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" ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space... "
Some traditionall memorialls on the reign of Queene Elizabeth [by Francis ... - Page 116
by Walter Scott - 1811
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The Condition and Fate of England ...

Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water cresses, or shamrocks, to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal, that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and...
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Memoranda of Irish matters, by obscure men of good intention

Irish matters - 1844 - 98 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a. plot of watercresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, (yet not able to continue there withal) : that in a short space there was almost none left, and a most populous and...
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Ireland: Historical and Statistical, Volume 1

George Lewis Smyth - Ireland - 1844 - 388 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves : and if they found a plot of watercresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast for the time (yet not able to continue there withal) , that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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History of Ireland and the Irish People: Under the Government of England

Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful...
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The Life and Times of Aodh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster, Called by the English ...

John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves and devoure one another."! And so " in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey suddainly left voyde of man and beast." And starvation being in some instances too slow, crowds of...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798

Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue therewithall ; that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous country...
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The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire

Aengus O'Daly - Ireland - 1852 - 126 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able...there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey suddainley left voide of man and beaste ; yet sure in all that warre there perished...
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The tribes of Ireland: a satire, with poetical tr. by J. C. Mangan; together ...

Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able...there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey suddainley lefi voide of man and beaste ; yet sure in all that warre there perished...
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The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire

Aengus O'Daly - Ireland - 1852 - 124 pages
...serape out of their grates ; and if they found a plot of watereresses or shamroeks there they floeked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to eontinue therewithall, that in short spaee there were none almost left, and a most popalous and plentiful...
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