... the best way they. can, head first or tail first. s Give you reasons upon compulsion ? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would not give you reasons upon compulsion? If Mr Stephen fails to accomplish all his wish, it will be due, we anticipate ...

... prove an alibi for Francis. When one studies the question, proofs, as De Quincey says, rush upon one more plentifully than blackberries; there is a positive plethora of evidence, and one almost begins to wish that the case were less decidedly clear. Mr. Skeat ...

... The scene, as a matter of course, is laid in the highest circles of society. Dukes, princes, and marquises are cheap as blackberries in autumn. The Lady Hilda twice refuses to marry the hereditary Prince of Deutschland. The artistic taste of the company ...

... , seek for blackberries, and collected no small store. Oliver, stretching upward to a branch beyond Janey's reach, paused suddenly to laugh and to ask, as he turned the ripe branch towards her, Janey, do you recollect those blackberries? Oh yes ...

... as well as Raphael Mendoza himself could have done it. There once was a time when heroes of this sort were as common as blackberries, but of late years they have all but disappeared, possibly in consequence of the disuse of wet towels. At any rate it is ...