 | Robert King - 1846 - 496 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 a time, yet not able to continue there... | |
 | Adam Blenkinsop, Sir William Henry Gregory - 1847 - 282 pages
...eate the dead carrions; yea, and one another * Temple's " History of the Rebellion," Preface. soone after; insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of the graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of their 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... | |
 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...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 There perished not many by... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 126 pages
...graves ; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...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... | |
 | Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 pages
...they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could ilnde them, yea and one another soone afier, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to...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... | |
 | Walter Bourchier Devereux - 1853 - 604 pages
...of death ; they " spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they " did eat the dead carcases, they spared not to scrape " out of their graves ;...they found a plot of " water cresses or shamrocks, here they flocked as " to a feast. A most populous and plentiful county " was suddenly left void of... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1855 - 698 pages
...death — they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves — they ate the dead carrion, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after...to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plat of water-cresses, or shamrocks, to those they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able... | |
 | Martin A. O'Brennan - 1855 - 386 pages
...their hands, their legges would not bear them, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, . . . the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves . . . . in a short time a most populous and plentiful country suddainely left voide of man and beaste... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 pages
...one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if tbey found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet... | |
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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... 
