... picture London damsels gathering primroses or violets on the rising ground about the office Household Words, or hunting for blackberries on the site of Exeter Hall, or sitting to rest on the green sward where Drury Lane Theatre now stands. Marylebone was then ...

... us to the Rule of Three, if ozs. cost Id., now much will lib. I cost ? Answer, 4d. Knowledge at 4d. per lb., cheap as blackberries. It is fortunate that the test one of weight, and not of measure, or we might have had to search for two intellectual ...

... temporarily sea-sick, and then he becomes permanently sick of the sea. The truth is, Willie soon discovers reasons plentiful as blackberries for thinking less highly of sailors than people do on shore. We talk of the jolly Jack Tar, and our gallant blue jackets ...

... walking along the road, some distance from the house, she met Rogers and Clayton, two of the prisoners, picking the hedge for blackberries, as she thought. One of them asked her what time it was, and she replied very nearly two o'clock. She passed on; and ...

... characters, To Disembodied men. Blackjberries not so Plenty.—Blackberries have been selling in Liverpool at higher prices than damsons, the prices per quart being, for blackberries, 5d., for damsons 4d, and plums 3d. The Fifth of Novemher, —A New ...