DISTRICT NEWS

... the wealth of the Bank of England) could nothave purchased more propitious weather. The spectators were as plentiful as blackberries; and for' has the amse there were boating-the punt chase afford- ing considerable delight from the adroitness of the man ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1871
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6489 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

A FRIENDLY INVASION

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THf INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
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HARVEST FESTIVAL AT BARROW GURNEY

... trailed over the top and sides, and along the base were laced flowers, evergreens, clemnatis, and barley, with clusters of a blackberries at intervals; while a couple of bouquets of choice flowers stood in the centre flanking a miniature wheat-sheaf. I hb effect ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1871
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE AHMPSTEAD SMALL-POX HOSPITAL

... were in the handwriting of Bentley. At one time the founda- tion of a wall gave way, and several boys got out and went blackberrying, but it was immediately stopped up. The clothes of Elizabeth Beaue had disappeared and he could account for that in no ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1871
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1203 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HAMPSTEAD SMALLPOX HOSPITAL

... the ground was fenced round. There 8Vas one time that the foundation, or' a part, -gave -Way, and a few boys went out blackberrying; but it - Was immediately stopped up. The clothes of 'Eliza- - beth Bellue had disapperead, but witness cauld not -s'ccount ...

Published: Sunday 12 November 1871
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1735 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WIT AND HUMOUR

... this spoon was dirty. Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was smrripe, one said it was ?? to call them blackberries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are ?? World of Wit ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1871
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

HULL CHURCH INSTITUTE

... life during the three years he had the honour to serve on his personal staff. Anecdotes of the duke were as plentiful as blackberries, and many books had been written to record his sayings and doings, some of which reminded him of a reply made to a compiler ...

Published: Friday 08 December 1871
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 3070 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... the coral reefs. Two gentlemen, passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call them blackberries when they were red. Don't you know, said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green. I A LEARNED ...

Published: Saturday 09 December 1871
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2665 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

... those who sub- stitute the form, fashion, and language of politenessfor its substance acrl its feeling. Life is a field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while genius, proud, and perpen- ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1871
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1725 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR [ill] CONTEMPORARIES

... last tiverlgf years. This is strange, becanuse we can re. Menmber political allusions of a satirical description teD; as blackberries ?? the last fourteen years, and te ,ewonderfnllf scare this season. Moreover, there !t ' letter of Mdr. Donne in the Era ...

Published: Sunday 14 January 1872
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1149 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

NEWS FROM PARIS

... rabid Legitimist, rally- ing on this head to the few Red Re- publicans who supported M. Naquet. Among reasons, plentiful as blackberries, why the proposition was neither expedient nor prac- ticable, there was this one, that the ex-Emperor, after the sale at ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1872
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 865 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE DIFFICULTY

... popularity. But they won't make Enaland budge. Now-a-days big words are as common, and happily they produce as little effect, as blackberry leaves. If the Anmericmn Lation should persist in the mysterious delusion that England trembles before it, it jiu FXOY9Q- ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2539 | Page: 3 | Tags: News