 | James Franck Bright - 1877 - 462 pages
...day's journey, and thou shouldest never find a man sitting in a town, or the land tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh and cheese and butter ; for there...the land. Wretched men died of hunger ; some went seeking alms who at one while were rich men ; some fled out of the land. Never yet had more wretchedness... | |
 | Emily Cooper - 1877 - 570 pages
...and numbers of the inhabitants perished in the flames. ' Then,' says the Saxon Chronicle, ' was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land ; wretched men starved with hunger ; some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich, some fled the country ; never... | |
 | Emily Cooper - 1877 - 566 pages
...and numbers of the inhabitants perished in the flames. ' Then,' says the Saxon Chronicle, ' was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land; wretched men starved with hunger; some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich, some fled the country; never was... | |
 | Ella S. Armitage - 1877 - 316 pages
...ever shouldst thou find a man seated in a town, nor its lands tilled. ' Then was corn dear, and meat, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land ; wretched men starved with hunger ; some lived on alms who had been erewhile rich ; some fled the country; never... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1878 - 558 pages
...day's journey and thou shouldest never find a man sitting in a town, or the land tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter ; for there...the land. Wretched men died of hunger ; some went seeking alms who at one time were rich men ; some fled out of the land. Never yet had more wretchedness... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1878 - 412 pages
...journey or ever thou shouldest see a man settled in a town, or its lands tilled. . . . " Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger. Some lived on alms who had been once rich. Some fled the country. Never was there... | |
 | M. J. Guest - 1879 - 700 pages
...lasted the nineteen years that Stephen was king, and ever grew worse and worse. . . . Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land ; wretched men starved with hunger ; some lived on alms who had erewhile been rich ; some fled the country; never... | |
 | 1879 - 214 pages
...tortured them with pains unspeakable. Many thousands they exhausted with hunger. Then was corn dear, and cheese and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger; some lived on alms who before were rich : some fled the country. Never was more... | |
 | James Franck Bright - 1880 - 668 pages
...day's journey, and thou shouldest never find a man sitting in a town, or the land tilled. Then was corn dear, and flesh and cheese and butter ; for there...the land. Wretched men died of hunger ; some went seeking alma who at one while were rich men ; some fled out of the land. Never yet had more wretchedness... | |
 | John Parkin - 1880 - 540 pages
...and desolating famine, that continued for 12 years. "Then," says the AngloSaxon Chronicle, " was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land ; wretched men starved with hunger : some lived on alms, who had been erewhile rich, and some fled the country." A... | |
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Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger. Some lived on alms, who had been erewhile rich. Some fled the country. Never was there more misery, and never acted heathens worse... 
