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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... "
Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ...
by Thomas Moore - 1824 - 376 pages
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 2

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,...
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 2

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...
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Some traditionall memorialls on the reign of Queene Elizabeth [by Francis ...

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...
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A Statistical Account, Or Parochial Survey of Ireland: Drawn Up ..., Volume 2

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...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh

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,...
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Vindiciae Hibernicae, Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and ...

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...
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The History of the Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland: From the ...

William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their...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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Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting, and Hitherto Unnoticed ...

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...
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Sketches in Ireland: descriptive of districts in the North and South [signed ...

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...
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The remains of William Phelan [ed. by M. Phelan]. With a biogr ..., Volume 2

William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...wretchedness, as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their...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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