 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...dead carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, they did eat one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for a time. Yet were they not all long to continue there withal ; so that in short space of time, there... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...dead carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, they did eat one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out...found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they nocked, as to a feast for a time. Yet were they not all long to continue there withal ; so that in... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - American essays - 1894 - 454 pages
...spake like ghosts crying out of their graves — they ate the dead carrion, happy when they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after ; insomuch...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... | |
 | Alexander George Richey - Ireland - 1870 - 508 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in short space... | |
 | William Steuart Trench - 1871 - 400 pages
...graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them ; yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of exterminating wars ; but it was only when access was obtained to the State Papers of the period that... | |
 | Isaac Butt - Federal government - 1871 - 132 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 if they found a plot of water cresses or sham-rocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue... | |
 | Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1872 - 794 pages
...when they could finde them, yea and one another aooue after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spard not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there tht? flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal : that in short... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carions, happy where they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withall, that in short space there were none almost left,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1879 - 606 pages
...graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, they did eat one anothe? soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time. Yet were they not all long to continue therewithal, so that in short space there were none... | |
 | Eleanor Hull - Ireland - 1926 - 652 pages
...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, insomuch as...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... | |
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... 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... 
