 | 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... | |
 | Maurice Lenihan - 1866 - 820 pages
...yea and one another soone after, inasmuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves; and if they found. a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they Hocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Ireland - 1867 - 502 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...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue therewithall ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...dead carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, they did eat 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. Yet were they not all long to continue there withal ; so that in short space of time, there... | |
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... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... 
