 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1074 pages
...there they thronged as to a feast for the time : yet not able long to continue there withal : that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast : yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine.1... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...this hard restraint, they would quickly consume themselves and devour one another." Again : '•Ina short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful! countrey suddainly left voyde of man and beast." The soldiers supplemented the exterminating action... | |
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... they could find them ; yea, and one another soon 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... 
