... y could never cultivate their hedgesides properly, but were forced to be content with sloes and hips, and pig-nuts and blackberries, and anything else that came handy and by the grace of nature; never able to raise a bushel of grain for harvest-time, ...

... lassitude becomes mortal. Those grim Christians who would lain save souls, but vastly prefer half-crowns, are plentiful as blackberries in every novel, but we are bold assert that our readers have never met a real specimen the race. There is not to be found ...

... enthusiast and' kissed close, must have been in the state of those of the Children in the Wood after they had eaten their blackberries, or have resembled those of a schoolboy who has been sucking Spanish licorice.—Punch. Match-making is Paris.—The Ami de ...

... your adversary, and if sticks and stones are proscribed, the national fist is to the fore, and rusty guns are plenty as blackberries, despite coercion acts. We might undertake to promise Mr. Harbison as pretty fight as he could wish to denounce, at the ...

... to watch over the temporal power. it is believed that signatures to this address would not be quite 44 as plentiful as blackberries, ladies are requested to sign the petition. Napoleon refused to receive the address from the Liberal Italians in Rome ...

... like, with a few potherbs, such as mint majorem, &c. The best fruits being strawberries —probably not carrots (laughter)—blackberries, gooseberries, and raspberries, bilberries and cranberries, nuts, apples, peas, pluma, and cherries—none of them capable ...