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THE WORLD OF SPORT: CRICKET

... sprang readily enough large crops of century scores, and runs, generally speaking, were as plentiful as the proverbial blackberries. Last season two cricketers. A. E. Stoddart. and Gunn scored over 2000 runs each. This year I doubt whether any batsman ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1043 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

RACING NOTES BY CAPTAIN COE

... Handicaps will be out in a day or two. Then matters will wake up in the racing world. Already tips are as plentiful as blackberries, but if Major Egerton docs his work well the winners should, as usual, take some finding. Of the Cesarewitcli, I am told ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 807 | Page: 47 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF SPORT: CRICKET

... family, stands quite six feet in height, and is, I believe, in his twentieth year. Century scores have been as plentiful as blackberries in September. One must not, however, forget an extraordinary performance by Kamur Bliri Eanjitsinbji in making his debut ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1729 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

RACING NOTES

... event of the Goodwood Meeting is the Stewards' Cup, which provides a large field. Tips for this race are as plentiful as blackberries, but I am told that Missal will go very close. It is quite possible that Reminder will win the Goodwood Cup, and Persimmon ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1245 | Page: 40 | Tags: Photographs 

MDLLE. CARLA DAGMAR

... notice that I coidd sing any better than anybody else when I was a child. You see, good singers in Sweden are as common as blackberries, and if England is a nation of shopkeepers, Sweden can claim to be a nation of natural-born singers. It must be the pure ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1076 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

RACING NOTES BY CAPTAIN COE

... maintain its place in the public estimate as one of the most interesting events of the year. Tips have been as plentiful as blackberries, and until the winning number has gone up opinions will continue to differ as to the probable result. Teufel and Earwig ...

Published: Wednesday 28 April 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 939 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... score of 35 at this distance. There were about two dozen men who got registers of 34. Totals of 33 were as plentiful as blackberries, and scores of 30 were positively of no account. Accuracy of shooting was much more pronounced at 500 yards, where nearly ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9163 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ART OF THE DAY

... should find its way into the hands of all lovers of art reproduction. B PORTRAIT OF MISS AtABEL WALLACE. 0. P. JACOMB-HOOD. BLACKBERRIES. DAVID CARR. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1109 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

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