 | Francis Hackett - 1922 - 428 pages
...eat 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal;... | |
 | Eleanor Hull - 1926 - 652 pages
...did eat 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 . . . ; in a short space there was none almost left, and... | |
 | Emile Legouis - 1926 - 164 pages
...dead carrions, happy were they if 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 long to continue therewithal;... | |
 | 1904 - 1074 pages
...eat the dead carrions, happy when they could find them : 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the time : yet not able long to continue there withal... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 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 long to continue these withal... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 pages
...happy where 30 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 long to continue these withal;... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 pages
...eat 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. It was these starving wretches upon whom the bedraggled survivors of the Armada fell when a lucky remnant... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...eat 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.. . .How then? Should the Irish have been quite rooted out? That were too bloody a course: and yet their... | |
 | Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Peter Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Fiona Somerset Fry - 1991 - 388 pages
...of 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.' The armies of both sides had been feeding off the land, slaughtering the livestock and despoiling the... | |
 | John Ranelagh - 1994 - 340 pages
...carrions, happy were they if they could find them, yea, and one after another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of...graves. And if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, they flocked there as if to a feast. Following the Desmond rebellion, in 1584 over 500,000... | |
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... anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat 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... 
