... Great things were sttempted, but little or nothing was done. Promises of great achievement were rife ai plentiful as blackberries in autumn, whilst corresponding performances were few and scant as grapes on gooseberry bushes ! How such a bad, even wretched ...

... completed in the granting of Commission of the Peace for the borough. We are waiting the men, and here they are as thick as blackberries. We can put our hands upon an embryo Justice of the Peace anywhere when wanted. The difficulty in selection. We are to ...

... Gazette. Sib, —In his last letter Mr. Stroyan makes up in volubility what lacks in nrgnment. Words we have, plentiful as blackberries, but we look in vain for tittle of evidence to justify the claim set by the Liberationists of the ri,jht to seize and ...

... Advertiser. Sir, —In his last letter Mr. Stroyan makes up in volubility what he lacks in argument. Words have plentiful blackberries, but look in vain for a tittle of evidence to justify the claim set by the Liberationists of the right to seize and conliscate ...

... skin is off but one side. There was no fear of their becoming bilious, for they had to ask a blessing and then attack the blackberries —(laughter);—vegetarians by compulsion laughter.) Cornwall .was very different to-day, for he had been there recently, ...

... First-ciass Journalists.- is say that first-class journali ts, in whatever party look for them, are not as plentiful as blackberries. If consider what such a man ought to be, we shall overwhelmed with the multiplicity its requirments. He must be good scholar ...

... Journalists. —It is needless to sa that first-class journalists, in whatever party wo look for them, are not as plentiful as blackberries. If we consider what such man ought to be, we shall be overwhelmed with the multiplicity of his requirements. He must be ...

... On Monday Annie Elizabeth Killingbeck, of Dukestreet, Huddersfield, nine years old. daughter of tailor, while gathering blackberries, fell down the railway cutting at Springwood, depth of 42 feet. being taken to the Huddersfield Infirmary it was found ...

... these tributes of the muse we never do so wantonly, without sufficient reasons ; but, though reasons were as plenty as blackberries, it does not follow that they would interest the public convince and console the disappointed bard. Neither does it follow ...

... supposed to be so scarce that one carried round the country in a glass case would quite a show—turn out to be as plenty as blackberries, we can be sure of nothing. For anything we know to the contrary, there may be a silent change taking place on questions ...

... Tory Chairman; he has a good precedent for declining to give reasons upon compulsion, and, if they were as plenty as blackberries, he would need them all to justify such course as the gentlemen on the Conservative side have unwillingly, t,o doubt ...

... Sir Walter S ott, by Thomas Hsghes, in Tom Brown, and *y a great many other British writers of recognisec position. ' * Blackberry, to which Mr. Bartlett says that this term universally used in the United 8 ates for the English brambleberry, has been ...