 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...water cress or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost...populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast. Yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by extremity of famine,... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - History - 1998 - 196 pages
...watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost...and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly void of man and beast." Conquest of the populace by sword and starvation combined as strategies to... | |
 | John Wilson Foster, Helena C. G. Chesney - History - 1998 - 702 pages
...water cress or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost...populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast. Yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of... | |
 | James F. Lydon - History - 1998 - 440 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewith, that in short space there were none almost left and...populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast. Yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of... | |
 | Penry Williams - History - 1998 - 650 pages
...of death, they 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 plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . . .'." In July 1582 Baltinglass fled abroad and the revolt of the Pale was finished, leaving... | |
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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... 
