| Joseph Fisher (F.R.H.S.) - Land tenure - 1877 - 176 pages
...carrions, happy when 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...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal, so that in short space there was none almost left, and... | |
| 1843 - 272 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, these 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... | |
| John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 204 pages
...happy where they could find them, yea, and one another some time after, inasmuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull... | |
| Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1879 - 204 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after, insomuch that 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, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in a short space there were none almost left,... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1881 - 1120 pages
...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 these withal ; that in short space there were none almost left. Then, a hundred and... | |
| James Aitken Wylie - 1881 - 160 pages
...carcases 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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Copyright - 1882 - 344 pages
...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 these withal ; that in short space there were none almost left. Then, a hundred and... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 534 pages
...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 these withal ; that in short space there were none almost left. " Then, a hundred... | |
| Biography - 1883 - 776 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after, insomuch that 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, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in a short space there were none almost left,... | |
| James Britten - Plant names, Popular - 1886 - 676 pages
...speaking of the fearful destitution to which the Irish had been reduced by the wars of Munster — ' If they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time.' Holinshed (Chron. I. 45 (1577-87) has 'Water cresses, which they toarme Shamrocks'; Speed... | |
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