... houses spring up with wondrous rapidity and flourish amazingly. Private houses of call for courtesans are plentiful as blackberries, and fashionable brothel keepers, ply their horrible trade in the most impudent manner, and in spite of repressive laws ...

... the recess, the imaginative powers of journalists have been taxed for reasons, and they are not quite as plentiful as blackberries, at this season of the year moreover the objection raised by FALSTAFF, when called upon to justify assertion, may hold ...

... commencement of the strike. Theie is, undoubtedly, a very great deal of distress prevailing, and beggars are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. One or two people have had their fowls stolen, which will perhaps teach caution in future. In Merthyr also ...

... pleased to think, it is not my pro- vince to determine. Infidel Radicals are in these davs of general apostacy as thICk, as blackberries. It is refreshing occasionally,for tne sake of variety if for nothing else, to encounter one who is thoroughly orthodox ...

... Llanishen about 250 young and old members of the Mission Church. St John's. A plea- sant day was spent in the fields, gathering blackberries nnd nuts, and on the return of the party to Cardiff, in the evening, a tea was provided for them at St John's Schoolroom ...

... firm si'y; preaching at the rate of twenty ■sermons a week, and if he passed .through Ln inhospitable region, thanking blackberries were plentiful, WESLEY hint- .self set an example of fortitude, perseve- rance, and confidence in the Divine blessing ...

... directed them to believe, they are now bent upon 4.1 enquiring within, and seek for reasons, which if not so plentiful as blackberries, may readily be found, though not always, per- haps, to be given, as FALSTAFF said, upon compulsion. In the case of ...

... tion. His fancy is flaying riot with his reason and reckless ARE? as FALSTAFF says, as plentiful (tS blackberries. His imagination, or his di is evidently diseased, and he believe the phantasies of an over-fervid and brain to be substantial realities ...

... his companions sauntered across the new railwav embankment, towards the Water- loo Junction, and crossed a hedge to get blackberries. They were then in Channing's field, and the elder Chan- ning ordered Shiels to leave the field. He did so, but made use ...

... directed them to believe, they are now bent upon enquiring within, and seek for reasons, which if not so plentiful as blackberries, may readily be found, though not always, per- haps, to be given, as FALSTAFF said, upon compulsion. In the case of ...

... untruthful nature of the greater part of the so-called anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, which were as plentiful as blackberries. He detailed an amusing incident which occurred in Brussels, at the time the Duke was staying there. He and a companion ...

... revived an old form of murder. In the grim old days, when gas had not been invented, and ghost stories were as common as blackberries, and were, indeed, seriously believed, it was common for murderers to cut up the remains of their victims and bury them ...