... Rumours, alarming or extraordinary, as the case may be, come to the fore, they say in Ireland, plentiful as blackberries in the Surrey hedges, and in many cases nearly as black. In the palmy days of the profession, enormous gooseberries, B ...

... 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 ...

... which was not denied, went to show that the complainant went on Putney heath on the evening of Sunday last to pick some blackberries, where she saw the prisoner, who gathered some for her, and then asked her to walk short distance, and said they would ...

... Falstaff's pun on Reasons, hovevc cannot be so classed. It thus— Give you a reason on compulsion ' If reasons were as plenty blackberries, I would Kite no maii a reason on compulsion ; 1. The essence this pun the very reverse of that give n in Walker's Dictionary- ...

... Ita ared that the plaintiff is a married woman; on Friday, she went to defendant’s for the purpose, as she alleged, of blackberries, but seeing some ears of corn on the groun a: she picked them up instead. Defendant ultimatel came to the spot, and desired ...

... may possibly not be discovered. Very elaborate reviews of the worlr and progress the late session have been as abundant blackberries, and yet after all the most marvellous fact is the change which seems to have taken place in the temper and disposition ...

... grossest articles —even on iron. In NewYoik the number of men who acorn to labour in Pennsylvania make stores as plentiful as blackberries. Almost the only coal company of hundreds in the district, which pays their men in cash, is in Car- bondale; they have ...

... efficacy. Detergents, or substances for cleansing silk and woollen fabrics, have been for the last thirty years as plenty as blackberries, from the salts of sonrel, to turpentine disguised with oil of lemons there has been no end to such professing evasers ...

... THE CHERBOURG RE-UNION. NATIONAL SHOWS are becoming as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. If we have now-a-days fewer Punch and Judies; travelling waggons with learned pigs, Albanian girls, dwarfs and giants; penny booths for the representation of Alonzo ...

... of the heroic Dans* Esparia, ae It was played to mo, of bravo old Riseay.’* A WaiTß Caow.—A son of ours, while picking blackberries, few days since. In the nefghbournood of this city, knocked down from small tree with a sieno sad coogbt perfectly whits ...

... 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 ...

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