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... which he would refer. It seemed to him an important question. as they were getting steamengines around them as thick as blackberries, who was to repair them if they got nut of order ? Hear.; A new era had arrived, and country blaektoniths must become a ...
... elegant phrase. We do not wish to weary our readers with any more of these races of diction ; but they are as plenty as blackberries in the poem. Not less common are lines totally destitute of metre ; e.g. : But followed by long black shadow flickering ...
... hundreds of acres of thriving plan- tations, Interspersed with considerable tracts of underwood where game is as abundant as blackberries. Partridges are the most abundant, for they are but seldom disturbed, and continue to procreate amid the wild recess of ...
... house. Fools grow without watering, the proverb says. It is commonly assumed, indeed, that fools are as plentiful as blackberries ; but he must be a fool who thinks so ; for the term fool has become the synonym for an honest man. The fact is that ...
... come back, if it were only for the purposes of sale, into our pockets. Simple, sanguine Mr. LABOIICMERE ! MOSESS swop of Blackberry and the colt for the gross of green spectacles was an astute deal compared to your bargain about the coasting trade, the ...
... fights and kills Brown, a ruffian of the flap hat and big buckle school, and the babes, eventually rescued from a surfeit of blackberries and the hollow of an oak tree, form, with their happy father and repentant uncle, an affecting tableau. The extravaganza ...
... his fate was at 01100 decided. It only remained to select an executioner; and for that hone candidates were as thick as blackberries. Ultimately it was conferred upon a distinguished ornament of the judicial bench, who obtained privilege of firing the ...
... upon the public treasury. Pronunciamenti, as the petty outbreaks of popular feeling are termed, have been plentiful as blackberries,but are utterly barren of any practical results. King Log has only been exchanged for King Stork, and each potentate on ...
... bachelors to match this multitude of spinsters withering on the virgin thorn. Bachelors no less than spinsters are plentiful as blackberries in la belle France; but alas, bachelorhood has no terrors for them, and they cling to it as if it were indeed a state of ...
... Ministry, in order to save their character, have nothing left them but their good intentions ; and these, plentiful as blackberries, stand recorded on the notice-papers of the House. There they jostle each other so closely that if business is to be advanced ...
... time, chickens, stewed instead of fried, potatoes without fat, two sorts of simple preserved fruit, and whortleberry and blackberry pies. ('1 he first time I have had any of these articles at a private house since I was in Western Texas.) All the work ...
... tor of a continent might bring down to Parliament a hecatomb of bills. From Comorin to Peshawur reasons are plenty as blackberries for them. Sir CHARLES WOOD'S particular reason for four was very frankly stated. He confessed that he had massed his policy ...