... indeed in elections to honorary membership, while in some other literary societies honorary members are as plentiful as blackberries. During the thirty-six years of its existence, for, with the exception of the Literary and Philosophical Society, the ...

... are the several parties, and sections of parties, still at sixes and sevens. Candidates would seem to be as plenty as blackberries, could we believe half of what is bruited abroad every day. But still is there no candidate actually accredited yet, by ...

... boy.) So, say—Ta, ta. Come, come ; you're not a dunce ! This farthing take---don't spend it all at once. The third scene—a blackberry brake—is exceedingly beautiful and most appropriate for the action of the corps de ballet, who were very much applauded ...

... performance the more acceptable,. if not more astonishing than the ordinary role. Card tricks and gun tricks, are as common as blackberries in autumn ;. but he dbes one pistol trick that's as good as a dozen gu n tricks; and it is rather lucky for him he did ...

... seem an instrument convenient enough when inserted into a saucer or syrup, or applied to the broken surface of an over-ripe blackberry, but we often see our sipper of sweets quite as busy on a solid lump of sugar, which we shall find on close inspection growing ...