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THE TRAVELS OF A HINDOO

... Shazada, with these, when every native salaams the humblest Englishman. Tem- ples in Benares, he tells us, are plentiful as blackberries. More tban once they have been swept away, but they shoot up like mushrooms in that sacred soil, and now they count ...

Published: Thursday 17 February 1870
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 3396 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WORKING MAN ABROAD

... ■* n Chinas, thrive on peat and m an*-- v - of almost any kind that has bee- D . • As for the more robust kind.-*. • *i blackberries and raspberries — a: ?? ll soil that will grow a caolitl- wer __ to the ground by frost or knife - .•- newing themselves ...

Published: Saturday 16 April 1870
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 2274 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

2'^ncSb*- -+6s a time. •':- •I »' j \

... moming mist and eveninfhaze (Unlike tbis cold grey-rime) Seemed woven warm of. golden air — When 1 was in my prime. . . And blackberries- so mawkish now— Weteitoelylijwouredthen . .. And nnte -.such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor st ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1870
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ONCE UPON TIME mind of pleasant time A BOMon long ago : Th« ple»«»nte*t I’ve ever known, Or •▼er now

... morning mist and erening haze (Unlike this oold grey rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air— When I was in my prime. And blackberries—so mawkish now— Were finely flavoured then And nuta-~such reddening clusters ripe 1 ne’er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1872
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE AUTUMN MANOEUVRES

... his best indirectly to stop tbem, in order to save a failure being made by an army, which failures are as plentiful as blackberries are— anywhere but on Dartmoor. But the governor was overruled, and accordingly in we marched into his fields last night ...

Published: Tuesday 19 August 1873
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 5253 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EXCURSION TO SARK

... did with the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 August 1874
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COLONEL PEYTON

... with over creeping vines, hills covered with green wood or yellow corn and tangled briers on which the ripe and luscious blackberries cling. Here reared against the sky, are leafy clumps of picturesquely stemmed trees, and there beneath is the sparkling ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1877
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IF

... a lift from the bull there. 'Tis delightful to range the woods when they change, And the nuts get riper and riper, And blackberries sweet invite you to eat, — If you don't get a bite from a viper. It's charming to float with the tide, in your boat, When ...

Published: Thursday 17 July 1879
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE COUNTRY CURATE

... coloured leaves the blue sky was visible, and far ahead a faintly bluish shadow fell athwart the hollow. There were still blackberries on the bramble, beside whicli the brown fern filled the open spaces, and behind upon the banks the mosses clothed tho ground ...

Published: Tuesday 23 December 1879
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 4949 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

UNE VISITE ROYALE

... ; again an order for the piuning-knife ; and again a oue- and-six-penny fine for the careless master of i the offending blackberry-bush. A tree haa been allowed to grow from the embankment, and its trunk lessens the legal width of the lane. The same formulary ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1880
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1758 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ON SOME MORE GUERNSEY.DESTITUTIONS

... and fire it ain't ; it's black as ink, and ink it ain't. How we puzzled over this, and how we shouted with glee when a blackberry was announced as the solution. I remember tiie Brouard family who lived near La Mare, a little pock- tiiarked-raan about ...

Published: Tuesday 15 February 1881
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 2748 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COLIN CLOUT'S CALENDER

... view at least) come the blackberry and raspberry ; where the individual fruitlets grow soft, sweet, and pulpy, instead of remaining dry as in the strawberry. And this change clearly marks a stap in advance; so that blackberries and raspberri.-s are enabled ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 1882
Newspaper: The Star
County: Guernsey, Guernsey
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: 4 | Tags: none