 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807
...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 shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withall,... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809
...happy were 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 660 pages
...happy were 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short... | |
 | John Curry - 1810
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses thev 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 there withal ; that, in short... | |
 | England - 1831
...dead 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;...if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817
...— 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-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast, for a time, yet... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 80 pages
...they were among the worst of the human species,* other soone 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 long to continue therewithall ; that in... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 651 pages
...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 watercresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in... | |
 | Ireland - 1816
...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 - 651 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,... | |
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... 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... 
