 | Patrick Francis Moran - Bishops - 1864 - 214 pages
...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 there long withal, so that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1866 - 312 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water cresses, or shamrocks, to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able...almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Even a poet's heart could refuse sympathy with such suffering,... | |
 | Maurice Lenihan - 1866 - 820 pages
...shamrocks, there they Hocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentyfull country suddainely left voyde of man and beast/'* 1 The Glen of Aherlow, four miles south... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Ireland - 1867 - 502 pages
...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 therewithall ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey... | |
 | Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1867 - 798 pages
...thty flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal : that in sliort space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful! country suddainely left voyde of man and beast" (Stale of Ireland, p. ICC). Similar pictures of the frightful... | |
 | John Mitchel - Tyrone's Rebellion, 1597-1603 - 1868 - 286 pages
...abroad, by this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves and devoure one aaother." j And so " in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentif nil eountrey suddainly left voyde of man and beast." And starvation being in some instances... | |
 | Alexander George Richey - Ireland - 1870 - 508 pages
...there they thronged as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet, sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword,... | |
 | William Waterworth - 1869 - 206 pages
...ghosts crying out of their graves ; they •did eat dead carrions ; happy were they who could find them. In a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and beautiful country was suddenly void of man and beast " — and say if the persecuted could have felt... | |
 | Isaac Butt - Federal government - 1871 - 132 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water cresses or sham-rocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withall; so that in a short space there were none almost left; and a most populous... | |
 | Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1872 - 794 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal : that in short spa« there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful! country suddainely left voyde of man and beast." (Slate of Ireland, p. 166). Similar pictures of the frightful... | |
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... 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 there withal; that in short space... 
