 ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short...  The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire - Page 80by Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Celtic philology - 1914 - 232 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...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal." In the North the Irish chiefs held out still ; but in Munster, since Mountjoy came in... | |
 | Redfern Mason - Folk music - 1910 - 352 pages
...they did eat of the dead carrions—happy were they if they could find them—yea, one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...feast for the time, yet, not able long to continue there withal, that in short time there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1910 - 800 pages
...out of theyr graves ; anj yf they founde a plotte of water-creases or sham-rokes, there they docked as to a. feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in shortc space there were none allmost left, and a most populous and plentifuil countrey suddaynly made... | |
 | Arminianism - 1843 - 1098 pages
...carrions, happy when 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...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space there were none left; and a most populous, plentiful country, suddenly... | |
 | William Hale White - 1915 - 342 pages
...spared not to ' scrape out of theyr graves ; and yf they ' foundeaplotte of water-cressesorsham-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 1 left, and a most populous and plentifull ' countrey suddaynly... | |
 | Herman Joseph Heuser - Authors, Irish - 1917 - 458 pages
...carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and, if they found a plot of water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue wherewithal; that in short space there were none left, and a most populous and plentiful country was... | |
 | Archives - 1917 - 1082 pages
...to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there the}7 flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in a short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Agriculture - 1918 - 556 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...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in short space there were none almost left." But he defends the abominable cruelties... | |
 | Edward Raymond Turner - Ireland - 1919 - 522 pages
...such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth upon their hands,...there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey suddainely left voyde of man and beast. . . .2 The details of the struggle have... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - Irish literature - 1919 - 240 pages
...spared not to scrape out of theyr graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrokes, p there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet...therewithall ; that in short space there were none allmost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey suddaynely left voyde of man or beast ; yet... | |
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