... but we have not been troubled with than at all. The wild fruit, such as grapes, figs, plums, strawberrie s, and immense blackberries are very abundant. I intend growing cotton and maize chiefly, as they are the staple commodities here. The soil is rather ...

... things and leads does not know that these expressions are common as autumn blackberries among the organs of Liberationist principles, and are devoured as greedily as blackberries by the rank-and-file of their supporters? Yet what well-informed Churchman ...

... for ten harvest ham'., did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a c alico dress, practised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime. Horace Walpole ...

... 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 ...

... beads, but on the beads a pattern in wool work is done by interlacing the work in and through the beads. One pair I saw had blackberries and leaves in beads, made separately, and afterwards attached to the other coarse kind of bead work. The particular work ...

... minute (I mean no pun), and the gallant captain was going along as cheerily as if horses of his calibre were as plentiful as blackberries, or, like the Indian nabob, he could order round more 17st. bunters to the door at pleasure. The hounds after this went ...