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  • The blue-berry companies often encountered them upon the plain, but found them shy as young partridges, dodging through the bushes, and skulking away as though kidnappers were in pursuit.

    Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

  • It was one of the brightest of our July mornings, when a blue-berry company started from the village before-mentioned.

    Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

  • They had all three come down together from the high blue-berry patches to the dark swamps to hunt for roots and fungi as a variation to their fruit diet.

    Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • So, all of a sudden, he fell straight through a thick fringe of blue-berry bushes and went sprawling and clawing down the face of an almost perpendicular steep.

    Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • And with a scream she fell, and swooned away, and died, turning backwards, so that her hair caught in the springy herbage, and her head rolled a little in her pain, so that her hair was loosened and tightened, and look, there are still little tufts of blue-berry leaves in her hair.

    Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Edmund Gosse 1888

  • The pastures and borders of the woods were covered with patches of huckleberry and blue-berry bushes, and over every stone heap clambered the low blackberry vines with racemes of luscious fruit.

    Confessions of Boyhood John Albee 1874

  • "blue-berry companies," sometimes in wagons, sometimes on foot, was among the most common of our midsummer morning scenes.

    Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

  • "Mrs. Graffam," said she, "I know that the blue-berry parties must be a great trouble to you, and we would not have come here for water, only

    Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

  • "It was about the end of the blue-berry season when Teddy Bear lost his big, rusty-coated mother and small, glossy black sister, and found himself completely alone in the world.

    Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

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