... great powers of Russia, Austria, and Prussia. The great day came and therewith compliments and complimenters as plenty as blackberries. But the ambassadors from the great triumvirate of Eastern Europe were absent ; and they weirs the more thought of because ...

... when great men are scarce. Opportunities snake these, and the time is coming when opportunities will be as plentiful as blackberries, and great men as plentiful as both. Still, for the moment, the public cast about in vain, as far as regards confidently ...