 ... 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...  Absenteeism - Page 17by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...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 shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withall,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 388 pages
...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, of shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there... | |
 | Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...carrions;—happy were they that 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-cressss or shamrocks, there they nocked as to a feast for a time, yet not being able to continue... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...eate the dead carrions, happy where they could fina them, yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of r water-cresses or shamrock's, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to... | |
 | Caesar Otway - Ireland - 1827 - 462 pages
...carrion, happy were they when they could find them ; yea and one another, sometime after ; insomuch that the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of...graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast." In this extremity of desolation was the south-west of... | |
 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 438 pages
...carrion, happy were they when they could find them; yea and one another, sometime after; insomuch that the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of...graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast." In this extremity of desolation was the south-west of... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after ; insomuch 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 the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after; insomuch 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 the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrion, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very...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... | |
 | Ireland - 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... | |
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