 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 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 could not bear them. They looked anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions,... | |
 | John Ranelagh - History - 1994 - 340 pages
...every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat of the dead carrions, happy were they if they could find them, yea, and one after another soon... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - History - 1997 - 206 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...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... | |
 | Penry Williams - History - 1998 - 650 pages
...of devastation was unleashed in Ireland, its grim results described by Spenser: from woods and glens people came Creeping forth upon their hands, for their...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrsons ... In short space there were none almost left and a most populous and... | |
 | James F. Lydon - History - 1998 - 440 pages
...retchedness. as 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 anatomies of death. they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves. they did eat of the dead carrions.... | |
 | John Wilson Foster, Helena C. G. Chesney - History - 1998 - 702 pages
...centuries later haunted Seamus Heaney into poetry: 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 anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions,... | |
 | Sonja Massie - History - 1999 - 296 pages
...and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves." —Edmund Spenser, English poet, writing about the people of Munster during the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | David Power Conyngham - Martyrs - 2001 - 267 pages
...as that any stoney 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...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... | |
 | Kristen Guest - Social Science - 2001 - 234 pages
...these results from a famine during the war in Munster: "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; yea and one another soon after, in so... | |
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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... 
