... snow was five feet deep on the hill-side. They brushed the snow away with feet and nose, finding luscious whortleberries, blackberries, and raspberries in great quantities. The lowest authentic record at the barracks was fifty-seven degrees below zero, yet ...

... disposal of the Minister of the Interior has simplified the precautions for public safety. Sentries will be posted as thick as blackberries in autumn all over the course, and the entire race is to be organised on strictly military lines down to the magnificent ...

... K. Cunliffe's Double Harness pair, Sam Weller and Buckingham Gentleman, 2nd prize. 3. Mr. J. C. Pike's bitch, Broxholme Blackberry, winner of Silcer Bowl for best bulldog. 4. Single Harness Class under 14.2 hands. 5. Mrs. Hartley Batt's Tandem, Lady ...

... Miss Skeggs and Lady Blarney in the Vicar of Wakefield, we are bound to believe that beautiful women are as common as blackberries, only more so. In the columns devoted by newspaper editors to the meanderings of those intelligent persons, male and female ...

... beanfeasters about and had overheard this scrap of dialogue. Bill to Eliza What are those red things in the hedge Eliza Blackberries, of course. Bill: But they're red. How can black berries be red Eliza Stupid Don't you know that black berries are always ...

... supplies equally pure and deliciously flavoured home-made jams, such as hot-house pineapple, stoned cherry, straw berry, blackberry, and damson cheese, a pot of each of which include in your Yuletide hamper this Christmas and receive, as I know you will ...

... weights this year have been compiled by Messrs. Topham, who, by-the- bye, run the show. Tips for the race are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, but in this particular race you want to take them with a fall barred. I shall, at this early stage of the pro ...

... Magdalen had wandered so far and constantly that she knew every haunt of the sweet rough-rinded hazel-nuts, the dark purple blackberries (which in their season the birds ate so freely that every grey rock and boulder was spotted as though a whole army of ...

... There were roses, fragrant and fragile, the last of the season, China asters, both pink and white, in profusion, carnations, blackberry sprays, gladiolus, marigolds, blue, pink, white, red, yellow flowers all sorts and combinations of colour. Most of the parasols ...

... comes, but, at all events, there is the satisfaction of feeling how well it be gan Fences are yet as blind as can be the blackberries are a picture it seems to be a singularly good season for them-- in other ways it is an early season. Until frosts come' ...

... remainder being in an advanced state of decay. Trees have sent their branches into the bedroom windows, and the long, trailing blackberry has forced its way into dining-rooms and kitchens. The main-road was once sewered and made-up, but is now buried beneath ...

... nobody good. The Russian revolution is bringing a golden harvest to the Riviera, where grand dukes are as plentiful as blackberries. Cannes might be termed a suburb of St. Peters burg; one hears Russian spoken on all sides, especially on the golf links ...