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LIBELS ON SCOTTISH CHARACTER

... There is no remote corner the north which does not boast its burgh Demosthenes, its village Chatham. They are plentiful as blackberries. One knows the man at a glance. He is very seedy around the gills ; his mouth is large and hungry, like the wolf's Red ...

GENERAL NEWS

... addition of Mr Bentley.— Spectator. Horse-tamers are now springing up in all quarters, and threaten to become as plentiful as blackberries. It is said that the Duke of Cleveland has, during the last three years, expended £70,000 on the acquisition of works of ...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

... the composition of cookery-book. Horse-tamers are now springing up in all quarters, and threaten to become plentiful as blackberries. The Emjwror Napoleon spends a couple of hours every day at Fontainebleau rowing, his Majesty’s physicians having recommenced ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1858
Newspaper: Dundee People's Journal
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3602 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... at the West End. The large hall was crowded by a most aristocratic male audience. Peers and M.P.'s were as plentiful as blackberries. Somebody, indeed, observed that both Houses of Parliament had come down to hear what was going on. But they Avisely kept ...

DISSENSIONS IN THE CABINET—A MYTH

... of our newspapers. Rumours, alarming, or extraordinary as the case may be, come to the fore, as plentiful as blackberries m the Sumy hedges, and in some cases neaily as black. In the palmy days of the profession enormous gooseberries, Brobdignagian ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

M. KOSSUTH ON CHERBOURG AND THE FRENCH ALLIANCE

... 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 ...

THE HOUSELESS POOR OF LONDON

... some bread uext dav. Another, singularly handsome boy, also a crossing-sweeper, has lately walked from Bristol, living on blackberries and swedes by the way, and getting a little work now and then at carrot-pulling. His mother, the only relative ever knew ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1858
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2309 | Page: 2 | Tags: none