 ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked...  Limerick: its history and antiquities - Page 110by Maurice Lenihan - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1903 - 332 pages
...ere one yeare and a halfe they [the people] were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony hart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks there they... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1904 - 586 pages
...ere one yeare and a halfe they [the people] were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony hart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | Ireland - 1904 - 276 pages
...have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and one half they were brought to such 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 could not bear them: they looked like... | |
 | John O'Neill - 1904 - 164 pages
...should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such 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 could not bear them; they looked like... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1072 pages
...have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and one half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they caine creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them : they looked... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 456 pages
...cattle, yet ere one yeare and a halfe the people were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony hart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they found a plot of 'watercresses or shamrocks there they... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such 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 could not bear them ; they looked like... | |
 | William Gilbert Gosling - America - 1911 - 368 pages
...thirty miles nor ever find a house standing, and the miserable poor were brought to such 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Ireland - 1911 - 440 pages
...were brought to such wretchedness, that even a heart of stone would have rued to see the same; for out of every corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth on their hands and knees, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death;... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1912 - 358 pages
...ere one yeare and a halfe they [the people] were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony hart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnea they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they... | |
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