 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 pages
...death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, and one another soon after,...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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Ireland - 1861 - 222 pages
...eat .the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, in so much as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; so that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Anthony Cogan - Ireland - 1867 - 584 pages
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...another soon after, in- .£&,,,. of somuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape Munsti!''out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses...or shamrocks, there 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...another soon after, in- state of somuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape JIuusterout of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses...or shamrocks, there 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... | |
 | Patrick Francis Moran - Bishops - 1864 - 214 pages
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after,...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there long withal, so that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | 1864 - 990 pages
...where they could find them ; yea, they did eat one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time." If all be not a fable that Irish historians have related of the humanity of its people before... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - 1864 - 710 pages
...themielvei, and devour one another. The proof whereof I uaw sufficiently in the late warres of Munster." and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks,...they flocked, as to a feast, for the time; yet, not being able long to continue therewithal, that in a short space there were none almost remaining, and... | |
 | Mark Hutton - Ireland - 1864 - 354 pages
...eat the dead carrions : yea, happy were they who could find them, and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time : yet not being able to continue long there withal.' " " There were no Relief Committees in those days," remarked... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1866 - 312 pages
...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 there withal, that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
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... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... 
