... power among English artisans aimost capable of reducing tenpenny nails to pulp. Of course ladies’ tormentors were thick as blackberries ; false noses and outrageous nose-folders marked the busy youth whose excessive energy must find vent somewhere. One r ...

... Doctor is only recognized as sterling when conferred by qualified home institutions. Doctorships hare long been as commou blackberries. Dr. Thomas, of Clapham, writing on American degrees, in repudiation of assertion that ministers, next medieal men, bare ...

... years gone by, eight days the week; and in this way many of you prudently augment your incomes, and make provision for the blackberry season when it comes. Yon may not only this, but the exercise of forethought and economy, and perhaps Uttle'self-denial ...

... Merton; Mrs. Gunn, Miss L. Langley. The concluding farce was Tweedletou’s Tail Coat” —Toby Tweedleton, Mr. 6. Schroeder; Blackberry Thistletop, Mr. E. H. Powell; Barnaby Braeehutton, Mr. R. Edmunds; Pantechnicon Pantile, Mr. E, K. March : Evelina, Miss ...

... will. Pugilistic encounters, dog fights, and the rabble coarseness of country fair in its worst aspects, were as common as blackberries in autumn. But at length the strong arm of the law interfered, and the weekly fair—if such it might be called was abolished ...

... behind it old lane in Bermondsey. Old lanes—judging from outward appearances, at all events cannot quite as numerous there blackberries in summer. Neither are they. Almost the only representative of the former rusticity of Bermondsey exists, it would appear ...

... Correspondent. I'm away the wilds Derbyshire ! This is a happy Imnting-grounJ: deer, partridges, and conies are as thick blackberries in autumn. Probably Master Reynard has a happy family, too; but skulks away from our gaze —and wisely so. There are hundreds ...

... contemptible form of personality is exchanged, regularly occur; insinuations of self-interest and peculation are as common as blackberries autumn; and the most peurile matters, which a committee of three members could settle off-hand, are exaggerated until they ...

... Ridley’s, the east row in lane which led out into the Dulwich fields one side, and was itself full of buttercups in spring and blackberries in autumn. When he was about five years of age, his • father found himself able to buy the lease of the house at Denmark ...

... them yet. , , , .. Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when tue fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call tnem black berries, when they were red. Don’t you know, said his friend. that blackberries are always red when they are green?” The ...

... which have taken any real hold on the world—and these, after all, aro few in number, while fads have been numerous as blackberries in autumn. The aim and scope of this book appears to that analyzing the leading systems, and fetching! to the surface all ...

... simply turned to shake his stick threateningly at the young people, much as he would have done to a village urchin caught blackberrying the wrong side or the hedge. CHAPTER XII. JESSIE MAKES MOKE FRIENDS. The temporary success of Miss Esther Vane at the Theatre ...