... lane of adolescence will go spying greedily on every side for friendships; and, at first, they seem as plentiful as the blackberries upon the luxuriant hedges that defend our pathway. But somehow, as the road widens, and begins, perhaps, to climb upon ...

... withered leaves, when the harvest wages have been paid and the kirn dance held, when the children are beginning to look for blackberry and hazel-nut, the bee-keepers will come back for their hives. Gloomily they will travel home in mist and rain if the season ...

... shutting of many favourite wild resorts. And it would be impossible to have a special bill for mushrooms. Acorns, crab-apples, blackberries, hazel-nuts—all the so-called natural products' stand on the same footing. Luckily no such drastic measure is necessary ...

... time that Japan and Japanese art ceased to be a craze, and became a study. For one reason--and reasons are plentiful as blackberries--Old Japan is rapidly passing away; and Young Japan, whatever its undeveloped merits, is artistically less admirable. It ...

... and fed at no little expense it is the reverse of agreeable to find that not only has the cover been invaded for nuts and blackberries, but the trespassers are amusing themselves by throwing stones at the birds. Under the pretext of nutting a gang of idle ...

... men, of strange tastes in the way of acquaintance, describing themselves in similar if not identical terms, are thick as blackberries were a fortnight ago. Noscunturne a soda? Shall they be taken to be men of like kidney with their boon companion of the ...

... has done his work well. There is no pretence about it, the style is simple, modest and adequate. The anecdotes, thick as blackberries, are invariably well told and worth telling : the biographical sketches of a hundred heroes clearly and neatly contrived ...

... students. Outside his official work he has no care and no interest in his University ; yet academic magazines are plentiful as blackberries, and have been so since 1822. The fact is one worth study. The bibliography of the subject is yet to complete, but there ...

... crumples and spoils; so if your fancy roam to the vegetable kingdom rather garnish yourself with fruits. Branches heavy with blackberries in every stage of development abound ; so do cherries and currants of uncommon brilliance. But the prettiest and coolest ...

... really be much more excuse to-day than there was a while ago for the belief that literary genius had become even as the blackberry: so widely diffused is the talent which can imitate it, and so admirably close is the imitation. It is no were trick of ...

... sentries,' guarding the approaches to the Cloud King,' Ruwenzori, on whose flanks, under the burning Equator, one can feed on blackberries and bilberries, and quench the thirst with crystal water fresh from the snow-beds ' ; and that between the larger of the ...

... have attained their full bearing capacity; and while they are still small you may grow gooseberries, rasps, currants, and blackberries, as well as vegetables of various sorts, in the opens between them. To plant eight hundred apple-trees and fifteen hundred ...