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" ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 51
1831
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 1

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...happy were 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,...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most...
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland: From the ...

John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...happy were 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,...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most...
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An historical and critical review of the civil wars in Ireland, from the ...

John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...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...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most...
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Some traditionall memorialls on the reign of Queene Elizabeth [by Francis ...

Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...under the 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...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 therewithall, that in...
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annals of ireland

the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...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 a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost...
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Vindicię Hibernicę: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...they were among the worst of the human species,* other soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost k-ft, and...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh: For a Period of 1373 Years ...

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...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...shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...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 lonj therewithal,...
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Considerations on the Present State of Ireland: And on the Best Means of ...

Irishman - Ireland - 1822 - 48 pages
...insomuch as the carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves, and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue there withalf." Such is the description of an eye-witness, and...
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A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...ghosts crying out of their graves : they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them 'y yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most...
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