 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1848 - 280 pages
...insomuch as the carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves ; 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." * At a later period the same writer recommended that the... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...plentifull countrey, full of corne and cattle," says the inhabitants were reduced to such distress that, " if they found a plot of watercresses or Shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time." Mr. Jones, in his Historical Account of the Welsh Bards, 1 794, p. 13, tells us, in a note, that "... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 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... | |
 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...eat the dead carrions, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time There perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves... | |
 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could find them; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought.' The last words he... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves ; and if 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 short space there were none almost left, and a most populous country suddenly... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - Ireland - 1852 - 126 pages
...graves ; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 pages
...they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could ilnde them, yea and one another soone afier, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | 1898 - 854 pages
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 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 566 pages
...countrey, full of come and cattle," but that the inhabitants were now reduced to so much distress, that if they found " a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time." Many of us have in childhood looked diligently among the grasses of the meadow to find " a four-leaved... | |
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... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... 
