... about his beloved country. had contend against great deal in his district, for the infamious Copperheads were as thick as blackberries, and be often felt as if he would like thrashing man to be a Christian virtue, that he might have the privilege of digging ...

... pent to revisit the scenes of early youth, so fondly remembered, to ramble in the woods where of old we gathered nuts and blackberries, or saunter on the village green, where joined in childish sports, or heard— The watchdog’s voice, that bayed the whispering ...

... Bth of September was a great day in Rome. It was the fete of the Madonna. These fetes of the Madonna are as plentiful as blackberries, but this was one par excellence. It was, too, the great fair day of Grotto Ferrata, whither multitudes go to while away ...

... powerful, grand, good, wise, and every way best Majesty that ever was or will be—if Queens of Sheba were as plentiful as blackberries, and succeeded somebody somewhere every day. It was, indeed, a tender and a queenly thought to think so low down as to ...

... the racks in the world, I would not tell yon on compulsion. Give you reason ou compulsion ! If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give man reason compulsion I! This is the disregard daring and defiance. But there is, after all, a species of ...