... the military point of view. He lived and worked in the Forties when survivors of the famous fight were as plentiful as blackberries, and he had the happy thought of writing to them to ask them to tell him all they knew. He treated them as wi nesses, and ...

... rot among the leaves, and no one as much looks at them. But Luke makes his children, when they have done gathering the blackberries which darken million thickets, and threaten to over run the woods, collect the crab apples too ; for his wife has discovered ...

... dramatic critics of repute in every Government office, and men who are journalists after four o'clock are as plentiful as blackberries. How ii lieginninK may have a prreat cniiiiiK is toM in Commissioner Johnston’s lilue-Book on P.riti>li Central Africa ...

... >nts ate perfectly helpless, and that this small handful of nuns may outrage public opinion by planting bodiea aa thick as blackberries in the centre of a populous village. It should be stated that when tbe nunB first p'opoted to bury the corpse, t ey succeeded ...

... words : —** In this bouse Sir Walter Scott lived from 1798 to 1826.” A Laky. —Centenarians no -a -days are as common as blackberries: but a lady who has just celebrated her hundredth birthday at Turin stands out conspicuous among the croud account of her ...

... riding along, each with bosket, and ever and anon making halt, while the riders dismount, gather goodly quantitles of blackberries, and put them into the baskets fixed in front of their cycles. Surely such enjoyments these are good, every way yon look ...

... the ladies' meeting. Great guns were in plenty, with Mr John Morley at the head of the battalion. M.P. were as numerous black-berries. Conspicuous amongst the men on the Town Hall platform were, besides Mr Morley, the Marquis of Ripon, Lord Brassey, Mr ...

... the Merkinch or Clachnaharry, where seafaring men abound. In these quarters of the city sailors grow up as plentifully as blackberries. The boys quite naturally take to fishing for cuddies with a pin-hook, which betrays the true instinct of the British ...

... purpose of blacking his boots. In the southern counties of England it is supposed that he places his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and misfortune is certain befall anyone who attempts to gather them after that day. In all countries ...

... circumstances, and though have not reached whites for city wear, are progres-- ing that way. Straw hats are as common as blackberries, and waistcoats are dispensed with, cummerbund of more or less vivid hue doing duty in its place. It is certainly more ...