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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 

Flotsam and Jetsam

... yet, o' the pity o t those robbers of the Exchequer, those honest thieves, are as numerous—well, not quite so numerous blackberries, or as the hairs of your head, or the sands of the sea shore; but they are a substantial crowd for all that. How happy ...

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 ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1880
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3775 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

Idleness no Lonobb Fashionable. -Twenty years iDLENtsB d were synonymous ago. says Society, a man anaiw« J m• ..

... Kxchange. Military swells keep hotels under the thin disguise of proprietary clubs; while honourable* and baronets, thick blackberries on bush, try to eke out a living by the sale wines, spirits, store groceries, and pickles, wholesale aud retail. Well-bred ...

THE GLOBE, WEDNESDAY; MAT 5. 1880

... realistic, are the flowers of a poisonous species onion) and the straggling white heather, there is the blooming gorse, the blackberry, the hawthorn, and all that are accustomed see those familiar tracts of land in dear old England. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1880
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1214 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GAIETY THEATRE

... best ; things present, worst. The revival in this age of table-turning and spiritualism, when ghosts are as plentiful as blackberries, of a drama abounding in spectres, apparitions, and all kind of super- natural agencies, is at all events opportune. Besides ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1880
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1047 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTF.S BY THE WAY

... Exchange. Military swells keep hotels under the thin di;guise of proprietary clubs ; while honourables and baronets, thick as blackberries on a bush, try to eke out a living by the sale of wines, spirits, store groceries, and pickles, wholesale and retail. Wed-bred ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1880
Newspaper: Essex Weekly News
County: Essex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1057 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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 

MISSIONARY WORK IN .11[SDAGASOIR. LIMAN •T asap.. On Monday Mr. Abraham lecture in the F B o Reading, on life

... there were pine-apples, oranges, lemons, peaches, mangoes, mulberries, cape goomberries, rose-apples, wild raspberries and blackberries. Tobacco was also grown in the island• and after the leaf had been powdered the people sucked it, retaining it in the mouth ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1880
Newspaper: Reading Observer
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1872 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

I>' .-KK'iT/. HERALD, SATgBDAX MAY 8. ld«0 HOLIDAY AND A DISCOVERY. [rtmt •OClirT.*] Yes it to be bar holiday- *U

... why it is—yes, declare why it is dear little Paolo himself. Good gracious I baa strayed away down here alone to look lor blackberries, doubt; and as .he spoke she rushed forward, and seizing the child by th. skirt drew it beck from the perilous edge over ...

1137ARESBOROUGH roger. MAPTJRDAY. MAY 8, 1580

... is—yes, I declare —why it is dear little Paolo himself. Good graoione the has strayed away down here alone to look for blackberries, no doubt; and as she spoke she rushed forward;and seizing the child by tihe skirt drew it back from the perilous edge ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1880
Newspaper: Knaresborough Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6114 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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 ...