 | William Dool Killen - Church and state - 1875 - 572 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 long to continue therewithal; in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | William Dool Killen - Ireland - 1875 - 574 pages
...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 long to continue therewithal ; in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 928 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 long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull country suddenly left void of man and beast." The power of the Desmonds was now at an end.... | |
 | 1843 - 272 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, these 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... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 604 pages
...they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves .... that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is a picture, horribly graphic, of the state to which Munster... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 574 pages
...they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves .... that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast. Such is a picture, horribly graphic, of the state to which Minister... | |
 | Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1879 - 202 pages
...a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in a short space there...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,... | |
 | John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 204 pages
...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 to continue long therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 516 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 suddinly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that warre there perished not many by the sword,... | |
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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... 
