 | 1824
...carrions, yea, ana one another soon nfter; insomuch ai the veri/ carcasses they spared not to scrap« out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses...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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Absentee landlordism - 1825 - 159 pages
...to break it ; and his fierce feuds with the Butlers, Earls yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue them withal, that in short space there was none almost left ; and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 315 pages
...carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal : so that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space there were none left, and a most populous plentiful... | |
 | Scotland - 1831
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and...shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors of war were also freatly aggravated by th ose of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832
...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... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832
...death, they spoke 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,...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space there were none left, and a most populous, plentiful... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832
...carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal: so that, in short space, there was none almost led, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | English literature - 1863
...them ; they looked like anatomies of death j they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves," &c., "and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast," &c. In Wyther's " Abuses Stript and Whipt," London, 1613, p. 71, is the following passage : — " And,... | |
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... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... 
