... alive for years. The Recorder immediately proceeded to yet more unpopular measures. Barristers were not then as common as blackberries; there were no Englandreturned men—only a small knot of English barristers who conspired to levy exorbitant fees. Sir ...

... favourable conditions, has sometimes been ruined through impatience alone, golden opportunities are not as plentiful as blackberries. With the best of intentions people have sometimes sacrificed their cause through ill-judged methods. We have reached a ...

... a spring quick-coming and short, a long dry summer, a home of the barley, the wheat, the rye, the oat, the apple, the black-berry, the onion, the lentin and the pease. In tracing the course of the migration he also considers where water could have been ...