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EXPOSE OF THE DRAINING System

... Chirk .5,000 We could swell the enumeration with a host of reverend names, the parson applicants being as plentiful as blackberries-but we refrain. Let this disbursement be honestly considered. Are the parties we have declared voluntary seekers of public ...

Published: Sunday 15 September 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1324 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE PROVINCES

... John Heyworth, one of the county police, who asked them where they had keen to, when replied that they had been gathering blackberries. This was opposite to Green-lane. Soon atrerwards, Heywortk was return- ne towards Livernool. and saw the children about ...

Published: Sunday 18 September 1853
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2985 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

AMERICA

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1851
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1452 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF RURAL Sports;

... into the fields for the sake of a very little pleasure, such as the taking of a fish in a dingy pond, or the pulling of a blackberry on a dusty road; and who is not at heart a poacher P lnde- pendently of these out-door enjoyments, the destruc- tiveness ...

Published: Sunday 22 February 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1408 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE

... day to elect Feargus O Coanor Chancellor of ?? Exchecluer, for idlers acid useless public speakers are as plentiful as blackberries. Matters are not quite certain in North Lancashire as regards candidates for the forthcoiing election. Mr. James Heywood ...

Published: Sunday 25 April 1852
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

FREEMASONRY

... efficacy. Detergents, or substances for cleansing silk and woollen fabrics, have been for the last thirty years as plenty as blackberries, from the salts of sonrel, to turpentine disguised with oil of lemons there has been no end to such professing evasers ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1436 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

OLDHAM ELECTION

... as well as working men, who were understood to be Mr. Fox's supporters, and black eyes and bruises were as plentiful as blackberries this morning, all received, as was said, in a good-humoured way, in Oldham parlance. At the Star and the Globe inns ...

Published: Friday 03 December 1852
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1542 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

JACOB'S RIFLES

... 12th instant tells the following thrilling tale:-' Last fall a woman residing in the vicinity of Wor. cester was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only chile, a bright-eyed little fellow of less than a year old. The babe ...

Published: Friday 26 December 1856
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1349 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE SONTAL INSURRECTION

... could not have been carried on with any great degree of secresy in a country where spies and informers are plentiful as blackberries. Assuredly a rigid investigation into the whole matter will be exacted. With regard to the importance, in a political point ...

Published: Tuesday 09 October 1855
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1574 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR CARPET BAG

... letter a thousand miles for a penny, and buy a 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 nisepence halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

Published: Sunday 23 March 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... 12th instant tells the following thrilling tale:- Last fali, a woman residing in the vicinity of Worcester, was picking blackberries in a field near her house, having with her her only child, a bright-eyed little I fellow of less than a year old. The babe ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1857
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1470 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GAROTTE EXECUTION

... , or beaten, or sabred, for nothing at all, in these barbarous regions. Such intelligence will soon be as plentiful as blackberries, or as reports of mur. ders from Ireland. Now, the consideration that will enforce itself upon Mr. John Bull is, whether ...

Published: Sunday 09 January 1853
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1639 | Page: 4 | Tags: News