... muck as 'by your leave,' and applied to educating a district where good schools are, comparatively speaking, as 'thick as blackberries,' and the college left with only one-tenth of its rightful incomue ; in another he says While the Commissioners have ...

... factories-that black-strap is at frequent work in them all-that cuffs from open and blows from clenched hands are plentiful as blackberries- that samples are shown of every species of shaking-and that there is no dearth of that perhaps most brutal of all beastly ...

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

... that there are no competent dramatists. Be it understood that I am not saying that a dramatist is to be picked up like a blackberry off a hedge when those fruits are in season. Such a man will be a rara avds (pardon that miserable scrap of Latin from a ...

... vales end woods of Somersetshire; where Falstaff doubtless originated his happy thought of reasons being as plenty as blackberries ;-for never did I behold such lavish profusion of fruit, -as that of our hedgerows and copse woods this summer. The, present ...

... the wit of man could conceive. How is this? Is it an age of such universal genius, and of candour; is merit as common as blackberries, and has it, for the first time, its just appreciation, and have envy and detraction fled the world ? No; the world is ...

... Depuotations are now all the go everywhere. No- thing can be done without a deputation, and luckily deputies are plenty as blackberries. Our cotem. of the New York Herald has been visited by 'a deputation, from Poughkeepsie, which he thus describes:- A ...

... excellent practice, whose names are Slaughter, Blood, and Death.-Morning Post. - New operas in Italy appear to be as plenty as blackberries. Every city of note in that land of song may just now boast of having pro. duced a new one. In Ferrara there is L'Aeor ...

... much as By your leave, and applied to educating a district where good schools are com- paratively speaking ' as thick as blackberries, and the College left with only one-tenth of its rightful incomae. I can only liken the Governors, with the College on ...

... liar, scoundrel, and other epithets of this de- scription, are as familiar amongst them in application to each other as blackberries in Autumn. The other night they had a meeting to try Mit- chell, the proposer of Mr. Hunt, and in order to sober the minds ...

... from the Morning Chronicle. Of a verity, we must hot look for figs from brambles. The specimens before us are of the true blackberry order, N 0 T A B I L I A. We have been vastly edified by a Bow street Report, setting forth the method of instructing persons ...

... may not say that the staple of Blackburn is cotton without instant contradiction. Had oe said the staple of Blackburn was blackberries, Lord Grey should have had too much respect for the Peerage to gainsay it. What is ^he boasted independence of the House ...