 ... anatomies of 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, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves...  The London Magazine - Page 5901824Full view - About this book
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1843 - 336 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water cresses, or shamrocks, to these 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 country suddenly left... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pages
...find them, yea, and one another soon after ; insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of...to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Irish matters - 1844 - 98 pages
...them ; yea, and one another, soon after, in so much, that the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a. plot of watercresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, (yet not able to continue there withal)... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1844 - 388 pages
...them ; yea, and one another soon after, — insomuch that the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves : and if they found a plot of watercresses and shamrock, there they flocked as to a feast for the time (yet not able to continue there withal)... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - 1845 - 528 pages
...find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves — and if they found a plot of...there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue therewithal, that in a short space there were none almost remaining and... | |
 | Robert King - 1846 - 496 pages
...find them, yea and one another soon after; insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of...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... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pages
...find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of watercresses...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space, there was none almost left,... | |
 | Adam Blenkinsop, Sir William Henry Gregory - 1847 - 282 pages
...Rebellion," Preface. soone after; insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of the graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; yea, not able to continue there withal ; that in shorte space there was none almost left, and a most... | |
 | George Soane - 1847 - 360 pages
...; when speaking of the distress, to which the Irish were reduced by the wars in Munster, he says, " if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time." View of the State of Ireland, AD 1596, Fol. Dublin, 1633. p. 72. That the Irish used the shamrock for... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1848 - 280 pages
...insomuch as the carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves ; and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not being able to continue long there withal." * At a later period the same writer recommended that the... | |
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