... board-room, and sacrifice a good bargain for distinctions of creed in a province where creeds are almost “as plenty as blackberries.” His fancy calls up the chance of an accident. A collision takes place ; engines and carriages are smashed and splintered ...

... the purpose of rearing pigs! Should the root come to a prosperous maturity, potatoes, in good sooth, will be plenty as blackberries about the middle of July ! ...

... , his mother’s own boy, the hope of the family”—going on an excursion to country fair, where he sells the family horse, Blackberry, to one swindler, and is presently taken in by another, who pawns upon him, for the price of the animal, the four gross ...

... where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride.” The subject has been often treated, and views of Venice are common as blackberries. They are, however, for the most part, mere portraits, if we may so speak of detached parts of the renowned Queen of the ...

... acts of the (Loud applause.) cabinet, and “ village Hampdens” are as plentiful The triumphal arch which the address and blackberries. To the circumstance that so great answer were delivered was a beautiful construction. a number of the most influential ...

... obscurity, unpitied and uncared for. The Hero of a Hundred Fights, it is true, has lived to see statues around him plentiful as blackberries, but this is the exception to the rule. For how many years did Old Time roll on before justice was done to the immortal ...

... homoeopathy ; that dying people communicate sensations to others hundreds of miles away ; that ghosts are as plenty as blackberries ; that black cat is the associated symbol of death, when it walks over a bed ; that people read ‘with the soles of their ...

... the name. If versifiers were synonymous with poets, we should have the latter in abundance. They would be plentiful as blackberries fact which is abundantly testified by the intolerable quantity” of lines which every year ushers into existence. There ...

... letter a thousand miles for a penny, and buy a week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on nmepence halfpenny, a-day, and make artificial ...

... pattern is formed by a groundwork of ferns and beautiful grasses, from which spring trailing branches of the bramble or blackberry, gracefully wreathed with tendrils of the convolvus, prufusmy, but not heavily, decorated with tiowera. The whole of the ...

... Vatican not going for the Trial Stakes, and why he was entered was marvel, unless five-pound notes were as plentiful as blackberries, it was reduced to a match between the 6-yr-old Moor and the 2-yr-old ihe youngster getting 691 b. Seven came to the post ...

... Conservative agent and solicitor, Mr, 1. Alley Jones, advance new claims “ thick as hops, ana take objections as thick as blackberries,” and, with few exceptions, maintain the one and the other. We have, on the other hand, kept ©nr eve on Mr. James, agent ...