 ... 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 long to continue therewithal; that in short space...  The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir - Page 214by Charles Owen O'Conor O'Conor Don, John O'Donovan - 1891 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous 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... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a 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... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...flocked as to a 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... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long 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... | |
 | Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...nocked as to a 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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country SUDDAINLY LEFT VOYDF. OF MAN AND BEAST."99 * " And here you may see the nature and disposition of this... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast, for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddainely left voyde of man and beast ; yet, sure in all that warre, there perished not many by the... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...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 populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is the description of the desolation and misery depicted on one of the... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue them withal, that in short space there "as none almost left; and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." — State of Ireland, 1681. Ireland, when the domestic tumults of the great... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast*." The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits. Five hundred... | |
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