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... with parti-coloured ribbons in streamers) the old tapering Maypole. We are not imagining ourselves back in the days when blackberries might be picked by the wayside in Tottenham court-road. When there was really a suburban village, with a village cross ...
... jokes and laughs as hevty as ever. At his reception one evening last week in the White House the negroes were as thic'x is blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke ; he was an ap- plicant for an office in the New York Customhouse ...
... swimming has been reduced to a few easy lessons. Men who can swim their half-dozen miles in the Thames are as plentiful as blackberries. Not long since Walker, a north country swimmer, swam from London-bridge to Greenwich, a distance of five miles 300 yards ...
... rewarded General Luders for his ill-treatment of the Poles by creating him a Russian Count (they are as plentiful in Russia as blackberries), and bestowing him a pension for life of 36,000 roubles out of the Polish Treasury. The game has cost the Poles rather ...
... the Periodicals. As radiant in colouring as the holly boughsas variously composed as the plum-puddings—as plentiful as blackberries in October—are the Christmas numbers poured forth by the popular periodicals of the day every December. The most modestly ...
... with the exception of those on guard, seek the grateful shade of the woods. Some may be found a mile from camp, picking blackberries, others visiting the few miserable farmhouses in the vicinity in search of good water or fresh milk—for the latter they ...
... swimming has been reduced to a few easy lessons. who can swim their half-dozen miles in the Thames are as plentiful as blackberries. Not long since Walker, a north country swimmer, swam from London-bridge to Greenwich, a distance of five miles 300 yards ...
... rewarded General Luders for his ill-treatment of the Poles by creating him a Russian Count (they are as plentiful in Russia as blackberries), and beStowing him a pension for life of 36,000 roubles out of the Polish Treasury. The game has cost the Poles rather ...
... practised eye, to a memery familiar with the Elegy as it is (and whose is not ?), like Falsta.ff's reasons, plentiful as blackberries. For example, there are no less than six separate verses, or rather stanzas, in this draught copy of the Elegy not to ...
... heavier firearms and more rifles, but in vain-- an inability which to us in 1863 , when rifles and cannon are as common as blackberries, seems astonishing. On the return ai the propri e t or th e elephant was de ad, havin g received between ono and two hundred ...
... the body of a female in a ditch, under very suspicious circumstances. On Thursday last, as some children were gathering blackberries on the edge of a ditch which separates the farms of •Mr. H. W. Godfrey and Mr. Charles Makins, on the Low Levels, in a ...
... peach, 180 plum, 80 almond, 40 quince, and 40 fig trees. The bushes were 25 currant, 40 gooseberry, 50 raspberry, and 60 blackberry. This amount is sufficient to form three fair sized orchards and vineyards, and if they arrive in Japan in good order,. ...