 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 388 Seiten
...happy were they could they 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, of shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1809 - 588 Seiten
...death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...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... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 732 Seiten
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...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... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 Seiten
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses thev 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 498 Seiten
...title of a protecteress. Though the Dutch were no lesse hers by interest did eat the dead carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, here they flocked, as to a feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Stuart - 1819 - 692 Seiten
...Ibid, p. 200, of death — they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eate tlie deade carrions — happy where they could find them ; yea,...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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 Seiten
...From their accounts, it would appear that they were among the worst of the human species,* other soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...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... | |
 | 1816 - 680 Seiten
...carrions;—happy were they that 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-cressss or shamrocks, there they nocked as to a feast for a time, yet not being able to continue... | |
 | James Stuart - 1819 - 692 Seiten
...could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not lo scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrock'!, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue... | |
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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 anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where... 
