... recompense the outlay. The “ Billy- Gamon’s Rough,” as the side of the hill fronting the river was called, fruitful in blackberries, and thick with coppice and tim- ber, under which the unassnming but lovely wild-flowers exhaled their fragrance on the ...

... accomplish. bourhood thrashing machines worked by horses were going out of date, and steam engines were as plentiful as blackberries He believed that his expenditure was remunerative, and that if they were to see his crops this year they would say that ...

... one of the tallest of the Berkshire range of mountains, The bill was said to be covered with countless bushels of ripe blackberries, and all of the high bush variety, which are the largest and the sweetest. They left the station in high spirits, and in ...

... southern Africa—away in the distant native regions of the Caffre and the Hottentot,—bottles of Bass, are as plentiful as blackberries, and settlers at the Cape toast the old country in beverage from the same brewing as their cousins are imbibing at home ...

... priest, the other day, for passing him at the Quirinal with a mere doff of the hat. Here, where cardinals are “ plenty as blackberries,” and the Pope himself can scarcely get folks to kneel to him, the primate must content himself with somewhat less adora- ...