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CAITLIN DHU

... Right on the brink of the steep bank of the Loch, a bank richly clothed this July evening with heather and woodbine, and blackberry bushes, she and Phil sat. Both were still in their bare feet; they had just concluded doing their station by the holy well ...

CIRCULAR NOTES

... this is concurrent with the greatest horse show the world has ever known, visitors and players are always as plentiful as blackberries in Septem ber. The red deer on Exmoor continue to give brilliant sport, and in the north the rifles have begun work, having ...

CITY NOTES: MONEY AND THE MARKETS

... before we are all cursing ourselves for having missed the opportunities that now present themselves more plentifully than blackberries of picking up cheap stock Assuredly the day will come when we shall tear what hair is left to us, and the very remembrance ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2451 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

MY LADY'S MIRROR

... for June, mauve for July, cream or beige for August, green for September, grey for October, orange for November, while a blackberry or a black pearl stands for December. There are certain superstitions which are quite objectionable in their way and likely ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2379 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

MY MORNING PAPER

... important than the discovery of the fine quality of Essex blackberries In the ordinary course of events, I expect to see orders given to all farmers on the East Coast to develop this blackberry-cultivation to such a point that the real invader, wnen ne ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1062 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

Twisted Eglantine

... trees ended, and the track ran out into a more open shelving country, full of dwarf bushes, holly and juniper and briar and blackberry. What was this place Faversham, streaming along in the silver light, worked and strained his memory. Everything was unfamiliar ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1904
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4668 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

CIRCULAR NOTES

... almost always be certain of picking up a pheasant or two in a good big hedgerow where blackberries grow abundantly. The pheasant, in truth, is as active a blackberrier as any village child, and will dare a great deal to be able to indulge himself in his ...

THE DRIVING OF THE PHAETON: TIE STORY OF A RUNAWAY COURTSHIP

... at its foot on the other was a deep little gully and a wire fence that crossed the water in a swinging span. A tangle of blackberry briers and other undergrowth lined both sides of the road. The trees arched above them, and the sweetness of the sylvan ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1904
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7808 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

CIRCULAR NOTES

... have noticed what an enormous crop of exceptionally fine blackberries have been wasting their sweetness upon our hedgerows for many weeks past. To the man in the street there is only one blackberry, whilst the average farmer only knows of two varieties ...

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... fifteen pages of Froude's book where he treats of the religious revolution in Scotland, and finds the errors as thick as blackberries. N o work of history can be altogether impeccable. So Mr. Lang says, and he is right. Macaulay perhaps comes the nearest ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1119 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE FIGHTING CHANCE

... delicate contour of ankle and limb, following a little descending path she knew full of rocky angles swept by pendant sprays of blackberry and then down under the jutting rock, south through thickets of wild cherry along the crags, until before her the way opened ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1906
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5056 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

CONUFOGE

... that had said their last word to their Maker. A woman's fan was fluttering like a limed bird upon an incongruous wreath of blackberry bushes by the rails. Undine followed the field, the sun upon her saddle. Maid of Kent, untouched by whip or spur, came up ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1907
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 5155 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations