1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway:She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, page 111:My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, page 72:My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, page 48:Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
