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... brogues ? " said Cor- ney irrelevantly . " It isn't about brogues or boots I've come to talk , " Toal said , severely . " I'll talk brogues to ye when I'm on me workbench . " 66 Thanky ! " said Corney , caustically . " I'd sooner far ye ...
... brogues ? " said Cor- ney irrelevantly . " It isn't about brogues or boots I've come to talk , " Toal said , severely . " I'll talk brogues to ye when I'm on me workbench . " 66 Thanky ! " said Corney , caustically . " I'd sooner far ye ...
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... brogues as soon as he gets out of hands a pair of his rev- erence's that he's now upon . " " Thanky , " Corney said very dryly . " In throth his reverence ( by the laive of his coat ) might very well a - waited till I was supplied ...
... brogues as soon as he gets out of hands a pair of his rev- erence's that he's now upon . " " Thanky , " Corney said very dryly . " In throth his reverence ( by the laive of his coat ) might very well a - waited till I was supplied ...
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... brogues - Here we are ! " They pulled up and went into John Burns ' . " Friend Pathrick and friend Higarty , Simmy- rammis was a most wondherful woman , " John greeted them , as , inserting a scrap of cotton lin- ing between the pages ...
... brogues - Here we are ! " They pulled up and went into John Burns ' . " Friend Pathrick and friend Higarty , Simmy- rammis was a most wondherful woman , " John greeted them , as , inserting a scrap of cotton lin- ing between the pages ...
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... brogues in the baronry , " which , if it en- lightened little Nuala not much , brought Pat their requital in the blushing gratification of the eulogized . " Ye'll like us better , daughter , when ye know us more , " Corney said to Nuala ...
... brogues in the baronry , " which , if it en- lightened little Nuala not much , brought Pat their requital in the blushing gratification of the eulogized . " Ye'll like us better , daughter , when ye know us more , " Corney said to Nuala ...
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... brogues half - soled - whisked him off with them , and the first thing he knew he was at the foot of Croagh Pathrick mountain in Mayo , and the next place he found himself was in the County of Maith , and there wasn't a corner of ...
... brogues half - soled - whisked him off with them , and the first thing he knew he was at the foot of Croagh Pathrick mountain in Mayo , and the next place he found himself was in the County of Maith , and there wasn't a corner of ...
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a-merry afore afther asked Athlone Bacach Fad ballads bekase Billy Brogan Billy's birds brásna brogues bush cheer Corney Higarty Corney's Dan O'Connell delight Dinny O'Friel Dionysius ditch Donegal door Ellen Burns eyes Father felt fetch fire gave ginirally girl give Glen Ainey boys Glenboran Glenties goin hand happy head heart heerd hills Histh'ry Irelan John Burns knew Knockagar laive larn laugh loch loved Master Matt McCourt meself mornin neighbors never night nixt Nuala Owen a-Slaivin Pat's Pathrick penny replied ribbon sciog sent his lady Shan shook Shusie siege of Dunboy smiled sore stood sure Susie tell tenpenny thank there's thought Tim Griffin Toal a-Gallagher Toal's took turned Uncle Donal Uncle Pat Vagabone voice watching whilst Widow's Widow's Pat wonder wurrl ye know ye'll ye're yerself young
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Page 65 - Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!
Page 38 - Boy [T was early, early in the spring, The birds did whistle and sweetly sing, Changing their notes from tree to tree, And the song they sang was Old Ireland free.
Page 259 - As soon as Willie spoke She handed him a blunderbuss from underneath her cloak. Then with his loaded blunderbuss, the truth I will unfold, He made the Mayor to tremble, and robbed him of his gold: One hundred pounds was offered for his apprehension there.
Page 260 - So they were taken prisoners, in irons they were bound, And conveyed to Clonmel jail, strong walls did them surround; They were tried and found guilty, the judge made this reply, "For robbing on the King's highway you are both condemned to die.
Page 259 - Willie he sat down, He met the Mayor of Cashel, a mile outside the town; The Mayor he knew his features, "I think, young man," said he, "Your name is Willie Brennan, you must come along with me.
Page 259 - A brace of loaded pistols he carried night and day ; He never robbed a poor man upon the king's highway ; But what he'd taken from the rich, like Turpin and Black Bess, He always did divide it with the widow in distress.
Page 260 - Farewell unto my wife, and to my children three, Likewise my aged father, he may shed tears for me, And to my loving mother, who tore her gray locks and cried, Saying, "I -wish, Willie Brennan, in your cradle you had died.
Page 142 - Vagabone away; yet, partly because she was decidedly getting the better of it, but chiefly, perhaps, because I was seized with the desire to conceal myself, I had not made any demonstration of sympathy, and did not intend to do so. On the instant, though, that I saw her draw her hand across her eyes, I sprang forward wrathfully and struck the Vagabone a fierce box on the side of his head, which sent him staggering against the ditch. When he recovered himself, he looked at me for just a moment, puzzledly;...
Page 106 - that the Masther 'll spend a deal of money on her? " "Och, the Masther!" Billy said, lightly. " He's a rag on every bush; there'll not be six girls in the fair he'll not be putting the comether * on.
Page 112 - Attention pay both young and old Unto these lines I do unfold, The deeds of brave Napoleon, sure, I'm going for to relate; How, many years most manfullie He struggled hard for libertie — A most immortial hairo was Napoleon Boneypart.