Realities of Irish Life

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Longmans, Green, 1869 - 411 páginas
 

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Página 74 - there ends the matter. 1 never will promise that." ' There was a pause, and a dead silence. I stood naked and bareheaded before them. They stood opposite to me, with their sticks clenched in their hands, ready to strike. I looked at them, and they at me. They hesitated ; no one would strike me first. I saw that they wavered, and instinctively, in a moment I felt that I had won. This sudden revulsion of feeling — though I was still externally motionless — sent the blood throbbing to my temples...
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Página 80 - Molly Maguires' were generally stout active young men, dressed up in women's clothes, with faces blackened or otherwise disguised ; sometimes they wore crape over their countenances, sometimes they smeared themselves in the most fantastic manner with burnt cork about their eyes, mouths, and cheeks. In this state they used suddenly to surprise the unfortunate grippers, keepers, or process-servers, and either duck them in bog-holes, or beat them in the most unmerciful manner, so that the ' Molly Maguires...
Página 335 - I do believe, I will believe That Jesus died for me; That on th' cross He shed His blood, From sin to set me free.
Página 104 - Dark whisperings and rumours of famine in its most appalling form began to reach us, but still we could scarcely believe that men, women, and children were actually dying of starvation in thousands. Yet so it was. They died in their mountain glens, they died along the sea-coast, they died on the roads, and they died in the fields ; they wandered into the towns, and died in the streets ; they closed their cabin doors, and lay down upon their beds, and died of actual starvation in their houses.
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