 | Constantia Maxwell - Ireland - 1923 - 408 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 long to continue there withal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 556 pages
...spared not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal!; that in short space there were none allmost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1927 - 454 pages
...not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and yf they founde a plot of water-cresses or sham-rokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in shorte space there were none allmost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1074 pages
...plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the 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,... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 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 these withal ; that in short space there were none almost left. Then, a hundred and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 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 these withal; that in short space there were none almost left." 35 Then, a hundred... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...this hard restraint, they would quickly consume themselves and devour one another." Again : '•Ina short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful! countrey suddainly left voyde of man and beast." The soldiers supplemented the exterminating action... | |
 | Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Martin, Francis John Byrne - History - 1991 - 870 pages
...In such circumstances, the ultimate destruction of which Spenser is the classic chronicler — 'in short space there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast'4 — was inevitable, and it was inevitable too that Spenser and... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...spared not to scrape out their graves, and if they found a plot of water cress 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 and... | |
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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... 
