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... with the ground colour of the dress it is worn with. For rustic hats, bramble leaves, mixed with flowers and ripening blackberries, with knots of green velvet, form a suitable trimming. Bonnets are decreasing in size, and worn flatter on the bead, and ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1891
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3443 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

courage, resolve. and anticipation. Bona/enters saw the spark of hops that he had dropped into the boy's heart ..

... for the final overthrow in blesses aid rustling in the wares keeps ; are of all opponents of the enlightenment : • Roll- blackberries ripe ; morsiergiories ;Mork* lath road-Jedgraelen.' the trnmpet•flowet &rise from its dense •is They had s profouud and ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1887
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2840 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE LOST HEIRESS

... squirrels from the woods, young doves from the cush-birds’ ’’ nests, tamed owls and ravens, and gathered her the first black-berries from the neighbouring moorland, and hazelnuts from the woods, all because he loved Mistress Frances bravely.” the old wood ...

Published: Friday 14 August 1868
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3485 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AMERICA

... r ;„ . raspberries, grapes, blacktiien pl p ies. nuts, and crab-trees grow lu bnt, with the exception of t is oats am] blackberries, thoy are eery infeior to those wo have in Enolnud. The cherr not like tho English fruit : they grow i largor trees, and ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1870
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3242 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE PORTADOWN NEWS—SATURDAY. JUNE le, nig

... brings with it. I, for cos, dint ante to be rich ! Get up, Old Gray. Farther down the lane, however, where the ripenng blackberries hung their knobs of jet every bough sad way and the wood of • little brook somewhere in the distance made a dreamy gurgling ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1893
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3022 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

IRISH s:

... on the most approved principles. A few would even practice the House of Commons, Duellists would then be as numerous as blackberries in September. No deabt oar laws justly take into consideration what are called extenuating cirenmstances. We all know too ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1870
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3623 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AVOID SLANG

... Americans are very fend of bait, and invariably have it served for supper, as they call a six o'clock tea. So much that blackberries, in all their native wildness, are sold at the same price as strawberries and raspberries.—Meemilleses Megastwe. An oath ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1867
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3525 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ARRIVAL or TUB AVBICA

... both band*, mean poets and authors whose name and funic will outlive the present generation. Small versifiers are plenty blackberries; and men and women who make books'’ may b« counted thousands. Nothing i« easierthan to manufacture volume of verse, three ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1867
Newspaper: Ulster Gazette
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LAZY BEE

... poverty. Then 1 come quietly home, when they are all fast asleep, and snoring. There’s fine family of hornets among the blackberry bushes, and have fine times stinging the cherries moonlight.” Lazylegs, I’m afraid you are a miserable vagabond, said ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1870
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3254 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PRINOIMS PRIMROSE

... after your long walk ? It was deliciously refreshing in the wood this afternoon, didn't you think so ? I went as far as Blackberry Copse, and should have liked to have gone on, bet darkness falls so rapidly now that summer is passing, I thoupt I bad better ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1893
Newspaper: Armagh Standard
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3239 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LEVIVTHAN

... appears that on Sunday a party of lads, from the neighbourhood of Richmond Hill, Leeds, went out into the country to gather blackberries. They were attracted a dark purple fruit, and asked a farmer what it was. His reply was that it was the mulberry, and told ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1858
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3545 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RURAL AFFAIRS

... with impunity, there are none so low that they may not at some time to be able to repay an obligation. Lite is a field of blackberry bushes: mean people s>)Uat down and pick the fruit, no matter bow they black their fingern ; while genius, proud and pe ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1864
Newspaper: Armagh Guardian
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3370 | Page: 7 | Tags: none