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A SPORT OF KINGS IN A DEMOCRATIC AGE

... is after the bird, which now appears but the size of a sparrow as it makes for dear life for a stunted hedge of thorn and blackberry briars if it can but reach that haven it knows therein safety lies, for its enemy will not follow into covert. The falcon ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1008 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES: THE STOCK EXCHANGE POSITION

... be in the swim. From all parts came anxious inquiries as to what was the right thing to buy, and tips were plentiful as blackberries. Stock Exchange men by the dozen laid in shares for themselves in concerns the very spelling of whose names they were ignorant ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3645 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

CONCERNING MRS. TREE

... they are no more, the now famous actress has told me she looks back to the pleasant rambles by fields and brooks, to the blackberrying and the primrose gatherings, and to the scenes of rural life where, though excitements were few and far between, sweet ...

THE WORLD OF SPORT: RACING NOTES

... and from his work. o O The S win cannot make up my mind over the Lincolnshire Handicaps Handicap. Rumours are thick as blackberries in am icaps. autumn, and it is impossible for one to sift the wheat from the chaff. Laffan is, it is rumoured, being backed ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1389 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE DARK OF THE MOON

... ahead, alert as a young goat to point out something new and strange on the hill-side, or to bring back a handful of purple blackberries, late ripe at these altitudes, to give him pleasure. But you have not been very lonely of late, Joyce, said Silver Sand ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5979 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Place aux Dames

... tore our pinafores and scratched our bare legs in happy carelessness in the pursuit of blackberries and bilberries, whortleberries and wild raspberries. Blackberrying was the children's holiday. Black berry and bilberry-gathering, however, have now become ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1901
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1237 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

SPORTSWOMAN'S PAGE

... with trees at one side and great rocks at the other, in the crevices of which many kinds of ferns were flourishing. As for blackberries they were there in millions, i nd ripe, too but one must be very devoted to this fruit to want to stop and pick them off ...

A RARE BIRD'S EGG

... and brick residences, churches, schools, and hospitals. European vegetables and fruits of all kinds grow well peaches, blackberries, and raspberries are the common fruits of the wayside, backed by hedgerows of beautiful pink wild roses. The forests, ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1902
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1190 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... like to come up to the theatur, when we 've saved a bit of money by all our up- gatherings, for we goes a-gleaning and blackberrying, and we picks sloes from the hedges to make sloe- gin, and we gathers bushels of chestnuts and sells them to the Squire ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6391 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

CIRCULAR NOTES

... perienced a difficulty in finding winners. Tips have been flying about as usual assuredly they have been as plentiful as blackberries and almost equally valuable. That is the worst of Newmarket, as a local trainer remarked to me on Monday; one gets to know ...

The Sportswoman

... with high banks covered with vegetation at either side, the colours beginning to be beautifully vivid and varied. As to blackberries, they are in immense quantities, but by far the greater por tion will never ripen, and those that have succeeded in at ...

MOTOR SPARKS--WEEK

... hundred and sixty-one capable officials will be on duty in the seven controls, while road stewards will be as plentiful as blackberries all along the route and will be on duty for ten hours. With such admirable stage managing the performance should go through ...

Published: Wednesday 24 June 1903
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 895 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs