 | Laurence Ginnell - Ireland - 1921 - 144 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;...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; that in short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Ireland - 1921 - 762 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 - 428 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 - 960 pages
...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... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1924 - 352 pages
...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 time : that in short space of time there were none [ie no people] almost left, and a most populous and plentifull... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Essays - 1918 - 554 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... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 pages
...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat of the dead carrions, happy were they if 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 therewithal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Eleanor Hull - Ireland - 1926 - 652 pages
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eat dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea and one another soon after,...water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast . . . ; in a short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1927 - 452 pages
...spared not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and yf they founde a plot of water-cresses or sham-rokes, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in shorte space there were none allmost left, and a most populous... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 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... | |
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