 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...who want." — LKLAND, p. 238. heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their...scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...upon their bands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat...out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1833 - 398 pages
...them. They looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find...out of their graves ; and if they found a plot; of watercresses, or shamrocks, to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - 1833 - 388 pages
...did eat the dead carrion, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they ^found a plot of watercressee or shamrocks, they flocked as to a feast for the time. Yet not able to continue them without... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1834 - 208 pages
...carrions,—happy were they could they find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast, (for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | Thomas Gaspey - 1836 - 1034 pages
...like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could fipd them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as...carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves.'" " Great God ! " exclaimed Nagle, " can it be possible ? What ! was the misery so urgent, that it caused... | |
 | 1832 - 448 pages
...they when they could find them ; yea and one another, sometime after ; insomuch that the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water cresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast." In this extremity of desolation was the south-west... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 568 pages
...did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...carrions happy when they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch, as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they Hocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
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Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where... 
