Greyheaded old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy, and women filthier and more frightful than the harpies, who at the jingle of a coin on the pavement swarmed in myriads from unseen places ; struggling, screaming,... Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 - Page 91by Melissa Fegan - 2002 - 292 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Phrenology - 1855 - 396 pages
...old men, who;e idiot faces had settled into a hardened leer of mendicancy, sirnious and semi-human; and women filthier and more frightful than the harpies,...screaming, shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous unclean animals. In Westport, the sight of a priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population,... | |
| John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 404 pages
...Greyhaired old men, whose faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy, sinuous and semi-human ; and women filthier and more frightful than the harpies,...screaming, shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous unclean animals. In Westport, the sight of a priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population,... | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor - Home rule - 1891 - 728 pages
...faces settled into a leer of hardened mendicancy, and women filthier and more frightful than ha pies, who at the jingle of a coin on the pavement swarmed...struggling, screaming, shrieking for their prey like monstrous and unclean animals, 1 AM Sullivan'* New Inland, pp. 67, 68. r Beggar-children, beggar-girls,... | |
| Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1892 - 298 pages
...Yahoos of Swift — creatures having only a distant and hideous resemblance to human beings. Greyheaded old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled...shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals. In Westport the sight of the priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population, thick... | |
| Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Authors, English - 1892 - 322 pages
...Yahoos of Swift — creatures having only a distant and hideous resemblance to human beings. Greyheaded old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled...shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals.) In Westport the sight of the priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population, thick... | |
| Great Britain - 1892 - 980 pages
...Yahoos of Swift — creatures having only a distant and hideous resemblance to human beings. Greyheaded old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled...shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals. In Westport the sight of the priest on the street gathered an entire pauper population, thick... | |
| Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Authors, English - 1892 - 292 pages
...Yahoos of Swift—creatures having only a distant and hideous resemblance to human beings. Greyheaded old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy, and women f1lthier and more frightful than the harpies, who at the jingle of a coin on the pavement swarmed in... | |
| David Alec Wilson - Authors, Scottish - 1927 - 546 pages
...resemblance to human beings. Grey-headed old men, whose idiotic faces had hardened into a settled lear of mendicancy, and women filthier and more frightful...shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals.' As a relief to such horrors, Carlyle was taken to the suburb of Claddagh, 'inhabited only... | |
| American essays - 1900 - 1008 pages
...into a settled leer of mendicancy, simious and semihuman, and women filthier and more frightful than harpies, who, at the jingle of a coin on the pavement,...screaming, shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous, unclean animals. . . . Girls with faces gray and shriveled, the grave stamped upon them in a decree... | |
| Robert Dare - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1997 - 232 pages
...old men, whose idiot faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy, simeous and semi-human; and women filthier and more frightful than the harpies,...shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and unclean animals . . . Beggar children, beggar adults, beggars in white hairs, girls with faces grey and shrivelled,... | |
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