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... the park to look at the pheasant chicks. Now you wave your hand and smile to them, my dear Millions like his don't grow on blackberry-bushes, though I 've known the day when no country family would look at an American Mary was definitely shocked. If life ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2237 | Page: 54 | Tags: Illustrations 

Week after Week

... told to. And now the leader cries, Look out for the brambles, whereupon, having gingerly held aside a particularly whippy blackberry branch, he lets it swing back with all the impetus of which it is capable into the face of the man behind him, who does ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1760 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

A LETTER FROM PARIS: Autumn, 1933

... one-around the shoulders, one at the hem at the back. Some shoulder capes edged with fox on cloth coats, these latter of the blackberry colour, black or sage green with shiny satin gowns to match, cleverly cut with long tight sleeves and an air of delusive ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1933
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3406 | Page: 88 | Tags: Illustrations 

EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY

... consistency of a dog biscuit (three potatoes between two, and they were small ones, and sprouting), half a tin of jam said to be blackberry and apple, and a couple of litres of vin ordinaire, one white and the other red, mixed in a tin mug. A Lyorinaise gunner ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4423 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Sun KING: A Boy and Girl Romance by the banks of the Elbe

... gets too cold, we we must swim we must walk miles and miles as we used to do the wild nuts will soon be ready. And the blackberries. Next Sunday then all day just you and I Listen. Next Sunday we can't. My aunt is coming here to see you and she has already ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1933
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5288 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

How Sanderleys came to Sampits: The Romance of a Tinker's Love and a Lost Inheritance

... her velvet riding habit, which in her fall had loosened and billowed around her. The thorny penetrating arms of the dead blackberry had pushed their way beneath her skirts and torn her stockings (for she was wearing, not the high riding boots of the period ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9155 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations