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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... "
The History of the Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland: From the ... - Page 167
by William Phelan - 1827 - 315 pages
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History of England: Elizabeth

James Anthony Froude - 1879 - 606 pages
...graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, they did eat one anothe? soon 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 a time. Yet were they not all long...
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The History of Landholding in Ireland

Joseph Fisher (F.R.H.S.) - 1877 - 176 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there...
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The Ulster Civil War of 1641: And Its Consequences; with the History of the ...

John McDonnell - 1879 - 218 pages
...carrions—happy where they could find them, yea, and one another some time after, inasmuch 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 nocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue long...
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Spenser

Richard William Church - 1879 - 204 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after, insomuch that 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 long to continue...
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The Ulster Civil War of 1641: And Its Consequences; with the History of the ...

John McDonnell - 1879 - 204 pages
...happy where they could find them, yea, and one another some time after, inasmuch 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 to continue...
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The Trials of the Church: Or, The Persecutors of Religion, Volume 1

William Gleeson - 1880 - 592 pages
...did eat the dead carrion happy where 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 nocked as to a great feast for the time, and not able to continue...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography: Second Series

1880 - 566 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after, insomuch that 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 nocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 9

1881 - 1120 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 water-cresses or shamrocks there, they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue...
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A Short History of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the ...

Charles George Walpole - 1882 - 668 pages
...carrions, where they did find them, yea, and one another soon after, in as much as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watcrcresses or shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue...
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Irish Essays: And Others

Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 344 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 water-cresses or shamrocks there, they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue...
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