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... once and again; creating 150 new Peers or more if necessary, till Lords shall become as common and cheap in England as the blackberries on the hedges; or even, as a last extremity, I will vote for, and will support with all my power, as a member of the House ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2090 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RIFLE PRACTICE. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—After the battalion drill on Saturday afternoon, 'our Commandant made very ..

... body of the members nothing else but a prohibition of the use of the rirle. Did your space permit, reasons plentiful as blackberries could be adduced why the present regulation should be withdrawn, while none can be urged in its defence, unless it be that ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE FIFESHTRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1860

... With tint I lad myself down by hers and clinched kin—and such a Idss—talk about your about per madames — talk about tier blackberry Joni —you couldn't ham mot unto come nigh 'em, they would all a tasted f urso aster that. Has daddy hadn't hollered out ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1860
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 10020 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE FIFESHIRE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1860,

... besides scarlet petticoats, and well-fitting Balmoral boots ; and the qualities which make it so pleasant for cousin Jack to o blackberry-hunting are not alwa those which ensure the comfort and respectability of a home, or tend to the refinement and noble nurture ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1860
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 8855 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE IMMORAL COMPROMISE

... ready to be destroyed. When the great transatlantic Republic was set up, theories about the rights of man were plentiful as blackberries. Some of those who took a conspicuous part in throwing off the yoke of the old mother-land were deeply imbued with the ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1393 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... we assign this vile misreading of a line Burns- • ..x- -T«mt ram! had they queens t Queens were never as plentiful as blackberries in Ayrshire but it could turn out many a bevy ?l teens,' ...

Published: Thursday 14 February 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1437 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... we to assign this vile misreading of a line of Burns, '■ Now Taml had they been queensi Queens were never plentiful as blackberries in Ayrshire but it could turn out many a bevy of queans, a' Dizzies in their teens. ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1555 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

... either side, that used to be drawn by a plough-horse, and driven by farmer's wife daughter, pealing whortleberries and blackberries about the town. Their disappearance made him doubt, said, whether the berries had not left off growing in the broad pastures ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3164 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FAMINE IN PERSIA

... ) Daring the past year the breadfruit tree, from the Fiji Islands, the beautiful lace-plant of Madagascar, the Canadian blackberry, and several rare species of pines have been introduced hit the gardens, and are in a thriving state. Sir Heccules Robinson ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1861
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4357 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUR HONEST PREMIER

... retired allowances, and other devices for the extension of out-door relief, are still thick as leaves VaL lanibrosa, or as blackberries in autumn. According to Mr Hume's return, 1849, they amounted then to L.975.849 annually, exclusive of annuities to the ...

Published: Tuesday 30 April 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRANCE AND ENGLAND

... written by the journals that are supposed to represent his opinions. He will, however, find apologies for it, plentiful as blackberries, in the columns of journals, whose deliverances are with him ' if one enquired at the oracle of God. When we said the ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1592 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... grape, the orange, the pomegranate, the fig, and other equally pleasant ami nourishing productions—not the wild haws and blackberries which, even in nature's most prodigal humour, would be all that would fall to the lot of any poor fellow who should take ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2095 | Page: 4 | Tags: none