... Reminding of its Mandrake root.' But most of all were we struck with the large size, broad leaves, and rose-like bloom of the blackberry bushes. To Montgomery, who was always glad to turn to scriptural subjects, the sight of a magnificent rubus recalled Jotbam's ...

... him. But, whether like the wild Indian of the prairie, Jack pined for the unrestrained freedom of his native woods—the blackberries and the roasted sloes; or, what is more likely, feared for his many ungrateful doings, after a brief trial, he ran away ...

... spring up out of emotional excitement. Fancies of all sorts, but chiefly . of the wilder sort, will appear plentifully as blackberries on an unfilled common. The products of grace, as well as those of nature, need to be kept well weeded and trained, or they ...

... when the other , man found that he could not get paid without procuring some information, evidence became as plentiful as blackberries. The first thing which he reported was this—he took from his pocket a small piece of card containing the significant words ...

... his sister and two other boys lie in a precarious state through eating the root of a poisonous plant. They had been out blackberrying in the outskirts of Liverpool. A manufacturer of Holmfirth, the other day, dropped his pocket-book containing two cheques ...

... and pear trees, laden with fruit, festoons of wild vines bending under the weight of their grapes, shrubs of barberry, blackberry. and dog ruse; in short, everything seeing to be assembled here, to do homage to the king of the forest, the lofty pine ...

... vicinity of one of the tallest of the Berkshire range of mountains. The hill 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 station in high spirits, and in ...

... are disappointed. Gold-digging does not suit them, and they have no trade to turn to. Clerks and shopmen are plentiful as blackberries in autumn. But for any one with the knowledge of some trade—or a little capital and enterprisewhose prospects are gloomy ...

... patriarchal trees, or nestle all day in a rock-hewn seat oferhanging the cool sea; or gather, with boyish glee, the first ripe blackberries from the hedge-side. All who can escape from the oar of business do; the rest console themselves by reading (strange law ...

... Norwich, when he stated that he hail stood openly in the market-place, and bought them up with the money in his hand, like blackberries [loud laughter)—that this system was acted upon at every contested elect' . gothing but poverty of purse makes purity of ...

... heretics at home, he Is weeping to do the same blessed thing in a land where heretics comparatively are as plentiful as blackberries [hear, hear]. It is very evident that he has some vigorous spirits about him, urged on, it may be, by a pure seal, who ...