 | Seumas MacManus - Ireland - 1921 - 719 pages
...third beast is a Tory," etc. 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 there withal; that in shorte space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey... | |
 | Francis Hackett - Ireland - 1922 - 402 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,...watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923
...woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for the timer that in short space of time there were none [ie no people] almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 538 pages
...they spared not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal!; that in short space there were none allmost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1881
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 486 pages
...happy where 30 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." 35 Then, a hundred... | |
 | Terence Brown - English literature - 1988 - 262 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 [. . .].' Canny suggests that the English or Anglo-Irish in Ireland were... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 315 pages
...very carcasses they spared not to scrape out their graves, and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks, there 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 and... | |
 | James F. Lydon - History - 1998 - 425 pages
...very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves. and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks. there they flocked as to a feast for the time. yet not able long to continue therewith. that in short space there were none almost left and a most populous and... | |
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