... Catholics of all shades in politics. The clergy are naturally well represented, and bishops in black and purple as thick as blackberries. His Eminence, attired'in'full red cAnonicals, is an imposing figure, and owing to his never forgetting a face once seen- ...

... princess, and insisted on being addressed as your Excellelicy. We have a-notion at home that addressed as abound like blackberries in the month of September. It .rusia pricse peussia t Russians hoid a different opinion but that is a detail. So our a ...

... a million or so, especially on heavy settling day's, would seem to be a matter of course, if not quite as plentiful as blackberries. A fesv years ago the Manchester Ship Canal Company, when buying out the Bridgwater Trustees, drew one cheque for a million ...

... foot of Barnet Hill to the Elstree road, near Barnet Gate, where, like Old Hum- phrey, the cyclist may regale himself with blackberries at this season. Crossing the Elstree road, a picturesque winding descent, intersecting open commonis, leads to, Shenley ...

... beings in this charmed district who were vide awake-picking forget-me-nots on the shady side of the road, and big, juicy blackberries on the sunny side. It is very strange this road should still keep ascending, my brother remarked, when after five hours ...

... bring up from the tips along the canal side all the available boulders that could be laid hold of, and navvies thick as blackberries were spread out over the huge mounds, raking out all the stones they could find. Hundreds of waggon loads were thus obtained ...

... Lethbridge on this best of all possible worlds, in which stars and garters must seem to some of us to grow as thick as blackberries on the trees. The Budget resolution passed just on the stroke of twelve and after rapidly pas ing through the Lords' amendments ...

... daimn mysterious dells, such bliss of running streamn, such freedoma of wide- spread sunny pastures, where blackberries are thick as blackberries should c.;: such magic of lonesome ferny nooks, where, hidden and silent, a clear, dltrk well suddenly makes ...

... Councils willing, to risk public money in buySing, nothing can happen, though would- be yeomen farmers were as plentiful as blackberries. A year ago Parlia- ment was equally busy over the Irish Land Purchase Bill, but now it is assumed as a matter of course ...

... clergyman correspondent of a contemporary writes from Oriel describing spring walik through a Buckinghamshire lane, arched by blackberry bushes dcc. A robin Jew round his hat several times. It claimed his attention, and he followed it to a spot in the hedge ...

... Oxford. They are canny folk at St. Asaph, and hold their Diocesan Conference not when such gatherings are plentiful as blackberries and there is no chance of notice in the papers, but in the dullest period of the year. The gathering at Bala this week ...

... we were in the midst of lovely woods, clambering the steep hill-side. Or else we would wander along the roads, picking blackberries from the full hedges ; past orchards innumerable and tiny villages ablaze with bright flowers. Anid wherever we went we ...