... pleasantly undulating country, its narrow roads in winter, knee-deep in mud, with their thick tall fences, in which the blackberries are now ripening; its green lanes which tempt the traveller from the hWi-road ; its pleasant footpaths through cornfields ...

... the parapet, for the Yankee sharp shooters, armed with rifles of a long range, with telescopic sights, were thick as blackberries in the woods to the front, and were excellent shots. Darn the blue-skins, anyhow; who's scared of the blue bellies (i ...

... Manhattan, in his last letter). At his reception, one evening last week, in the White House, the negroes were as thick as blackberries in Jersey. Among them was a coloured barber named Burke ; he was an applicant for an office in the News York Custom House ...

... bridegrooms and them brliel. A large Scotch pearl was found the other day at InvLimey. It was about the size of a large blackberry, weigheu twenty three nralas, and was ronnu and perfectly pure. It was sold for 311. Sootland Is the only lend that can ...

... Itse Palm Proceedings lie was found gullty, to pool servitude for fifteen found It is expected that there will be tits blackberries, nuts, and elderberries this swim of England that has been known for saved On; of the many rumours at Is about Abd-el-Kader ...

... the race week, when Princes and titled people from almost every European country (France especially) were as plentiful as blackberries, a young Brazilian won close on 30,000/. and on Saturday evening the process known as breaking the bank came to pass ...

... After g sting John Davies to make an engagement to go with ma in tin, afternoon to Duffryn Wood tor the purpose of picking blackberries, at one o'clock, I went to burrow the hatchet, I carried it to the blacksmith's stop and hid It outside under a bush where ...

... where he saw an old crone stirring • black mixture in a huge cauldron which looked ,like • compound of blacking, sloes, and blackberries plucked from the neighbouring hedges. What are you brewing there, my good woman! said my friend. The old witch, stirring ...

... be found at education and good treatment won' d do for the blackberry. The Sweinvegg plum was only a sloe on e, and the Itihrton Pippin no better than a crab apple. There world be blackberries, perhaps, bigger than the biggest and they might even come ...

... considered the greatest luxuries here grew there in wild abundance, and finegrapes could be gathered there as freely as blackberries were here. There was plenty of timber of all sorts, and water of the coldest and purest quality. The soil was very easy ...

... an advesetnrotot tumbrel axle-deep in mingled water and stiff day mud. How the horses used to labour co, the dog-rise and blackberry-hush boughs vexing their eyes and scratching their flanks, and how deep the knees need to go down into the ruts and pools ...

... they hadiseard the evidence they would see that the act of the defendeat was s pure accident ; that the boy was gathering blackberries in the hedge and was unseen by the defendant. The defendant was called, but His Loriahip thmght there was no defence in ...