LITERATURE

... I our fate's the same If he sball e'er Bnd me or you siok. Compliments to the fair sex are,, of course, as plentiful as blackberries in a Devonehire lane:- The world must now two Venuses adore Ten are the Muses, and the Graces hour. Such Dora's wit, so ...

COMIN' THRO' THE RYE.*

... P ii'i. (in one of the lucid intervals) that the month which is not t ?? PVC , nightingales is a trifle early for ripe blackberries. Wh\ile n:ilx itO l . things, man and wvomnan become creatures of clingin, lips, gici nda shoulders, and veils of rippling ...

THE AMATEUR POACHER

... greengrocers and retailed at a high price. Later the blackberries ripen and form his third great crop; the quantity he brings in to the towns is astonishing, and still there is always a customer. The blackberry harvest lasts for several weeks, as the berries ...

EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... with in light comedies. To ask for a heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us _ like asking for blackness in a blackberry, or sweetness -- in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight to the characters he personates ...

FASHIONS

... unbecoming, tilted over the eyebrows, so that the wearer can see nothing above her boot tips, and trimmed with cherries or blackberries hanging feebly downwards, or, worse still, woollen lumps which resemble nothing in nature. A becoming hat or bonnet of ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1389 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LOCAL SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE AND ART

... Cecilia ,uxnm enassrce panel; Caroling Gillman, Sepia;twvo reliefs e by iodion,; EmesaLong, Sepia,' fromn the 'cast of blackberries, also some capital elementa~ry desiuns in cslour; Mlartin hu'rlant,: antique figutre dancing fawvn, in chl3k, also outtline ...

VARIETIES

... with sheet-lead. Perhaps it al was the same man who saw a white blackbird sitting on a 38 wooden mile-stone, eating a red blackberry. [e A swell, while being measured for a pair of boots t, observed, Make them cover the calf. Impossible l ex- t.. claimed ...

FASHIONS

... brims are much worn. A very pretty trimming for them consists of a black velvet bow and ends to fasten a wreath of ivy, blackberry blossom, and fruit. Wild flowers and fruit are much used for trimming straw hats and bonnets. The cavalier- shape hat in ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1651 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds ,us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

NEW LOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITY GATE

... a field, with lovely green grass, dotted with the i brightest and most beautiful flowers, and studded with hawthorn and blackberry bushes, in which the birds gaily carolled from early morning to dewy eve. The only birds now in the neighbourhood are s ...

WOMAN'S WRONG

... trees, &c., until she is as healthy and brown and active as any mother might desire. Their last exploit included a day's blackberry bunting, an expedition to a neighbouring fair, and a misadventure after- wards in consequence of assisting themselves on ...