... some distinguished mark of favour. There are things too common with us for honour and reward. Brave men are abundant as blackberries,juid duty is absolute drug, it therefore becomes necessary to select objects of favour clear of these vulgar claims. It ...

... aud again; cre- ating 150 new peers or more, if necessary, till Lords shall become as common and cheap in England as the blackberries on the hedges; or even, as a last extremity, I will vote for, and I will support with all my powers, as a member of the ...

... upon—even to stopping Tide the and again creating 150 new peers or more, if 3p Lords shail become as common and cheap in blackberries on the hedges; or even, as a last extremity. Tag vote for, and I will support with all my po 233 me the House of Commons ...

... In the shuffle of the cards, possession mey easily be given by the French to the Sardinians, and reasons “ plentiful as blackberries” adduced tv justify so treasonable an act. ‘The Cardi- mals seem to doubt the professions of the Emperor of the French ...

... aad clinched the bargain with a kiss— and such a kiss — talk about your sugar -talk abont yer merlasses— talk about yer blackberry jam — you couldn't have got me to come nigh 'em, they would aU a tasted sour arter that. Ef Sal's daddy hadn't hollered ...

... powder in the hands of the Northern forces. There is no other war news of importanoe. Rumours are now as plentiful .as blackberries in ao* tumn with reference to the settlement of the question of the evacuation of Rome, and the universal opinion is that ...

... farmer, of Fieldhoust, Cumberland, took his son, a boy four years old, with hint to • corn field, and left him gathering blackberries. In about five minutes after, the father returned and found his son hanging on a gate which had been placed to keep the ...

... Rogers? Occurrence Bothwkli Oa Thursday afterj nooa 3e'nnigbt about half-past one o'clock, two boys, while - search of black-berries plantation opposite Wesport Farm, Bothwell, near Glasgow, discovered a black shootins coat lying among the grass. The right ...

... grape, the orange, the pomegranate, the fig, and other equally pleasant and nourishing productions — not the wild haws and blackberries which, even in nature's most prodigal humour, would be all that would fall to the lot of any poor fellow who ohould take ...

... Abe nimble squirrel ouce more rau skippingly over the rail The blackbirds down among * alders noisily sang. And under the blackberry-brier whistled the serious quail. I came, remembering well How my little shadow fell, As I painfully reached and wrote leave ...

... see everything had gone to decay. The tombstones were battered down and broken, thistles grew on the high-heap- graves—blackberries ran all along the stone walls, on one side of which was a gap wbich I had never noticed very particularly. One day after ...

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