... humiliating reflections on their own meanness, which it is impossible for such men to escape. Though arguments were plenty as blackberries ” in the scale of these men, a few halfpence would outweigh them all. There is, however, another class, more numerous perhaps ...

... Shipman. Mr. White, after addressing the Jury,on behalf of the prisoner, called James who said that while he was gathering blackberries, at the back of Mr. Shipman's farm, company with the prisoner, they found a dead fowl lying the ditch. being cross-examined ...

... ks, men of no principles and scarcely any opinions for which you would give a fortnight's purchase, are as plenty as blackberries. What shoals of Lord Stanley's are gadding about the world seeking their fortunes, on the look-out for opportunities, ...

... difficult than at the present time, but the difficulty was of recent creation. Time was when candidates were plentiful as blackberries, (a laugh), and why? because there was something to be made by becoming an M.P. They had seen a man spend his £20,000. ...

... Hon. Mr. Curzondidnots/ioirat our assizes, or the authors of Rejected Addresses would have been almost as plentiful as blackberries. Suicide.—Mr. Edward Hitchins, valet to Earl Howe, hung himself in an outhouse belonging to the George Inn, Market Bosworth ...

... of the Royal Artillery Company. Notice —Those pests of society, common informers, having become nearly as plentiful as blackberries, we consider it our duty to caution parties who do not employ a professional man, to compel the vagabonds to prove their ...

... opponents. So in this case we are happy to assure our opponent in the words of Falstaff himself— That reasons areas plenty as blackberries. We leave our case with pleasure to the judgment of our readers. We have no doubt that they will see with us, that the ...

... wax to preserve their all, declaring there is nothing like leather.] Railways having become nearly as plentiful as blackberries, the opening of one is now almost an everyday occurrence, consequently little more is necessary* than to record the fact ...

... —Defendant said it was not likely he should be poaching with two children, he had been gleaning and stopped to eat a few blackberries which was getting at the time complainant saw appearing it was not his first offence, the Magistrate ordered him to pay ...

... becoming men of war, far at least as preparation went, for we have been assured that loaded pistols were plentiful as blackberries. We are also informed that the Mayor of Hinckley refused to allow the meeting to be held, because no requisition had been ...

... the Registrar-General, the following causes of violent deaths in England one year are recorded:—Lightning, 15 persons; blackberries, 1 ; drinking boiling water, 6; drinking cold water, 2; a bull, 2; Godfrey's cordial, 2; fire, 22; ferret, 1; cucumbers ...

... on in this habit, and thus leave onr polite dandies alone in their glory.—The prigs and blacklegs were plentiful as blackberries, but it was no go, as Ihey were aware that tbe eyes of tne Crushers wore upon tbem. We only beard of one case of ...