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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... "
Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical ... - Page 517
by Martin John Spalding - 1894
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Vindiciæ Hibernicæ: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their handes, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one an93 Hollinshed, VI. 459....
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A Statistical Account, Or Parochial Survey of Ireland: Drawn Up ..., Volume 2

Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...Out at faery corner of the woods and glyns, they came out, creeping forth on their hands and feet, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions;—happy were they that...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh: For a Period of 1373 Years ...

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...them. They looked like anatomies * Fjr.«s Moryson, vol. 2, p, 263, f Ibid, p, 1 7S- } Ibid, p. 200, of death — they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eate tlie deade carrions — happy where they could find them ; yea, and one another .soon after,...
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The Inquirer, Volume 1

1822 - 764 pages
...everie corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth on their hands, for their legges would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death...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...
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Considerations on the Present State of Ireland: And on the Best Means of ...

Irishman - Ireland - 1822 - 48 pages
...everie corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth on their hands, for their legges would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death;...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;...
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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...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves : they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them 'y yea, and one another soon after, insomuch...
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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...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves : they did eat the dead carrions, .happy where they could find them ; yea, and one onother soon a?er; and...
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Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral ...

Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of...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...
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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...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, insomuch,...
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Researches in the South of Ireland: Illustrative of the Scenery ...

Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1824 - 448 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...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, insomuch,...
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