ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE

... discussion on the rela- tive merits of Horsecy, Finchley, Wanstead, Epping, and Woodford, as suitable places of resort for blackberry gather. ing. At last September came, and the first jaunt took place. We took our dinners with us in our bags, though many ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
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THE POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED STATES

... such a Secretary of State as Webster to deal with, the world had no trouble in finding for his lordship motives ,thick as blackberries for so un- manly, so un-English, and so unstatesinanhke a counsel. In the recently published Opinions of Lord Palmerston ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1856
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4709 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER

... and spirit-rapping, for if he had been born two or three centuries ago, when witches and wizards were as plentiful as blackberries, he would in- 1 evitably have been burnt for proficiency in the black art. Invited to consider the terms of a Government ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 11611 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Caledonian Mercury

... yearly emerge on the crowded arena of therapeutics, where it has of late become a proverb that 31.ID.'s are as plenty as blackberries; more so, it might almost be said, since numbers of the former arc to be found, where the latter only sparsely glow-viz ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1856
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3603 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Cfte €team of Ijiturb

... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

TOWN TALK

... table in character—not destitute of talent, adapted for real usefulness and permanent popularity, are now plentiful as blackberries. Under these circum- stances it is amusing to read the report of a meeting recently held in London, under the title of ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1856
Newspaper: Usk Observer
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1883 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER

... worth, and even his mitre, whlclt we presume is of gold. The Bishop of London in retreat will not have to subsist ol the blackberries, or pass even his summer ntghtts under the oaks of Fulbam. Very different are the days and nights reserved for his lordship ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1856
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 10398 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

WESTERN SIBERIA

... the ese buckthorns, different varieties of the rose) the common bar- hbrry, whith goosaberries, currants, rarpberriem, blackberries, and otber shrubs, Cherries and apples have not RAayet answered, though an at~tempt was made to rear them in, three gardens ...

Published: Tuesday 02 September 1856
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
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THE METROPOLIS

... fortune could not be ascertained. SINGUJLARI DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED I SUICIDE. On Wednesday afternoon, while some boys were blackberrying in Annerley-wood, the property of Mr. f Rogers, one of them, a youth named Osborne, got in a close thicket to pluck some ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1856
Newspaper: North Wales Chronicle
County: Caernarfonshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4758 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

VARIETIES

... Verdict, Temporary insanity. S SIxGULARa DiscovEmisx OF A SUrrOSED SUICIDE.-On ' Tuesday afternoon, while sonie boys were blackberrying i in Anerley Wood, near the Crystal Palace, one of diem, r a youth named Osborn, got into a close thicket to pluck f some ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1856
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5340 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

GAINSBOROUGH THE PAINTER

... whether like the wild Indaian of the prairie, Jackc pined 'for the unrestrain- ed freedom of liahis ative woods - the blackberries and the-roasted'sloes;' or, what is more likely, feared chastisement for his many ungrateful doings, after a brief trial ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3612 | Page: 2 | Tags: News