... about two o'clock in the afternoon of the above-named day, and took his way, it is supposed, towards the river In search of blackberries. His parents, missing his presence at tea, went round the village in search of him, but failed to see or to hear any account ...

... fire-place, and, while the yule-log blazed bright and cheerily, told Christmas stories, in which ghosts were as plentiful as blackberries. III one tale that was then told, the hpro belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary (and as is commonly the ...

... gin- palace like a bad shilling? I can't tell, my son. Because you can't pass it, said the boy. Life is a tield of blackberry bushes mean people squat down and pick up the fruit, DO matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud and pe ...

... published in a periodical, and then forgotten with all convenient speed and with regard to essays, which are numerous as blackberries, the best of the small ones may shine for a month in a local publication, while the large ones are seldom published at ...

... melons, &c.: but this is just the end of winter here, so that we saw no kind of fruit, except what was unripe, and a few blackberries, just like what we have in England. There are about 15J people on the island, includ- ing several blacks, a governor, parson ...

... rings, no bed, of water-cress, No woods to play the truant in when pedagogues oppress, hedges and no gutters where the blackberries may hide, And wild rose-trees luxuriant trail in all their summer pride; N?, none of these !—I therefore feel to wish my ...

... whither we went from Stepney at eight years of age Blackberrying. We knew almost every dell, and cover, and tangled copse, and from any path could lead you direct to the richest garden of blackberries. We knew the haunts of Hornsey, and Finchley, and ...

... indifferent about his attentions! Little Dick Morley, the wheelwright's son, was always ready to help us catch the pony, or go blackberrying with us, and what did we want more ? Tom was boasting one day of how many times he had danced with the above- named lady ...

... we find such passages as Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, scattered over his lu- cubrations as plentifully as blackberries. But what love can this writer have, either for his God or his neighbour, when he proves himself utterly devoid of charity ...

... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

... table in character—not destitute of talent, adapted for real usefulness and permanent popularity, are now plentiful as blackberries. Under these circum- stances it is amusing to read the report of a meeting recently held in London, under the title of ...

... OYER. Last Thursday, a little boy, eleven years of age, named William Baker, while crossing the road after getting some blackberries from a hedge, near the barracks, was knocked down by a farmer who was driving a cart, and received a severe concussion ...