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ROUND ABOUT A GREAT ESTATE.—XVI

... winter in the stress of the sharp and continued frosts the greenfinches were driven in December to swallow the shrivelled blackberries still on the brambles. The fruity part of the berries was of course gone, and nothing remained but the seeds or pips, dry ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1880
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1684 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

IELECTORAL NOTES. ; ---I

... Guest, is a query we leave the Cardiff Tories to solve. Those kind of statements, however, have been as plenti- ful as blackberries of late, and are to be taken cu .n grano salis. THE IRISH VOTE IN CARDIFF. If we are to credit the Irishmen orators who ...

Published: Wednesday 07 April 1880
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BUKIEDALIVE

... Guest, is a query we leave the Cardiff Tories to solve. Those kind of statements, however, have been as plenti- ful as blackberries of late, aud are to be taken cum grano salis. THE IRISH VOTE IN CARDIFF. If we are to credit the Irishmen oraton who have ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1880
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2574 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ELECTION JOTTINGS.!

... brought about on the 1st day of April, when, in full view of black eyes, broken noses, :1lId cracked heads, as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, on all sides, and amid the crash of thousands of smashed windows, and a tumult which frightened their wives ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1880
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2329 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Political

... He is not exactly like Falstaff, yo after the rdhbery at Gadshill, who protested that if ho reasons were as plenty as blackberries he would not A1 give them; hut he is quietly and proudly confident lei that he has at last achievejl scone power in the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 April 1880
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3253 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE PRESENT LAW OF DISTRAINT AND ITS EFFECTS

... which, as the law at present stands, prevents their cultivation, although large 'tpracsts of laud. nowi only. bearing blackberries and firze might be made marhket-garde'ns, LAND SURVEYOR. ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1880
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 614 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EXTRACTS FROM THIS WEEK'S PUNCH

... The Government have been beaten all oves the country bv an overwhelnhiug majority. Reasons for this are as3 aplenty as blackberries. Among them we may mention those of A KEEN POLITICAL OnrEasvEs.- Because the weather hls been dead against them all along ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1880
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 582 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR E. J. REED, C.D., M.P

... ranks and degrees joining in the service, but no other worshippers. Confessional boxes for all languages were as thick as blackberries, but there were neither priests nor penitents to be seen. We were attracted to a large bronze figure of St. Peter by seeing ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1880
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4276 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

... ranks and degrees joining in the service, but no other worshippers. Confessional boxes for all languages were as thick as blackberries, but there were neither priests nor penitents to be seen. We were attracted to a large bronze figure of St. Peter by seeing ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1880
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4310 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE NEW PROVINCIALISM

... long ago a daily newspaper was unheard of im any but the very largest country towns ; now sach papers are as common as blackberries, while all the larger towns have their halfpenny evening papers as well, which make thQ London press almost superfluoas ...

Published: Tuesday 20 April 1880
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1210 | Page: 4 | Tags: News