 ... anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, 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...  The History of England - Page 539by Thomas Keightley - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Absentee landlordism - 1825 - 200 pages
...Irish fashion of being occasionally disposed to break it ; and his fierce feuds with the Butlers, Earls yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue them withal, that in short space there was none almost left ; and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...eat the dead carrions, 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 water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 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...or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors of war were also freatly aggravated by... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831 - 690 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...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 none left, and... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...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 none left, and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after ; insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...or shamrocks, there they 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... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...eat the dead carrions, 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 water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
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