... Hull shall not suffer from political stagnation. This week Speaker’s Warrants are said to be as plentiful in this Borough blackberries in autumn. Of course this has roused the old party spirit, and nothing is talked of but the probable results of the Election ...

... His promises of situations as dock-yard servants, messengers, and so forth, were stated to have been as plentiful as blackberries. He sympathised l w a i b t o h u t r h ers, thehard condition an d l ow wages of docksignificantly intimating that he ...

... little washing, charing, or weeding, not to speak of the more laborious field-work, for the mother; and cowslip, elder, blackberry, and mushroom picking, in their several seasons, for the children; by all which methods various small sums are obtained ...

... case, all but unavoidable. The art of cheap railway construc- tion had not then been invented-money was as plen- tiful as blackberries, and 'was flung about with lavish profusion; not so much, perhaps, upon the works, as upon the preparations for commencing ...