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" Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves... "
Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 36
by Irishman - 1840
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Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: Since the ...

Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 544 pages
...they looked like ana" tomies of death : they spake like ghostes crying " out of their graves ; they eat the dead carrions, " happy when they could find...them; yea, and one " another soon after, insomuch that the very car" cases they spared not to scrape out of their " graves." Lord Clare, in the speech...
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Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: Since the ...

Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 546 pages
...they looked like ana" tomies of death : they spake like ghostes crying " out of their graves ; they eat the dead carrions, " happy when they could find...them ; yea, and one " another soon after, insomuch that the very car" cases they spared not to scrape out of their " graves." Lord Clare, in the speech...
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Considerations on the Present State of Ireland: And on the Best Means of ...

Irishman - Ireland - 1822 - 48 pages
...their hands, for their legges would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions; yea, happy were they who could find them; yea, and one another soon after; insomuch as the carcases...
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Historical Memoirs of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: Since the ...

Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 538 pages
...tomies of death: they spake like ghostes crying " out of their graves; they eat the dead carrions, 11 happy when they could find them; yea, and one " another soon after, insomuch that the very car" cases they spared not to scrape out of their "graves." ' Lord Clare, in the speech...
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The Grave of O'Neill with Other Poems

Hugh Clarke - 1823 - 88 pages
...although not the immediate theatre of vyar and famine : " Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...bear them. They looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves : they did eat the dead carrions, .happy where they could...
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A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...wretchedness, as that any heart would rue the same ; out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves : they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could...
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Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral ...

Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...
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The London Magazine, Volume 9

1824 - 706 pages
...wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every comer of the woods and glynns, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying put of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, yea, ana one another...
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Researches in the south of Ireland, with an appendix [by J. Adams ...

Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 pages
...heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they" (the people of Munster) " came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...them — they looked like anatomies of death. They spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...wretchedness, as that any etoney heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glyns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...bear them, they looked like anatomies of death, they shake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrion, happy when they could...
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