... sustained, and it is not to be wondered at that so far they have proved unsuccessful. The reasons they give are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn; but they have not the candour to acknowledge the true one, which is that Lord Beacopsfield’s Administration ...

... distant pine-woods, and the fresh cool odour of newly ploughed uplands. The sunshine lit up the ragged hedges, where the blackberry leaves still bung, beautiful in their decay, with every variety of tint, from olive green to bronze, from crimson to darkest ...