... Downing-street courtesy; but it is mostly combined with official reticence. Promises of best consideration are plenty as blackberries; but it seldom happens that the head of a Department will reason together with a train of private gentlemen, come to ...

... that on Sunday week a party of lads, from the neighbourhood of Richmond-hill, Leeds, went out into the country to gather blackberries. They were attracted by a dark purple fruit, and asked a farmer what it was. He replied that it was the mulberry; he told ...

... nursemaid of twelve years of age, named Kitley, took four young children, named Cornish, into a field, and they ate some blackberries and haws. One of them, aged two years and nine months, died the following morning, after violent vomiting and purging. ...