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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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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining ..., Volume 1

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1862 - 620 pages
...View of the State of Ireland." He says : — " Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they come creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could...out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, and if they found a plot of watercresses or tliamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast." An Irish...
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The Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern, Volume 2

Anthony Cogan - Ireland - 1867 - 584 pages
...wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner 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 out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could...
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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volume 8

James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 546 pages
...wretchedness 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...could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of CHAP vn death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; ,564 they did eat the dead carrions,...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1864 - 990 pages
...wretchedness, 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...their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, they did eat one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases...
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An ecclesiastical history of Ireland ... to ... 1829

Michael John Brenan - 1864 - 710 pages
...as that any stoney heart would have rued the same. Out of everv corner of the woods and glens they came, creeping forth up'on their hands, for their...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. TJiey did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could...
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History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin Since the Reformation

Patrick Francis Moran - Bishops - 1864 - 214 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...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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Ruined Abbeys and Castles in Great Britain and Ireland ...: 2d Ser.

William Howitt - Abbeys - 1864 - 254 pages
...wretchednefs, as that any ftrong heart would rue the fame. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they fpoke like ghofts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could...
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The Cruise of the "Humming Bird"; Or, Notes Near Home

Mark Hutton - Ireland - 1864 - 354 pages
...on their hands, for the 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, and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks, there...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 220

English essays - 1866 - 1004 pages
..."View of the State of Ireland during a Famine," " Out of every corner of the wods and glynnis they come creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could...out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions ; and if they found a plot of watercre.sses or shamrocks, they flocked as to a feast ;" and there are...
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The Glory and Shame of England, Volume 1

Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1866 - 312 pages
...the state he thus fearfully describes. He says," out of every corner of the woods and glynnes 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 eat the dead carrion, happy when they could find...
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