 | Martin John Spalding - American essays - 1894 - 454 pages
...shamrocks, to those 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 plentiful country was suddenly left void of man and beast." 3 These are but single pages in the long and sad... | |
 | William Waterworth - 1869 - 206 pages
...ghosts crying out of their graves ; they •did eat dead carrions ; happy were they who could find them. In a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and beautiful country was suddenly void of man and beast " — and say if the persecuted could have felt... | |
 | Alexander George Richey - Ireland - 1870 - 508 pages
...there they thronged as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet, sure in all that war there perished not many by... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...they flocked as to a feast for a time. Yet were they not all long to continue therewithal, so that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country was suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet surely in all that war there perished not many... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 928 pages
...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 left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure, in all that war, there perished not many by... | |
 | 1843 - 272 pages
...these they flocked as to a feast for the time, — yet not able long to continue therewithal! ; that in short space there were none almost left and a most populous and plentifull countrey left void of man and beast." — -A View of Ireland, by Edmund Spenser, Esq., in... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull country suddenly left void of man and beast." The power of the Desmonds was now at an end.... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 574 pages
...they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves .... that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast. Such is a picture, horribly graphic, of the state to which... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 604 pages
...they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves .... that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is a picture, horribly graphic, of the state to... | |
 | Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1879 - 202 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the... | |
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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 therewithal; that in short space... 
