LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... 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 ...

LORD BRACKENBURY: A Novel

... ng. 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 ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... and there are h ldyt, mulitues of bad teachers. Pedantic pedagogues, of in 'sthe Dlr.B~limber cass re As plentiful as blackberries, and ho the mill~horo system of education is still in vogue. Over, a crammed students rarely tarn out well, while those ...

YORKSHIRE ART EXHIBITION

... the brush with such de- light as a child might have in daubing paint about. The e Proving of the Pattern (273), and Blackberry r Gatherers (2S3-F. W. Topham), possess great beauty, 1 both of colour and grouping. The first contains sonic i of the ...

THE THEATRES

... that the deceased , I along with other compaeions, had gone to Both- wellshields Brae, for the purpose of gathering ! 'blackberries; and while in the act of doing so, on a precipice near Bothwellshields Farm, he I fell over and sustained a severe fracture ...

AUTUMN EXHIBITION OF PICTURES

... `?naresborcu-h asatle. (J4)hn Finnie), £53; 638, F rimnlas (MissL 669, Tnt Fading Year (Miss Ada Bell), £t; 672, :Blackberry Bilossomn (Miss S. Leighton), £4 4s. ' 688, A Hei'd (Miss B. Coleman), £4 4o.; 708, West Loch, Tarbert (J. 0. Long) ...

THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION, WALKER ART GALLERY

... G. A. Lawson.-Is a very fine bronze figure. No. 1068, Blackberry Picking-The Thornm E. B. Stephens, AJR.A.-A lovely statue of a girl pulling a thorn out of her hand caused by picking blackberries. No. 1069, Colonel Bousfield, and 1070, Mirs. Bousfield ...

OPERA BUFFA, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

... OPERA BUFFA, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. Fior's for opera buffa can scarcely be said to grow on blackberry-bushes. In France even, where dramatic invention measured by the standard of English barrenness seems almost fertile, some difficulty is experienced in ...

AGRICULTURAL SHOWS

... which onehasneverbeen celebrated can lay little claim to prestige or renown. They have become plentiful as the proverbial blackberry, and, strangest thing of all, nobody seems to grow tired of them. Let the weather be but propitious, and there is alwvays ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2064 | Page: 31 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... and other tongues of Europe; and there is no lack of Orientalists and Russian scholars, while Chinese are' as thick as blackberries. But Zulu dictionaries are still unwritten, and Zulu literature cannot be said to attract the masses. The Zulus had danced ...

THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET

... 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 ...

A NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDENT

... and lively men can be termed a Terpid Crew, which is about on a par with a white blackbird, or the Irish definition of blackberries areI always red except when they are green. While such per- i eons are a ma etug over such things I will endeavour ...