... gentleman, apropos of anchovy sauce, remarked that he had seen the anchovy growing wild, as thick and almost as large as blackberries ; upon the suggestion that the anchovy was not of the vegetable kingdom, he fired up, and asked whether his word were doubted ...

... send letter a thousand miles for a penny, and bur week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays as fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on ninepenee halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

... before magistrate, who directed thereupon to convict the before-named penalty. Objections to this law hong thick as blackberries, and are so palpable, that I doubt not your readers can anticipate me in making them, after reading thus far. In the first ...

... about 1,600. There cannot be a more primitive soil for an estate occupied for centuries by a family of distinction. The wild blackberry grows in the middle of what is called the lawn, and the whole place is, or rather was (for some improvements have been made) ...

... RHILLY; and REILLY won't be said by MITCZHLL; but all le three will go over the bridge, to eat theirbitter f bunch of blackberries. g( The selection of such a name as the United Irish- aa man is significant enough. But the motto they tO have determined ...

... We hope at any rate that the crown will select P6 u man of sense for the office. Orthodox divines are as a e plenty as blackberries; saints are sprinkled here and it s there; statesmen are rarely to be found in the higher u ranks of the church. The demand ...

... conciliate as many as possible of his late fellow- c D- citizens, Princes, dukes, marquises, and counts will t be as plenty as blackberries in the island, and the im-C aperial court will probably be better furnished with E hhigh-sounding titles than any in the ...

... Sator- day last, there was a diatribe against the Manchester school, in which misrepresentations are as plentiful as blackberries. Here are some samples. The power of Russia is exemplified by her instantaneous conquest of a kingdom which for twelve ...

... actual distress, and 2 that its abolition or suspense was not the remedy. 2 O Reasons, his lordship said, were thick as blackberries 0 for free trade, so that to put up with the present, and R place hope only in the future, was his lordships o advice. ...

... and, if we may believe the last acconuts, was already the heroine of the day. Sonnets and serenades were as pleutiful as blackberries. The season at Washington is unusually gay. The British minister and lady are remarked for their gene- rous hospitality ...

... the malt- tax, or some other tax of which the agriculturists complain. RrAsoNs for parliamentary reform are plenty as blackberries. One need not go out of one's way to seek them-; they stare one in the face at every corner; they lift their shrill voices ...

... officials be always have on such ocasions-excuses, and reasons, and apologies, and necessities, too, as plenty as i *o- blackberries. The landowners-wonderfultobe said cy -would sell their land cheap; they would not take 48 shares, bat it should actually ...