... sup plied him with small sums at long interest, 2% i 3 while his figure was good, and where rich wives were as plenty as blackberries. “ A season or twoin London, A when you come. the world's wonder ofa fine fellow, and with money in bot 'd arich merchant's ...

... the terrified young woman. What shall I do Help me seek him some of you. Go down that lane, Giles, perhaps he is getting blackberries in the hedges.” The young man darted off down the lane, whilst others went in different directions, hoping the boy had ...

... masterpiece of Vauban—is not work wbich should make Englishmen tremble for the future. France may construct forts as plentiful blackberries along its coasts; but there is great truth in some familiar lines about Britannia needing no bulwarks, and “no towers along ...

... It is well known that since the advent of the present Government to power, the applications for places were #s plenty as blackberries in autumn, whilst the places-have been so very few end far between, as compared with former times, that hundreds of expectants ...

... nunnery all the sisters were astir in their best tuckers, aud he finished bis Mass, as the wee-we fiuished her bonuy banch of blackberries, withou ...

... I shall put on ray woman of business and of the world aspect. You shall take me one of your favourite rambles. will go black-berrying, if any berries are left for us.” Hildred and Millie went out together and spent the whole bright morning in aimless wandering ...

... besides, his police and spies are not every one of them on the other side of the channel—he has them here too, plenty as blackberries. They failed not to inform him what reception the British people were likely to give him. Then what does he meditate? Why ...

... that the Tories round Lord Eglintoun never lose an opportunity of asserting that false oaths in Ireland are as plenty as blackberries.— The Irish peasantry, they say, between their poverty and their popery, are ready at a moment’s notice to take or violate ...