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JOHN BRIGHT AND A WELSH FARMHOUSE

... its rural simplicity. The sturdy Welshwomen come tramping down the hillsides with their live fowls, their eggs, butter, blackberries, and mushrooms, which they carry away to market in Barmouth and Dolgelly, but the dilatory trains bring no visitors to ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... coloured velvet. Behind this, a large white ostrich-feather followed the outline of brim, tucked under it being a bunch of blackberries, with autumn briar foliage in greens and dun-browns. Another good hat was of violet satin straw trimmed with dark velvet ...

Published: Wednesday 31 August 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1771 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... evening lately, and when in Ireland last week quite a vision was evolved by a clever little hostess out of half-ripened blackberry sprays and crimson sorrel-tops. With rowan-berries and wild forget-me-nots another daring but most able scheme was carried ...

Published: Wednesday 14 September 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1975 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... your Honour, with your Honour's vast experience, is pleased enough to observe that truthfulness is not so plentiful as blackberries in this country. And I am sorry to say, though this witness is a man of my own feathers, that there are in my profession ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9739 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... undreamt of a quarter of a century ago) of £600. Champion Baron Sedgemere is one of the famous litter by Stockwell ex Champion Blackberry, born in 1895, which also included Champion Boaz, Mr. G. R. Sims's well-known Barney Barnato, and Baroness Sedgemere. The ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1899
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9983 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW ZEALAND GRAND NATIONAL MEETING

... double Blackberry headed Morag, and here Dummy ran into third place, with Tally-ho and Muscatel close up. The sod wall brought Tally-ho to grief, Blackberry being here clear of Morag, Dummy being just in front of Ven ture and Muscatel Blackberry was sort ...

A SPORT OF KINGS IN A DEMOCRATIC AGE

... is after the bird, which now appears but the size of a sparrow as it makes for dear life for a stunted hedge of thorn and blackberry briars if it can but reach that haven it knows therein safety lies, for its enemy will not follow into covert. The falcon ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1008 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

CITY NOTES: THE STOCK EXCHANGE POSITION

... be in the swim. From all parts came anxious inquiries as to what was the right thing to buy, and tips were plentiful as blackberries. Stock Exchange men by the dozen laid in shares for themselves in concerns the very spelling of whose names they were ignorant ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3645 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

CONCERNING MRS. TREE

... they are no more, the now famous actress has told me she looks back to the pleasant rambles by fields and brooks, to the blackberrying and the primrose gatherings, and to the scenes of rural life where, though excitements were few and far between, sweet ...

THE WORLD OF SPORT: RACING NOTES

... and from his work. o O The S win cannot make up my mind over the Lincolnshire Handicaps Handicap. Rumours are thick as blackberries in am icaps. autumn, and it is impossible for one to sift the wheat from the chaff. Laffan is, it is rumoured, being backed ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1389 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs