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" ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... "
Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 36
by Irishman - 1840
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Ireland's Case for Freedom: Written in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in the ...

Laurence Ginnell - Ireland - 1921 - 144 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;...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; that in short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey...
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The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland

Seumas MacManus - Ireland - 1921 - 762 pages
...third beast is a Tory," etc. carrions, happy where they could finde them; yea, and one another soone after; insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...to a feast for the time ; yet, not able to continue there withal; that in shorte space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey...
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The Story of the Irish Nation

Francis Hackett - Ireland - 1922 - 428 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,...watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none...
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Irish History from Contemporary Sources (1509-1610)

Constantia Maxwell - Ireland - 1923 - 406 pages
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The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research ..., Volume 6

Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923 - 960 pages
...woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for the timer that in short space of time there were none [ie no people] almost left, and a most populous and...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: Edited from the Original Editions and Manuscripts

Edmund Spenser - 1929 - 808 pages
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A Concise History of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to 1908

Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1924 - 352 pages
...woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for the time : that in short space of time there were none [ie no people] almost left, and a most populous and plentifull...
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Essays

William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 556 pages
...they spared not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal!; that in short space there were none allmost left, and a most populous...
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Ben Jonson, Volume 10

Ben Jonson - 1950 - 732 pages
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Spenser

Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 pages
...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat of the dead carrions, happy were they if they could find them, yea, and one another soon after,...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...
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