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LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... in rare varieties of ferns and mosses and as for pre-historic antiquities, dolmens, and so on, they are as plentiful as blackberries. You have not yet seen the Bride Stones or the Witches' Round Why, they are the lions of Braekenbury The Witches' Round ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1880
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5147 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel: THE DARK-FOLK

... stooping under a bundle of cut furze or a horde of shy little flaxen-polled savages beating the bushes in quest of a few late blackberries but sometimes they went for two or three miles without encountering a soul. More than once, a covey of partridges rose ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1880
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 3698 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... everything. I am so worried The children Oh yes, the children are all right. I've sent them to hunt up blackberries for a blackberry pudding. Blackberries are over, of course but they don't know that, and it keeps them out of the way. And Mr. Pennefeather ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1880
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 7356 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET: HOW KITTY WORE HER CROWN

... sing. That was another occupation. Then I used to ride with the boys, or sometimes we would go fishing, or nutting, or blackberrying oh there was plenty to do, and the days were never too long. A better education than most ladies can show, he replied ...

Published: Saturday 05 March 1881
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4260 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

TURFIANA

... Cressida (dam of Priam) and Eleanor, winner of the Derby and Oaks (dam of Muley), while other good names are plentiful as blackberries in his generalogy, and all this for the mere asking. We hope to see Mr. Eyke in his usual place again at Doncaster next ...

DOROTHY FORSTER

... they are all on the wrong side, like Lady Crewe herself. Have you no cousins among the Whigs? Cousins I had, plenty as blackberries, but all were honest Tories. Stay, there was one but I had never seen her. She was Mary Clavering, who made a great match ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1884
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5899 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

... was an elevated green spot surrounded by an ancient square earthwork earthworks square, and not square, were as common as blackberries hereabout a spot whereon the Caster- bridge people usually held any kind of merry-making, meeting, or sheep-fair that required ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1886
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 6451 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

RURAL NOTES

... trees have been killed for miles, and the leaves withered and torn even behind the first row of blighted life and growth. Blackberries are late and small, nor are the nuts good. On the farm threshing continues to take up a good deal of time, for farmers ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1887
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1484 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

THAT UNFORTUNATE MARRIAGE

... tradesman in a first- rate way of business She had only to pick and choose. Humph Honest tradesmen are not as plentiful as blackberries, though, observed Mr. Weatherhead, reflectively. Mrs. Dobbs ignored this parenthesis, and went on: It was a bad day for ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1888
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5793 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

IN THE TIME OF THE VINTAGE

... find myself in a country road, bounded on one side by fields of maize with their irrigating^ streams, and on the other by a blackberry-laden and flower-decked hedge. Farther on, in the distance, to the right, are the neighbouring hills, richly clothed with ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1888
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1806 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... winner of a steeple chase. 4. JACAMAR, bay gelding, aged, by Cardinal York out of Seliy Oalc winner of steeplechases. 5. BLACKBERRY, black mare, aged, by Welling- tonia. 6. HIGHSPRING, 7 years, by St. Leger; winner of jumpingprize Dublin Horse Show, 1SSS; ...

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... winner of a steeple chase. 4. JACAMAR, bay gelding, aged, by Cardinal York out of Selly Oak winner of steeplechases. 5. BLACKBERRY, black mare, aged, by Welling- tonia. 6. HIGHS PRING, 7 years, by St. Leger; winner of jumping prize Dublin Horse Show, ...