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12
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
20
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
38
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
44
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
48
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
52
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
62
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
64
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
76
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
78
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
All
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
apples
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Armagh
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
AUTHOR
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From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
begin
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
bein
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
beset
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
betweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
black
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
blesses
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
bog
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Brehon
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
bunch
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
ByprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
Caplait
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
casting
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
caution
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
chief
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
circumvint
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
clane
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
convertin
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
court
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Cromm
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Cruach
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
CURTIS
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From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
daughters
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
day
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
days
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
debtor
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
defying
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
delivers
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
describing
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
desire
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
divil-sint
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
down
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
driving
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Druid
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Druids
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
Dubthach
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
DUNHAM
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From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
ETC
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Ethne
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
eye
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Facing
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
FairnounUS /fair/
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Far
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Fedelm
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Finola
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Finola's
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
flaming
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Frontispiece
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
gintleman
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
Glanngalt
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
GOBLIN
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From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
GOLDEN
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From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
goodnounUS /good/
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
graft
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Grotto
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
guest
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
handstone
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
hang
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
haythin
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
haythins
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
hears
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
hild
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
home
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
household
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
idol
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
idol's
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
idols
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
ifconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
Image
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
important
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Ireland
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
jobs
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Keth
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
King
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
King's
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Laeghaire
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Law
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Lochru
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
lookin
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
loose
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
Lucat-Moel
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Lugair
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Mac
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
magic
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
magicians
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
makin
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Man
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Maragh
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
marries
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
message
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
mighty
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
mimbers
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
murderous
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
na
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
namenounUS /name/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
namely
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
nextnounUS /next/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
Now
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
OFprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
ontoprepositionUS /ˈɑːntuː/
moving to a position on a surface
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
openverbUS /ˈoʊ.pən/
To move from a closed position.
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
other
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
owin
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
own
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
page
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Patrick
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Patrick's
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
place
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
poems
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
price
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
priests
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
recites
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Royal
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Ruddy
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
runs
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
samenounUS /same/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
sees
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Shanachy
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
shattered
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
shatters
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Shoulder
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
slept
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
smaller
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
snakes
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
spells
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Strong
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
surenounUS /sure/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
Tara
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading _By_ CURTIS DUNHAM AUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN GOBLIN,” ETC.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
There
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
thim
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
three
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
torches
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
turn
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From this reading Now Patrick, bein’ a gintleman and the guest of King Laeghaire at Tara, could not turn himself loose on mimbers of the King’s own household.
Twas
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
twelve
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
twin
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
two
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
up
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From this reading All the same, if he was to clane up Ireland, Druids, snakes an’ all, ’twas important to begin by convertin’ the King.
urgent
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
virtues
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
wan
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
water
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
way
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
wereauxiliary verbUS /wɜːr/
the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
whin
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
White
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
whopronounUS /huː/
which person or people
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
wise
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From this reading There was the chief royal wizard, Lochru by name, an’ two other divil-sint Druid priests, namely Caplait an’ Lucat-Moel, who hild the graft of makin’ wise haythins of Ethne the Fair an’ Fedelm the Ruddy, the King’s two daughters an’ the twin apples of his eye; an’ between the three of thim, with the King lookin’ their way wan day an’ Patrick’s way the next, the spells of wind an’ water an’ black magic the good Patrick had to circumvint were sure a caution.
WithprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
wizard
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
worry
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
Wurra-Wurra
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From this reading Grotto and Image of Wurra-Wurra _Frontispiece_ _Facing page_ Patrick casting down Cromm Cruach and the twelve smaller idols 12 Keth, Patrick’s Strong Man, describing to Finola the virtues of his handstone 20 Keth Mac Maragh in the bog, beset by the wizard spells of Lochru 38 Keth recites the Brehon Law to Dubthach Mac na Lugair and his debtor 44 Dubthach, the Royal Shanachy, driving home the price of his poems 48 Far down Glanngalt Keth sees the torches flaming about the Grotto of Wurra-Wurra 52 With his mighty handstone, defying Lochru, Keth shatters the idol Wurra-Wurra 62 Finola runs to Keth and delivers an urgent message from Patrick 64 Keth, in the shattered idol’s place, hears Finola’s great worry 76 Patrick marries and blesses Keth and Finola of the White Shoulder 78 ’Twas in the days whin the good Patrick of Armagh slept with wan eye open, owin’ to the murderous desire of a bunch of haythin magicians to hang onto their jobs at the court of King Laeghaire.
