A PRODIGIOUS WHALE

... considered -an undoubted proof If oit. - .'LASENTABLE SUPrkSTITrOxN.-A species of blight ti or grub has settled on the blackberry leaves, gnawing them P in a sefpentine manner, so that the dead fibre shows thtoug& thL e remaining green.- It will hardly ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1825
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

miscellaneous

... of good wine a day for twenty-pence. —Literary Cstxci. Lamentable Superstition —A species blight grab nai settled on the blackberry leaves, gnawing them in a serpt ntine manner, that the dead fibre shows through the remaitaDsT green. It will hardly be ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1825
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3563 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLITICS

... respects satisfactory own mind.” Fortunately, the Hon. Baronet had the reasons wanted, into the bargain. They were as plenty blackberries, it seems; and much the better for a squeamish conscience : but had they been as rare a Queen Anne's farthing, it would ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1825
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Ctyj* JWovmnj’iS ijßlartutjs

... deealecb* needs only to turn over page or two of bis writings to prove that he has these * similes in one word* •os plenty as blackberries.’ The formal long-winded similitudes, in which he sometimes indulges, would probably except out of the definition. Be it ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1825
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6569 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mr Hume presented a petition from n grocer, named Wm

... instant, the first stone of the Mausoleum, about to be erected to the memory the late lamented Duchess of Rutland, was laid Blackberry Hill, his Royal Highness the Duke York. Friday, the largest steam vessel ever huilt tins country, Was launched from the ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1826
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4161 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON

... instant, the first stone of the Mausoleum about to be erected in memory of the late lamented Ducbhss of Rutland, was laid on Blackberry Hill, by his Royal Highness the Duke of York.. The site of the inteuaed.edifice, although but-a short distance from the ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1327 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MARLBOROUGH STREET

... youtzthoughto.tw' rt a Noblesan for two shil- t lings? said Mr. Harmer. :- i Why,-if Noblemen were as a - plentiful as blackberries, you-could hardly hope to buy them b - at two shillings a piece.' - Oh! but I gave her a great deal more, Sir, replied ...

Published: Monday 20 March 1826
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2085 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SECOND DAY

... the select dined together with his Worship the Mayor the very venerable the Town Hall, where compliments were as plenty blackberries; and the un-select dined where they could, and got drunk At their own costw hich but fair, now that the election was over ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1826
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 664 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LABOURING POOR FUND

... said to Jock, . How durst you let the Boar into our vineyard ? The bairns o’ the town would tak but eggs, and birds, and blackberries; but Rupees and his rajahs are come rob us o’ home and ha’.* Whereupon Jock, he’s true’s a dog, before the abape o’ my ...

Published: Thursday 30 November 1826
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 6408 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... foot,Tsaid to Joek, How durst you let the Boar into our vineyard ? The bairns othe town would tak but eggs, and bird*, and blackberries but Hupees and his rajahs are come to rob uso' home and ha. Whereupon Jock, he's true's a dog, before the shape ta my ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 1826
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1171 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ORNITHOLOGY

... llierc also a wide extent of mountains and Itigh lands, it ill tile more favourable; and should the cranberry, the whortle or blackberry, anB die other wild fruits which these situations produce, found in abundance, the trial would, in all probability, be attended ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1827
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1013 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ItiffictUastra. Or COO( of the woods, esiated formerly both in Ireland and Scotland ; and, according to Shaw, ..

... be also a wide extent of mountains and high lands, Ii will be more favourable; and should the cranberry, the whortl: or blackberry, and te other wild fruits which these situations produce, he found in abundance, the trial would, in all probability, he ...