 Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions — happy where...  Absenteeism - Page 16by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...cattle. — Yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them: they looked... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...cattle.— Yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such wretchedness, a* that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...cattle.— Yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that anv stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...and cattle, yet ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any heart would rue the same ; out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...of forfeiting his estates) the natives were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stoney heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glyns they cnme creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them, they looked like anatomies... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 pages
...impressive picture of the calamitous effects of civil warfare. He tells us, that " any L stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they" (the people of Munster) " came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1824 - 448 pages
...impressive picture of the calamitous effects of civil warfare. He tells us, that " any L stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they" (the people of Munster) " came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...country, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them : they looked like... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...country, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them: they looked like... | |
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