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Sketches in Ireland: descriptive of districts in the North and South [signed ... - Page 359
by Caesar Otway - 1827 - 80 pages
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Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral ...

Thomas Reid - 1823 - 456 pages
...the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of...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...
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Vindiciae Hibernicae, Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - 1823 - 534 pages
...the dead carrions, happy where they could fina them, yea, and one another soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of r water-cresses or shamrock's, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to...
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A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Lawless - 1823 - 362 pages
...happy where they could find them 'y 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that...
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Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ...

Thomas Moore - 1824 - 404 pages
...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...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 to continue there withal ; that...
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Researches in the south of Ireland, with an appendix [by J. Adams ...

Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 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 shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; —...
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Researches in the South of Ireland: Illustrative of the Scenery ...

Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 448 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 shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; —...
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Absenteeism

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - 200 pages
...break it ; and his fierce feuds with the Butlers, Earls yea, and one another soon after, inasmuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of...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 to continue them withal, that...
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The History of the Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland: From the ...

William Phelan - 1827 - 378 pages
...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 ; and if they found a plot of water cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 30

1831 - 1040 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 shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales,...
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The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 1

Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal,...
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