yesterday. The Queen has commissioned Mr ...