 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...were they when they could find them ; yea and one another, sometime after ; insomuch that the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water cresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast." In this extremity of desolation was... | |
 | 1838 - 544 pages
...dead carrions happy when they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch, as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamroi-k's, there they Hacked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal, —... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...dead carrions happy when 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 Hocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal, — that in short... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 pages
...carrions, 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 water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short... | |
 | Caesar Otway - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1839 - 414 pages
...were they •when they could find them; yea, and one another, some time after; insomuch that the very carcases 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 southwest of Cork... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 256 pages
...carrions, happy when 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 therewithal, that in short... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - Engraving - 1844 - 312 pages
...dead carrions, happy when 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 to continue there withal, — that in short... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 pages
...dead carrion, happy when they could find them, yea and one another soon after ; insomuch as the very carcases they spared 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 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 withal ; that in short space... | |
 | Irish matters - 1844 - 98 pages
...carrions, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another, soon after, in so much, that the very carcases they 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)... | |
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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... 
