 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...title of a protecteress. Though the Dutch were no lesse hers by interest did eat the dead carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, here they flocked, as to a feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall, that in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not lo scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrock'!, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal,... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...graves; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could fina them, yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...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... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens,...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... | |
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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... 
