 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 422 pages
...countrey, full of corne 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... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - Church history - 1855 - 698 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plat of water-cresses, or shamrocks, to those 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if tbey found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal , that, in short space, there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...when speaking of the distress to which the Irish were reduced by the wars in Minister, he says : ' If they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time.' " Now, I take it that the singularity in this business is all on the side of Soane himself, who Mill... | |
 | Ireland - 1860 - 752 pages
...graves ; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another sooue 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... | |
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