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A REVEREND IMPOSTOR

... nothing but black clothes ; adopt a waistcoat of many buttons—a high gaunt thing, which seems to have come out in an eruption blackberries at the edge ; then take care that his coat is long about the legs, and the hat little broad the brim, and he is Reverend ...

6 FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL.' The recent anneanoemeat by Messrs Blackwood that they were about to publish another ..

... with their straggling beauty, shrouded the grassy borders of the pastures with cat-kilted bagels, sod tossed their long blackberry branches on the corn-fielda. Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale peak dogrosea ; perhaps the urchins ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1866
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1195 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ARBROATH

... of these numbers, being annoyed the fact that so large a crop of balf|>etjuies had been cast into the treasury thick as blackberries. He was happy to state that, a Lint from the Rev. Mr Cnchton in the pulpit, had been successful in getmg larger coins. ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1864
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STRENGTH AND TASTE

... every undecided point in everything, from science to stupidity, explana- tions, which explain nothing, are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, or mites in cheese. But we mean that there were two main theories, which divided the majority of the world between ...

Published: Tuesday 06 May 1862
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ARBROATH HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION

... —which erre limited to a few specimens of strawberries, nut very large, a dish of cherries. only half ripe, and ditto of blackberries in the same emdition,—were altogether, and in very stave, meagre. Vegetables and early potatoes were very little better ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1862
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1213 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES

... would certainly think themselves hardly used, if in this era of liberty, when locomotion is j cheap and girls are plenty as blackberries, they should not be allowed to pick their spouses, least, among a hundred fair ones. It is only on the pinnacle of the ...

Published: Tuesday 26 August 1862
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CEREMONY OF THE AWARDS

... have. Generals in scarlet and gold, foreign Consuls innumerable, and private gentlemen in Court dress, are plenteous as blackberries—every third or fourth carriage has its cocked hat. It is a fine show thi3, and helps us to understand a j feeling the Londoners ...

Published: Monday 14 July 1862
Newspaper: Dundee Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1661 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WAR IN AMERICA

... I suppose you may have heard, or read in books about America, that colonels, majors, and captains are as plentiful as blackberries, and that every third man has some military title. Well, there is a great deal of truth in it, and more so that thesa colonels ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1861
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1670 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

... their friends when they get too old and feeble to take care of themselves. In such cases murders would be as plentiful as black-berries ; but here, among us, in Christian Britain, '• the very centre and home of civilization, death by violence would be suppose ...

Published: Monday 27 July 1863
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 2 | Tags: Classifieds 

THE WAR IN AMERICA

... soldiers. I suppose you may have heard, or read in books about America, that colonels, majors, and captains are plentiful as blackberries, and that every third man has some military title. Well, there is a great deal of truth in it, and moie so that thesa colonels ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1861
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1603 | Page: 2 | Tags: none