 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of their 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 out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...these late wars of Munster,' he writes, in 1596, ' out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...could find them; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...every corner of the woods they came creepin forth upon their hands, for their legs coul not bear them. They spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat carrions, happy if they could find them ; and if they found a plot of water cresses,or«A<i»iroc&«,... | |
 | Walter Bourchier Devereux - Nobility - 1853 - 604 pages
...their hands, for their legs would not bear " them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they " spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they " did eat the dead carcases, they spared not to scrape " out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of " water cresses... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - Church history - 1855 - 698 pages
...possession of his estate in Ireland : " Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they (the people) 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 ate the dead carrion, happy when they could find... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens 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... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1864 - 750 pages
...as that any stony heart would hare rited the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; and they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; and... | |
 | H. Marie Martin - 1860 - 20 pages
...heart * Leland, Book 2, chap. 3. would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and gljims, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of thtir graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 pages
...wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens 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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Ireland - 1861 - 222 pages
...upon their hands, for their legs 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, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, in so much as the very carcasses they... | |
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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... 
