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... by Sterne, by Walter Scott, by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown, and by many other British writers of recog- nised position. Blackberry, as to which Air Bartlett says that this term is universally used in the United States for the English brambleberry, has ...

FASHIONS

... unbecoming, tilted over the eyebrows, so that the wearer can see nothing above her boot tips, and trimmed with cherries or blackberries hanging feebly downwards, or, worse still, woollen lumps which resemble nothing in nature. A becoming hat or bonnet of ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1389 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds ,us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

NEW LOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... observation, but it renders a confirmed habit more and more easy of performance. Plots of a sort are to be found thick as blackberries in the odd or terrible incidents of the life that surrounds us. Now that a certain methodical fluency has been attained ...

THE CATO DRAMATIC CLUB

... he possessed the istinet of an actor, but requires a world of study to make what tatlenIt he has avail- able. Mr James as Blackberry had that limp, creeping, dis- jointed, hroken-backed style which so many amateurs adopt when they play comic countrymseet ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LONDON IN THE JACOBITE TIME.*

... that the author of Robinson Crusoe was one of the most pitiful scoundrels of a time when spies and traitors were like blackberries. The present strike of the London masons, however much to be deplored, is not, at any rate, so unjustifiable as that of ...

LONDON IN THE THE JACOBITE TIMES

... that the author of Robinson Crusoe was one of the most pitiful scoundrels of a time when spies and traitors were like blackberries. The present strike of the London masons, however much to be deplored, is not, at any rate, so unjustifiable as that of ...

FASHIONS FOR JUNE

... or spray Of fioweta is Placetl at the side. Tlhese hats are belf-shaped. 'with very little brim, Clusters of cherries, blackberries. and other fruits ate also fashionable upon hats. Bat the most elegant, as well as mosk expensive ornament, is th e palme ...

THE AUGUST MAGAZINES

... Pretty yellow cinque-foil creeps along the lanes, in whichi the coutless branble-blossoms protoiso a rich sciiprlv of blackberries. The dewberry, too, is in blos-\ot. T'ite evening priauraise still drops its shlivelled petals at nitno, to dlecl itself ...

LITERATURE

... , seek for blackberries, and collected no small store. Oliver, stretching upward to a branch beyond Janey's reach, paused suddenly to laugh and to ask, as he turned the ripe branch towards her, Janey, do you recollect those blackberries? Oh yes ...

LITERATURE

... stately lines. The ploughman, guiding his horses between the trees, seems to be travelling ofi to the next county. Here also, blackberry and strawberry, pear and raspberry, spread wide-in the mild and sunay air, growing up to new stateliness, or covering the ...

LITERATURE

... contained o ?sea-water' at ' Got any more, mate P 1 asked one of them looking m. round. Ly, There's a dozen more, behind that blackberry bush, said Joshua, with the calmness of despair. n- They searched; they lugged them all oat, they bored en the gimlet into ...