THE EXAMINER'S LETTER BOX

... that there are no competent dramatists. Be it understood that I am not saying that a dramatist is to be picked up like a blackberry off a hedge when those fruits are in season. Such a man will be a rara avds (pardon that miserable scrap of Latin from a ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1879
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2557 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... readiness to try his hand on the horn of plenty. Jean Paul says we should be as little ashamed of innocent joys as of blackberries, although after the enjoyment they leave a black stain on the mouth. Blurther'- Yea, said an Irish gentleman, that ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2130 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MULTUM IN PARVO

... sheet-lead. Perhaps it was the same man who saw tin a 'white blackbird sitting on a wooden mile-stane th n-eatino a red blackberry. el er Cardinal Manning, the Times says, will leave ?? er England for Rome early in February, at the special ai er ivtoathen ...

Published: Monday 20 January 1879
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1972 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

NURSING

... it is too well kneon that there are many of 1 them still left, arid that good useful nurses are not so I plentiful as blackberries, but nearly as soaree as figs on a thietles. To a meeting in London, his Grace the Duke of 0 Westminster in the ebair, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 January 1879
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1736 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

The Garden

... undulates into heathery waves, broken by clumps of gorse on rocky mounds, sheltered by prickly hawthorn or trailing sprays of blackberry; where undulating meadows, cleft into many a sheltered hollow, roll gracefully saway as far as the eye can reach; where ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE DRINKING-SHOPS IN MALTA

... of Valletta there are 894. In Strada Forni, Strada Sant'Anua. ?? San Nicole, Strad~i Mereanti they are as thick 1et as blackberries on our English hedges in Autumn. It ;t. is no exaggeration, surely, to say that the supply far 3nj exceeda thle legitimate ...

Published: Tuesday 04 March 1879
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 3053 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

The Farm

... many millions more than it receives what will be the ultimate consequence ? Sovereigns do not grow upon the hedges like blackberries, nor can Bank of England notes be had without a proper equivalent. 'Thenr if we keep sending away tons of gold snore than ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 6874 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE AMATEUR POACHER

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2664 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 15

... tbe collector lived it was one mau's business to forge, autographs in old e theological b books (which ,ere as oo ommon a blackberries) and another *pesou's businees to act as m iddleman and soll 'the wares. So at least says the gossipof 'the lbok m erkit ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1879
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7472 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

A SQUEAK FROM THE STABLE MOUSE

... great and free people. WThen these fail, but not before, then will nincompoops on the Turf cease to be as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. But now, Dr. Carver like, to send a bullet straight to the ball of glass. What will win the Derby on Wednesday ...

Published: Sunday 25 May 1879
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 841 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... this year will be at least 20 per c(rt. heavier. Strawberries are the largest proportion of the small Uis. 'The others are blackberries and raspberries. The season promises t( Ile late as regards strawberries, but not so with peaches in the southern ,rd of ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2839 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... year will be at least 20 per cert. heavier. Strawberries are the largest proportion of the small fbuits. The others are blackberries and raspberries. The season promises to be late as regards strawberries, but not so with peaches in the southern erd of ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1879
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2819 | Page: 11 | Tags: News