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... with in light comedies. To ask for heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us like asking for black- ness in a blackberry, or sweetuess in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight t0 the characters he personates. ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1801 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HANDYBOOD FOR CARD POST

... thet match, and are afraid she will elbpe:-` Clovelly seeinp lovel. Will Arthllr think Clara's hat exceedingly droll P Blackberries unusually tempting. Cousins of Miunio'El expecled'. Key-the first three letters of the first word, the fitst two of the ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1188 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CONFERENCES IN THE DIOCESE OF RIPON

... died on Monday last. On the 4th of September the deceased went to Ashworth lVood, in company with other boys, to gather blackberries. A oat jumped out of some busrles, and the boys chased it. John Jones caught it, and another boy struck it with a stick ...

Published: Friday 14 October 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5959 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

District News

... abundant. The fruit produce, however, is deficient in some respects. Apples, pears, plums, and gooseberries, currants, and blackberries are scarce, owing to the cold season; ; but strawberries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and other wall fruit, where sheltered ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1871
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 11710 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

General home News

... is nQW exceedingly rich in autumnal wild flowers and berries, and on the little girl pointing to a tempting cluster of blackberries the nurse tried to reach them, and fell over the cliff, Fortunately her fall was broken by an elder tree, where she was ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1871
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 4683 | 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 

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 

FROM A LONDON CORRESPONDENT

... arthumberland, and Marlborough are among them. But hle Marquises and the lower orders of the Peerage are I plent.fal as blackberries, there is a remarkable absence Members of the HOuse of Commons. There are but a, I think, and the most distiiguished is ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2049 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

YORKSHIRE RAMBLES

... meadows, while above tower the brown fells. The roads were lined with hedgerows, gay with hips and haws, and elder and blackberries. In the hedge bottoms were pretty wild flowers, and amongst the stones and walls grew stitchwort, polypodu, and other ferns ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4036 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

YORKSHIRE RAMBLES

... the quiet beauty which surrounds him. Enough wild flowers are still to be found to make up a bouquet, and the fruit of the blackberry retains its flavour. It is almost difficult to realise that but a few hours previously the Rambler was dismayed with the ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4016 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

IRISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

... persons by t whom the title is conferred. Should I this bill ever become law D.D.'s and e B.D.'s will be as plentiful as blackberries, I mand, so far from a scholastic title in divinity being coveted, it will be shunned by men of real learning and worth ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1873
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 3621 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE WEEK'S CHAPTER OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

... Thursday afternoon. The accident arose from causes over which the Company have no control whatever. The lad was getting blackberries, with two others, when he incautiously went across the line. The express was coming up at the time, and the driver seeing ...

Published: Friday 05 September 1873
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 2311 | Page: 3 | Tags: News