... objection to it, provided they could be first drawn fairly and then comfortably quartered. TOUCHING METAPHOR.—Life is a field of blackberry bushes. Mean people squat down and pick the fruit, no matter bow they black their fingers: while genius, proud and perpendicular ...

... fiction, the journals, after a heavy fall of rain. The paper positively overflow with thunderbolts, they are plentiful as blackberries, a drug in the market. Not • steeple but has been struck by lightning, not a village but boasts its thunderbolt. The most ...

... struggle to come out here; and . so they oug4t, too, because there is room enough for all. M in! money here is as plentiful as blackberries on the barrack bills in harvest time. No grinding of soul and body for a scanty subsistence! Lot artisans of all classes ...

... morning mut and evening base (Unlike this cold gray rime), &teed woven warm of golden air— When I was in my prune. And blackberries—so mawkish now— Were finely devoured then ; And nuts—sueh reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again': Nor strawberries ...

... which are known, but also the richest fruits, such as the apple, pear, pooh, plum, apricot, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, &o.—namely, that no fossils of plants belonging to this family have ever been diecovered by geologists! This is regarded ...

... statement for the ensuing year, the particulars of winch will be found in our Parliamentary intelligence. Well, budgets like blackberries hare their particular seaman., and the politician looks forward to the one, with about the same amount of anticipation ...

... Science anb tbe 'Arts. TA3LI Op PISIODIC PIIIMOYINA—JULY lit to 14th.—July lit, Blackberry flowers; 2nd, Rooks return to their nest trees to rood—Lime flowers— Young frogs come on land—Ragwort flowers; AO., Common St. John's Wort flusters; 3th, Chaffinch ...

... Fiisstost following with a loaded gun —for they wero minded to shoot rabbits—when the lock and triiger were caught by a blackberry-hosh, and the contents were suddenly lodged in the body of the luckless Mountferret. By this unfortunate a n d tra g i ca ...

... (Hear, hear.) Ms steam-engines, again, were ,considered most ridiculous, hut now steam-engines on law were ne com.non as blackberries. Formerly there was a strong belief in that locality that deep cultivation was injurious, but there had been a great 'change ...

... ground till the principal races were over. Divisional generals, brigadiers, colonels, and staff-officers, were plenty u blackberries, and, though the only representative of the fair sex was Mrs. Seaoole, who presided over a sorely invested tent full of ...

... died by the will of (lod, or moo other digests, unknown to the Jury. Life, says the graphic Neal, is like a field of blackberry bushes; mean people stoop and pick the fruit, no matter how much they blacken their fingers; but genius, proud and perpendicular ...

... endure thy taunts, but for the charity of thy bitter old grandaunt And as to Maud there,—did she not bring me sound ripe blackberries and flowers, and never mocked me but by sweet soothing words, and taught me prayers ? Yes, and I know them, and maybe they'll ...