| William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...rue 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 death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
| Caesar Otway - 1827 - 438 pages
...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, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrion, happy were they when they... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831 - 690 pages
...Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes,' says he, ' they come creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them, they looked like...crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases... | |
| Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes," says he, " they come creeping forth upon their bands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like...crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns 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 ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
| William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...rue 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 death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
| William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...rue the same ; out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth on their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like...crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrion, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses... | |
| English literature - 1863 - 432 pages
...state : — " 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 j they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves," &c., "and if they found a plot of water-cresses... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Home rule - 1834 - 208 pages
...rue the same. Out of every comer of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like...they did eat the dead carrions,—happy were they could they find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not... | |
| Thomas Gaspey - 1836 - 1034 pages
...of every corner of the woods and glynns, the people of Muaster came creeping forth on their hands, for their legs could 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 when they could... | |
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