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... fire . The king saw the fire afar off , and asked one of the Pagan priests who surrounded him what it was . The priest replied , If that fire which we see be not extinguished to - night , it will never be extinguished , but will overlap ...
... fire . The king saw the fire afar off , and asked one of the Pagan priests who surrounded him what it was . The priest replied , If that fire which we see be not extinguished to - night , it will never be extinguished , but will overlap ...
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... fire , and the flames burning and the multitudes hew- ing down underwood , leaving the tall trees standing . For the ranks are thinned , and only a few great heroes are left to maintain the fight . The foreigners are now defeated , but ...
... fire , and the flames burning and the multitudes hew- ing down underwood , leaving the tall trees standing . For the ranks are thinned , and only a few great heroes are left to maintain the fight . The foreigners are now defeated , but ...
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... valiant resistance , captured . Flushed by victory , the invaders next overran Ossory , putting the surrounding country to fire and sword , and finally entrenching them- 1170 ] STRONGBOW 29 selves at Ferns . The Ard 28 [ 1169 IRELAND.
... valiant resistance , captured . Flushed by victory , the invaders next overran Ossory , putting the surrounding country to fire and sword , and finally entrenching them- 1170 ] STRONGBOW 29 selves at Ferns . The Ard 28 [ 1169 IRELAND.
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... fire , were forced to surrender . Kildare was hastening from Con- naught with a force of about 7000 men to the relief of Maynooth , when the news of its fall reached him . But he was resolved to give battle to Skeffington . A fierce ...
... fire , were forced to surrender . Kildare was hastening from Con- naught with a force of about 7000 men to the relief of Maynooth , when the news of its fall reached him . But he was resolved to give battle to Skeffington . A fierce ...
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... fire , and , if any at- tempted to escape , they were shot or stabbed ; how soldiers were seen ' to take up infants on the points of their spears , and to whirl them about in their agony ; ' how women were found ' hanging on trees with ...
... fire , and , if any at- tempted to escape , they were shot or stabbed ; how soldiers were seen ' to take up infants on the points of their spears , and to whirl them about in their agony ; ' how women were found ' hanging on trees with ...
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Page 256 - Though in her tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still there is on her lips a spirit of life, and on her cheek a glow of beauty : Thou art not conquered : beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 220 - I am now to address a free people ! Ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Page 256 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 88 - My ancestors were kings of Ulster ; and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine. O'Donnell shall never come into his country, nor Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum or Lecale. They are now mine. With this sword I won them — with this sword I will keep them.
Page 200 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 201 - It is true, indeed, that within the memory of man, the Parliaments of England have sometimes assumed the power of binding this kingdom by laws enacted there...
Page 241 - Mr. Sheriff, take the body of Tone into custody; take the provost-marshal and Major Sandys into custody, and show the order of the court to General Craig.
Page 161 - Even after the barricade had been passed, there was a terrible half-hour of suspense. It was ten o'clock before the ships arrived at the quay. The whole population was there to welcome them. A screen made of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of unloading began. First were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal. Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon,...
Page 3 - Victorious, bearing innumerable epistles. And he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of it which contained the words,
Page 138 - Being thus entered, we refused them quarter ; having, the day before, summoned the town. I believe we put to the sword the whole number of the defendants. I do not think thirty of the whole number escaped with their lives.