... as is well known, the tea of China ! The fruit of the blackberry, too, is useful, though Shakspeare thought but little of it, as he makes Thersites say of Ulysses, “He is not worth a blackberry ! But the Greeks and the Romans believed them as being useful ...

... Readers, it will be said, must keep up with the current literature of the day—with the magazines and novels that swarm like blackberries in autumn, and with the pleasantly written volumes upon small subjects and on great that claim the little leisure they ...

... extremely cheap, as the book is rare, and contains portraits of Moliere and his wife in stage costume. If £3O were but common blackberries once were, here is a chance to invest them. A huge catalogue of nearly two thousand works is that or M. Destallleur. The ...

... ’s joy,” the many-hued leaves of the • 01 . various trees, the mountain ash berries, and the nan- fully-ripe sprays of blackberries afford exl e , .„ f tunity for the display of feminine taste and for the eleg> simplicity. ...

... out of all manner of berries, blossoms, and boughs. Birch shoots, elderberries, rhubarb, jowslips, sloes, cherries, and blackberries, as well grapes and gooseberries, formed bases for wines but it seems that it was only seldom that people were so indiscreet ...

... then ceased hostilities, and the little girl began to pick her fallen blackberries, looking curiously now and then at her adversary from beneath her eyelids. “There are bigger blackberries than these up there, past the little bridge in the orchard hedge,” ...

... we could wish her in the classic garments of Galatea. At time when actresses of the first importance do not grow like blackberries on hedges, the great gifts of this clever young lady are not to be despised. Nature has given her much, and art in good ...

... that he has spotted something ; so that our hearts begin to beat thick and fast. Meanwhile, crouch low behind the whin and blackberry bushes, and our eyes search as best they may the torn defiles on the opposite bank. It is not long before the deer are seen ...

... deg., and generally speaking, the air reminds one of a beautiful summer day m England. The bracken grows round here,and blackberries are abundant. The maidenhair fern, and such flowers the verbena, the convolvulus, and the heliotrope are seen in plenty ...

... made her wonder if it was like a battlefield. Opposite, the other side of the main road, was a wide expanse of gorse, and blackberry bushes, the great trees of Severndroog and its ruined tower showing above them the left; and on the right, beyond the Scrubs ...

... were full of nut-trees, and in the autumn the nuts hung thick and green, and amid the bracken and briar and underwood the blackberries and wild raspberries trailed. Sometimes, if Uncle Eobert were iu a good humour, Katherine would push heir hand into his—it ...

... Woods which Susan Barnes sometimes allowed her to take on summer afternoons. She never dared to stay among the nut-trees and blackberry bushes to day-dream or to wonder about the future, but walked on methodically and sedately, so that she might not fail to ...