... of money. I knew nothing about her, and had never heard of her, save from his own description ; but the words ' dark as a blackberry' had fixed her colour indelibly on my mind. Judge of my astonishment when I was introduced to one of the most beau- tiful ...

... Tiios. Hammond, North Parade. A lad at Idle, aged 16, by name David Firth, went out on Sunday morning last, to gather blackberries. He ate so many that his stomach became overcharged, and notwithstanding every exertion used to relieve him, after lingering ...

... Secretary. Sir wanted to show that their only offence was Toryism ; but such is not the fact. In Bristol “reasons are plenty as blackberries” why they should never have been recommended, and Lord Joux has conferred no slight obligation on the inhabitants of that ...

... singular man.” If this new criterion of genius a correct one, it will bo found that geniuses are as plentiful Falstaffs blackberries, among the working classes of England; fur they arc, almost to a man, admirers of Mr. Cobbett’s writings. Nor would geniuses ...

... was hard to procuse their assistance in the construction of these im|*irlant documents. Now, however, they are “plenty blackberries in autumn,and reasonable excuse exists for uot employing them, but the very natural determination most sensible men have ...

... letter, Mr. Black, the til'd April, wrote the following reply ; •* Reasons, my dear Sir. as Falstaff say*. • are plenty as blackberries; but will give no man a on compulion.’ refer you to Canon license shall •.•ranted but to such persons as good stale and ...

... House and Bluncard’s. stole quantity of sovereigns at each, and then disappeared. This summer they will lie as plenty as blackberries. Each steamer will bring a fresh lot. —New York Paper. ...

... last week was in a very pensive mood, being reduced almost to her last shilling. Sovereigns were plentifal enough — as blackberries are in autumn : but shillings, they were as difficult to find as a fly in Hyde Bark, or a needle in a bottle of hay ...

... HUDDERSFIELD Mysterious Affair. — Whilst two hoys were picking blackberries, on Wednesday, in the wook at Sunny Bank, close to the Halifax and Huddersfield new turnpike road, about ;i mile from the latter place, they discovered the dead body of a new ...

... feeling in Leeds, in favour of Complete Suffrage, should become general, conversions in the Whig camp will be as plentiful as blackberries in Autumn. The whole of the parties invited were not present. Among those absent was Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. The Hon ...

... question, the Proprietors of the Canal are getting 30 per cent, on tlieir paid-up capital ! Reasons are plentiful as blackberries why the Proprietors should immediately set about devising means for removing the nuisance; and we hope the very temperate ...

... solitude ; there man has no share, his footsteps never tread. The ground around these dead sticks is covered with rasp and blackberry bushes, and there the soli- tary bear makes merry, and lives at his ease, for this is his gar- den, and wbo shall disturb ...