... unruffled like a great plain of glass upon which fairies coulel merrily dance in their midnight revels, without fear of blackberry bushes and thorns injuring their gossamer robes and upon which Zethyrs could draw little Cupid in a delicate sledge of silver ...

... the edge of it many times without a thought occurring of seeking him there. In this retreat lie fed himself on nute and blackberries, and in the night roved about for recreation, but returned to his green-wood shelter before day-light. Even here, Twm's ...

... breeze sprang up as we reached the top of the cliff. We stopped for a few minutes when we got further on to gather a few blackberries and wild flowers. Then some pretty grass attracted our attention, and we waited to get some. We had never been so far along ...

... some of the gallant sportmen, and of other incidents connected with the Epping Hunt, as may be supposed, are plentiful as blackberries among the older inhabitants of these parts. Among anecdotes of another kind, the following is perhaps worth recording:—Lord ...

... left alone with the iour children. and she lost no time in sending her husband's two little ones into the woods to gather blackberries. Then, going to the bed where her own two children lay, she lifted the baby up cautiously, so as not to disturb her se ...

... He was walking very near to the side of the water, and was suddenly noticed to fall in. A young man who was gathering blackberries close to the spot, together with Rogers, went to Euock's assistance. The latter eagerly clutched hold of a stick that was ...

... at the court for a summons against a lodger named William Rees. Her husband afterwards joined heron the way home, and in Blackberry-road, after saying be would paint her, he knocked her down, and beat her about iu a most scandalous manner for five or ...

... find myself at last near by where the branches used to line the steep roads that led hither and thither seawards where blackberries could be gathered in their season, and ferns found which were worth carrying home; where their primi- tive simplicity of ...

... Well, sez 1. wipin' the sweat off my face, that was a narrer escape. Awful narrar, s>id S il, an' turned to pickin' blackberries as cool as .a cowcumber. That looked like Henry Callisoa's bull, said I, after a bit. I b'leeve it does, said Sal, in ...

... very tired, but very warm, as well. One shoe had burst open at the side, her new gingham apron had been torn by a vicious blackberry briar, and her hair, usually so smoothly coiled, was scattered over her shoulders in the wildest confusion. Plague take ...

... to repeat. Dealer: May I ask what tliat-tr-bl-inclor was? Boston Young Lady: 44Oh, yes. I mis- took a bumble bee for a blackberry. Ha was seated across the room44 George, the said: if a fire were suddenly to brenk out in the houxp, what would be your ...

... of the same place.—According to complainant's evidence, she and a younger girl on the day in question Vent to gather blackberries to C.vrt-y- Celyn Wood, where they met both prisoners, who wt-re nutting. Main, on approaching the girls, made indecent ...