... cutting some wood for garden purposes, in the Horse-pasture Wood, they promiscuously cut, from the side of an oak tree, a blackberry briar of the extraordinary length of 35 feet, and of last year’s growth. Blyth. —At a parish meeting, on Friday last, at ...

... subject, and he thought that the reasons for the law were not like Falstaff’s, as plentiful as blackberries, nor were the best of them even worth blackberry. The advocates of prohibition must feel their cause to be weak indeed when they could find nothing ...

... the Virgin Islands, and the lately-acquired possessions of Hong-Kong and Sarawak, in which Scotchmen are not plenty as blackberries—in which they thrive not and wax strong in Nsealth and well-doing. With accumulations to which the world at large is c ...