... Mr. Stephens' Blackberry Picking, well carved as it is, may be quoted as another example of what is to deprecated. What does it mean Here is a pretty, but absurd young lady, en desha bille, supposed to have been _ picking blackberries The truth is, the ...

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THE INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...

... himself and his Maker. What we have affirmed is borne out by many passages, but especially by such poems as Outgoing, The Blackberry Farm, and To my Brother Guy. The last two may also be cited as instances of Mr. Piatt's perfect gift of lyric melody, ...

... miles beyond. Carriages of all kinds, and animals of all kinds, formed a con tinuous stream. Fours-in-hand were as thick as blackberries, a witness to the fact that the ancient art has not yet died out. Clap- ham presented many such crowds and scenes as that ...

... singular spelling of Phidias to be found in the lexicon. The engrav ings in the book are exquisite, particularly those of the blackberry, the Ulvainza, and the fever-few, which last would be charming in a frieze. Anthologia Anglica, by Howard Williams, M.A ...

... dinners in which quantity at least is not wanting while as for fruits, there are always strawberries, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, huckleberries, currants, blue berries (in the mountain regions), peas, apples, peaches, melons of various kinds, plums ...

... dust blowing from the plain of heath had collected there the rains had hardened it into soil, the wind had brought seeds a blackberry bush had profited by the shallow bed to grow up there. This bush belonged to the species called fox black berry. It was ...

... brims are much worn. A very pretty trimming for them consists of a black velvet bow and ends to fasten a wreath of ivy, blackberry blossom, and fruit. Wild flowers and fruit are much used for trimming straw hats and bonnets. The cavalier- shape hat in ...

... was held on Wednesday and following days. Over 200 dogs competed in the various stakes, and hares were as plentiful as blackberries. Notwithstanding unfavourable weather a very successful meeting was held in the earlier part of the week at Burton-on- ...

... useful warning to the careless swimmer we may mention Medusa and her Locks, a story of the poisonous Cyanea cafillata, and a Blackberry Bush in Autumn, as a pleasant sketch of one of these common objects of the hedgerow, from which so much may be learnt had ...

... the plan seems reasonable enough. Secretaryships being comparatively rare, while would-be secretaries are as plentiful as blackberries, it enables the employer to winnow out ineligible candidates. The concern finds its resources increased by additional capital ...

... the wild strawberry might, with a little care, become a most agreeable addition to our list of fruits, and possibly the blackberry, with some small attempt at cultivation, might almost rival the mulberry. Undoubtedly there is much land and there are many ...