... cost rich men nothing, they conveved her to Clark's drug store, where, with awkwardness, they forced her to swallow some blackberry brandy. She slowly unclosed her eyes, and when asked how eh* felt, replied, with groat bitterness, 'Very well; I crave nothing ...

... a professor. If, however, he had been a mere professor, no one would have minded him much, for prigs are as common as blackberries in this and every other country. But it so happened that he was a prig who had the knack of writing uncommonly good English ...

... tell their mothers: Come and listen to their plea. The sky 's a heavenly blue above the hillside, There are hazel-nuta and blackberries in the lane; There are roach amongst the rushes by the mill-side, There is gleaning still amongst the golden grain. But ...

... 6 209 Edward VI. are as plentiful with him as blackberries in autumn lanes; and as for foreign dukes and princes, they trip off his tongue as glibly as the letters of the alphabet. He has been hand-in-glove with all the great notabilities of the day ...

... Woodnymph's dress, as described in this book, is quite poetic: Green tulle evening dress, trimmed with leaves, wild flowers, blackberries, hips, acorns, (1,7 c. forming a fringe round the train or tunic; a bird nestling here and there. It would have to be ...