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... could up to this time knock down with a feather. In troublesome times, when murders in this country were plentiful as blackberries, I recollect at night once crossing a pass through a mountain. Our party was suddenly brought to a halt by the guide, ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1853
Newspaper: Morning Herald (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FRANCE

... whom c could up to this time knock down with a feather. *ft troublesome times, when minders in this country plentiful as blackberries, I recollect at ***ght once crossing a pass through a mountain. Our party was suddenly brought to a halt by the guide ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1853
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1869 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Literature

... Smith in the first rank of our first writers. Throughout the whole poem, beauties are as plentiful as blackberries, and more plentiful than blackberries ever are until stript from the bush they grow on; and here there is neither bush nor branch, nor any ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1853
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3955 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

(From our C pendent.)

... priest-ridden Irish. While almost all sinecure situations bare been abolished in Scotland, in England they are plenty as blackberries. daresay few people are aware of the existence of such functionaries as the followin;;—Keeper of the Swans, with £4OO a-year; ...

Published: Friday 26 August 1853
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1798 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AUSTRALIA

... many, and it does not speak much for the health of the city to be told that all the doctors, whom you find as thick as blackberries at the eastern end of the town, are making their 2,0002 a-year, and some much more. Then these gentlemen tell you nothing ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1853
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5311 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOOLHUPE NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB

... effects. To this last description, two of our most common wild fruits certainly do not answer, true as it generally is. The blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) and the bilberry or whimberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) are not only very wholesome, but their taste rather ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1853
Newspaper: Hereford Times
County: Herefordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4367 | Page: 7 | Tags: none