 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 438 pages
...they when they could find them; yea and one another, sometime after; insomuch that the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast." In this extremity of desolation was the south-west of... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...happy where 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 water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves;...if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831 - 690 pages
...dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves...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... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...carrions, happy where 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 water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...happy where 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 water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...carrions, happy where 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 water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...carrions, happy where 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...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... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...carrion, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they ^found a plot of watercressee or shamrocks, they flocked as to a feast for the time. Yet not able to continue them without... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Home rule - 1834 - 208 pages
...carrions,—happy were they could they find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves;...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... | |
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... 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... 
