... grapes; but now, what he produces more than I gaudy flowers, since he was transplanted, is but like tbe prickly thorn and the blackberry of the bramble. When I heard him in the Oratory in London, he kept (to use the only suitable phraseology), the house ...

... William and Mary Howitt, ornaments of a sect to whom coronets are an abomination. Married authors have been plentiful as blackberries, but married poets have been rare indeed ! The last instance, too, was rather a warning than an example. When Caro- line ...

... coat was of white silk, trimmed with white tulle and white ribbons. Her Majesty wore round her head a wreath composed of blackberries and diamonds. The diplomatic circle was introduced, when the following presentations to her Majesty and his Royal Highness ...

... Commons. Now that an election is imminent, and every day brings intelligence that legal candidates are as plenty as blackberries, it may not be out of place to inquire whether such a prejudice does exist, and whether any reasonable grounds can be ...

... justify (to themselves' the ' their pre-ordination. Such occurrences are J ' remarkable coincidences,' and they grov ' ?? blackberries,' to be had for the mere trout. There are those who will extract the mate favourite theme from the commonest affairs ...

... each other by the receptacle, the expansion of which forms the the fleshy part of the fruit; while in the raspberry and the blackberry the receptacle is the white fleshy stalk which occupies the centre of the fruit ; and the pulpy por- tion consists of the ...

... grass. djigholm Alder. ■ M'Linnoii St. John's wort. Oo lquhoun Hazel. M'Lachlan Mouutain ash. Gumming ?? sallow. : M'Lean Blackberry heath. Drumra ond HoU y- M'Leod Whurtle berries. Farauhar-on Purple fox glove. M'Nab Boebuck berries. Fenruson Poplar. M'Neal ...

... point for which we were bound was not utterly defenceless, and in a land where stock- ades seemed almost as * plenty as blackberries,' there ap- peared every chance of our falling in with one somewhere or other. This was not the only time that I was ' ...

... Co- lonies of Australia. Th«jre is now-a-days no keeping pace with the books upon that subject ; they are as plenty as blackberries, and devoured as quickly ; but the volume before us has been compiled with so much care, and the author himself has had ...

... arise. I passed j through one of our fields last week in which was a flock of ) turkeys. These were occupied in picking blackberries from : | the hedge, and 3S they had cleared off all within their reach, ! I determined to help them to some of the higher ...

... field is quite away from any houses, the nearest to it being that of Mr. Renton. The locality in question is noted for blackberries, and it was by two little children gathering that wild fruit that the body was found. On Friday, the 3d of September last ...

... Christ, with Martha and Mary; the folds of the dra- pery are well massed, but tl»e figures are out of pro- portion. The Blackberry Gatherers, by Mr. E. J. Cobbett, is a well painted picture, the faces of the children are very pretty; but although the ...