... standing amidst fine old yew-trees and thick hedges, where many a truant hour had been passed in seeking birds' nests and blackberries. Every year, however, the nests and fruit became less objects of interest, and the beautiful lake at his feet more deeply ...

... the tea-tables of most well-to-do American farmers—viz., fruit shortcake. Huckleberries are much liked; in iliis country blackberries mulberries could be used their stead, and nothing could be more delicious than raspberry or strawbeiry shortcake. The recipe ...

... such shameful frauds ! for he, poor fellow, will have a tilt, Sancho-panzo-like, at windmills, where there are plenty, as blackberries, of bona fide grievance close at hand. There's the gas question, cabs, the boatmen and their charges to emigrants going ...

... glittering in her eye. They have roam'd the meadow, they have roam'd the wood, Seeking nuts and blackberries. for their pleasant food. With their nuts and blackberries and lumps of bread and cheese On.a mossy hedge-bank now they sit at ease, Drinking from the ...

... fruit, which promises to make it an object of general cultivation. I have do doubt it is a seedling from the common wild blackberry. It originated in a graveyard in the village of Cattawissa, Columbia Co. Penn. ...

... Underbill contributed a basket ingeniously and beautifully ornamented with mess and berries, and containing crab-apples. nuts, blackberries, dewberries, elderberries, sloes, and other wild fruits; another very pretty basket of wild fruit was exhibited by Elizabeth ...

... blatant friends, egged on by English huzzas ; but, hitherto, all has been “Vox et preeterea nihil.” Promises, plentiful as blackberries which have never ripened into fruit — declarations of assistance, which have hitherto always belied themselves, have followed ...

... and, by St. Anthony, they I shall bite the dust. Their reasons for being wrathful shall henceforward be as plentiful as blackberries, but not so i palatable. Out of the quarrel the public will be benefited I in pocket, and mentally enlightened. We shall ...

... jumping out of their carriage and making themselves as small as possible. Ascents of Mont Blanc are getting almost as common blackberries. The Rev. Christ. Smyth, one of the curates of St. Nicholas, Yarmouth, has lately ascended to the highest point of Monte ...

... these gentry have clustered the i dwellings and bazaars esclosely along the hill-side c which now goes by this name, as blackberries in E spring, and with the utter disregard to sanitary or I any other wholesome regulations which might be I expected from ...

... considered as dead, have “gone off” at a surprising.rate. Of course the usual accompaniments of such pastimes are plentiful as blackberries, and burns and bruises testify to the sources whence numbers have attempted to show their delightful appreciation of the ...

... own defence ami St. Anthonv they shall the dust; their reason* for being wrathful shall henceforward he as plentiful as blackberries, but not so palatable. Out of the quaiTi 1 the public will benefitted ui pocket and mentillr enlightened. We shall, week ...