 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and VOL. i. 3 q beast."* The other provinces had no Spencer to record the favours conferred on them by... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...most populous and plentiful country suddenly left »oid of man and beast. — Slate of Inland, p. 158. the cause, and means, -which were found and devised... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...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...almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country ludJenly left, void of man and beast. — State of Inland, p. ISS. , the cause, and means, which were... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...feast, for a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." &c.» O Nial, deserted by his adherents, and destitute of resources, began now to think seriously of... | |
 | Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...feast for a time, yet not being able to continue there withal, in a short space of time there were none almost left; and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void both of man and beast: yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is the description of the desolation and misery depicted on one of the fairest portions of Ireland... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 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...and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly became void of man and beast/' In the Earl of Ormond's services against Desmond, the destruction of... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1824 - 448 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...and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly became void of man and beast." In the Earl of Ormond's services against Desmond, the destruction of... | |
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... 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 long to continue there withal; that, in short space, there were... 
