... sedgy sunk pool with swans; or children playing catch beside the pond, or watching the waggons go home, or scrambling after blackberries beneath the twisted pines upon the hill-side; or young girls walking home in company after the singing, or dancing to the ...

... 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 ...

... four-anna pieces, and so strong is the demand, that three of these are worth a rupee. British army buttons are as common as blackberries. Even corkscrews are offered for sale in Ta-chienlu, although no one can explain their use. The presence of such miscellaneous ...

... hedge, and were visited by the humble-bees; the broad-leaved burdock flowered by the gateways; and on the brambles the blackberries were formed, though green. The hazel-nuts remained soft and have not yet hardened; on the oaks the round green galls are ...

... Philologists may trace a resemblance between the present provincial word mouching and Shakspeare's m itcher, who ate blackberries. Of the three probably the largest amount of business is done by the local men, on the principle that the sitting gamester ...

... affording a valuable food for pigs. Others seek elderberries to sell for making wine, and for a few weeks a trade is done in blackberries. Chair-menders and basket-makers frequent the shore of the little mere or lake looking for bulrushes and flags: the old ...

... going to begin now. With a slight change in Falstaff's words they would each and all say, If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would receive no reason upon compulsion, I. It is of no use, therefore, to argue with the Asylums Board. If the garden ...

... woods that grow up into the hills, and turf and moss that spread beneath them, and little hamlets dotting the wayside, and blackberry hedges by the road. There are many little torrents bubbling across the footpath, and these must be crossed on the roughest ...

... woods that grow up into the hills, and turf and moss that spread beneath them, and little hamlets dotting the wayside, and blackberry hedges by the road. There are many little torrents bubbling across the footpath, and these must be crossed on the roughest ...

... birds have gone on breeding until it is literally tout perdreau, partridges being as plentiful in the Champagne plains as blackberries on an English common. As during our day's drive we did not encounter a single gendarme or garde champ~tre, it is the Champenois ...

... twelve, living in Derby, were returning home yesterday by Little Eaton Canal-side from the country, where they had been blackberrying, when the younger accidentally fell into the water. The brother, endeavouring to catch hold of him, also fell in, and both ...

... thirteen, named Thomas Denyer, at Bramley. The complainant said that on Wednesday after- noon he was in a field gathering blackberries, when the prisoner came up and laid claim to the berries he had gathered. A struggle took place between the boys, and the ...