... great in the matter o' domestic servants. I'm old enough, myself, to remember the time when handy girls were as common as blackberries; but it's past all doubt that we can't get 'em now, as they say, for love or money—not even a shapeless lass, with a marvellous ...

... thinly and there thickly covering a flat and cold surface. At every station women and children appeared, offering cakes, blackberries, and wild strawberries for sale. As we approached Eidsvold, the country became more romantic: the forests deepened; and ...

... Ilcwksheale a n ,rec e e n n r tly . little aired four, with him and 'on reaching then) he sit him -;l;.atid him gathering blackberries. In about__. after the father returned, and found b- m ati ci - g on a gat e w ith hi s h ea d between d a sr r_itlite ...

... influence of the Church ' f there were private sc h oo l s , conducted by clergym en 0 d the Establishment, as plentiful as blackberries; ' more plentiful still, seminaries for ladies, also the influence o f th e Ch urc h. B u t w h er e would the., find schools ...

... ly could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes and hips and pignuts and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature; never able to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time, ...

... the auspices of the Emancipation Society, has come down on rebel sympathisers in this province (and they are as thick as blackberries) a thunder. clap. They now begin to find that the old British lion of freedom is again awake, and slave•dealers and tyrants ...

... , to Mark Rogers, i No. 111, Techbroke-street, Pimlico, for a panel, n walnut wood, of Dead Game, in a wreath of oak, blackberry, fern, &c., intended for the decoration of dining-room, sideboard, or chimney-piece—modelled and carved by him. 2nd prize ...