... niiscellaneous items a- theology, veterinary surgery, and the higher education of women. colleges of the new style are as ?? as blackberries ; the old style was something different, the buildings were historical, the P)(ns were historical, and-most important of ...

... years ago alleged it to be, its works do not multiply fast enough to main- tain their relative proportion to the whole. The blackberry is common enough in a sense, but as the hedge grows high and thick the berries get further and further outstripped by the ...

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THf INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...

... jostled each other on the high road to fame; when beautiful women, be they duchesses or fruit-girls, were as frequent as blackberries. Yet they had all passed out of sight but for him who had magic enough to transform what had else been a mere memory into ...

... carpeted with bracken, with here and there a bright-coloured gorse-bush or-prickly bramble, laden in autumn with luscious blackberries. In the spring the ground is bright with acres of bluebells, primroses, and violets. In summer the woods are alive with ...

... Gillies returning with Deer; Mr. Nico's humorous Fisher's Knot and On the Look-out a and Mr. Mason's tender and poetic Blackberry Gathering. The dexterous execution of Mr. Halswelle's Contadino in St. Peter's, Rome, does not compensate for the work's ...

... Then for varieties of white bloom, there is the white clover and the large white discs of the cow-parsnip, and the white blackberry blossoms, and the clusters of the elder, and the large, flat, snowy flowers of the wild Guelder rose, which is here called ...

... perhaps in one case out of a million-spoil the illusion. It is the same with your fine-looking men, who are as plentiful as blackberries. You can trust them to he magnificent as Cevur de Lion smiting the Saracen, or Front de Bmeuf running after Rebecca over ...

... assuming a wild river-like appearance. I should like to turn out a national school to pasture on the never-ending succession of blackberry bushes. I returned by the pleasant high road, with its green margin wider than the road itself, and bordering on sonie of ...

... of nicknames, Christian names admitting of but a limited choice in the country, and Jacks and Dicks abounding like the blackberries. Hence a system of prefixes obtains, as it used to do in the Borders with such a name as Armstrong, its possessors having ...

... the culmninating point of St. llelena. Here a few roughly-squared blocks of tufa, now over- grown with wildl-pel)er and blackberry brambles, are all that remain to mark the site of Edmund Ialley's observatory, where 200 years ago he noted the transit ...

... do part of the family's scrambling for money, by picking wild strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and fine luscious blackberries, and standing on the road side, offering the fruit for sale to the tourists in pretty baskets, platters, or boxes of birch-bark ...