... made payable to a very few men. If there were no labour there would be no property; if a man were a savage and lived on blackberries, he or somebody else must work to pick the berries. If he indulges in dress, in the shape of a coat of paint, somebody ...

... your earnest letter, we fail to see how we are to distinguish between what you describe as the delusions plentiful as blackberries, in lunatic asylums, and the special communications made to you day by day by spirits. (June 28th.) H. Meeson—How are ...

... precautions against bad health. But the phenomena came at last, and in the full power of the light. Raps came as plentiful as blackberries, and replied to commonplace questions; the candlestick tilted away from any of the sitters; and two books naked (and afterwards ...

... six very large white lilies. There were also a large piece of fir tree and a bunch of crab apples, and a small piece of blackberry bush containing some unripe fruit. Everything appeared cool and freshly gathered, although Mrs. Thayer had been in the room ...