... The office was worth, in ordinary times, about £4,000 a-year, and in extraordinary, when. erown prosecutions cropped like blackberries, in the days of Whi Rockism , double teboyism and and treble that amount. If divided per a-year !— Pree man. counties the ...

... length, swarming with fiab. I have been two or three times becalmed there, and caught cod big as donkeys and aa plenty blackberries. Upon that information Captain Rhodes acted. He had often thought of trying it, but it ia a lonely place to alone, St ...

... in r»'.f or in milk, ca'ved on or a. or Ist Januaiy, 1858, 4 sovs.: Lord Talbot de Malahide's Ophelia; S ! F. Heygato's Blackberry commended 13. For the brit Polled An&cs or Galloway heifer, cilved on or after Ist January, 1860, 4 sovs.: No competition ...

... The phrase, plenty as blackberries must have originated here, for the road is lined with bushes black with clusters of the ripe fruit, and at the stations boys were anxiously seeking purchasers for buckets of blackberries at eight cents the gallon ...

... would regard the phenomenon as a peculiarly happy and timely interposition of Providence. These excellent people don't care blackberry for Victob Emmanuel, or Garibaldi, Mazzivi, and they don't wish any ill the Pope ; but they can't help thinking that the ...

... collegiate education. There are magnificent buildings, ample endowments, a full army of professors, scholarships, plenty as blackberries, all supported from that milch cow—the Exchequerthere is really nothing wanted except students. Sir Robert Peel did not ...

... could never cultivate their hedge-sides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes and hips and p ...

... beloved country. “ He had to contend against a great deal in his district, for the infamous Cc Opperheads wer, e os thick as blackberries, and he often felt as Christian vir tue, tha if he would like Uwrashing a man to be a t he might have the privilege of ...

... soldiers passing in and out of camp with havresacks, buckets, and camp kettles, so that by this time potatoes, onions, apples, blackberries, chickens, &c., are getting rare and scarce. Every man round here isa rank rebel, and the men say they don’t mean to starve ...

... primrose and ferns, the vine and wheat, the passionflower, the fig leaf and fruit, the rose, shamrock, and thistle, the blackberry, &c. In the spandrils between the arches are carved in alto ‘relievo, demi figures of angels in circular nels, playing upon ...

... gown, enormous bundles which bowed them down; cows, scattered here and there, browzed the green brancies of the tangled blackberry, heifers looked up, but moved not as we passed, and goats, which fled at our hh. Geese in long files charged into the meadows ...

... magistrates in tbe city exists. Mr. Collins—Oh, I did not say they could not be found in the city, for they are plenty as blackberries, but I said sometimes it is not easy to fiud two presiding at the same time. The Recorder—lf your client wanted to find ...