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VARIETIES

... said of a berry which is called the \' blackberry. It is described as being, when fully ripe, a light greenish brown colour. A friend who is very *' very desirous to if they are red when green, like black blackberry. fl A Horrible Business.— Master Butcher ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1851
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TO THE REFORMERS OF DEVON

... agree with that the system making oScers, in large U , W j . extravagance. We have Captains of all denominations thick as blackberries, and have a pretty fair sprinkling of generals of all sorts, and admirals of all kinds scattered over the country. Every ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1851
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1645 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

To the Editor qf the West of EnQland Conservative

... is well worth weighing (together with Baptist Noel’s testimony) Mr Goode and his friends—who can make charges, thick as blackberries, of inconsistency and dishonesty, against those who bold what tbe Prayer-book plainly teaches, and what no sophistry in ...

MR. MECRTS BALANCE SHEET. To the Editor oj the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. Sir, —The agricultural world may ..

... horses lit line only ploughing three-fourths of acre. Again, steam-engines Norfolk, Lincoln, and Scotland, as plentiful as blackberries (p. 34) ; and then the erroneous statement that last year he visited Devonshire, and found a recently erected tilery on ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1852
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2074 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SpERIAI PARLIAMENT

... one hon. member state his expenses at £40,000 for one election. Elections costing from £5,000 to £10,000 were 'plenty as blackberries'— (loud laughter). Now be (Mr. Bell) had had the excitement of an election, the luxury of petition, and all the expenses ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1852
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5020 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VARIETIES

... to it, provided they could be first fairly drawn, and then comfortably quartered. Touching Metaphor.—Life is a field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and perpendicular ...

Published: Saturday 28 February 1852
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COURT AND FASHION

... white bugles. The petticoat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribands. The head wreath was composed of blackberries and diamonds. Among those present from this neighbourhood were, Earl Morley, Lord Bridport, Sir J. Y. Buller, Bart., M- ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1852
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COUNTRY MARKETS

... litbes, ad taxes upon them. Aain, in partt ei Norolk, Linooloshire, and Scotland, steam- engines ate almnost as plentiful s blackberries; whilst in most otherceonties, theyhave few or noue. In my own, with a million of acres, we have lees than hslf.a-dozen ...

Published: Thursday 24 June 1852
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1517 | Page: 2 | Tags: Commerce 

LITERATURE

... Journal. Walks Abroad. Home Companion. Little Henry'a Sunday Book. Pleasant Pages. The Vacant Throne and its Claimants. The Blackberry Gathering. Dictionary of Domestic Medicine. Familiar Things. The Juvenile. The Biographical Magazine. Uncle Tom's Cabin ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1852
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6250 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

POETRY

... flocking birds to slay, Yet should'st thou in the danger ran, He turns the tube away. The Gipey boy, who seeks in glee, Blackberries for a dainty meal, Laughs loud oa first belholdieg thee, When called, so near his presence steal. He surely thinks thou ...