Usnach
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It deals with the love of Deirdre for Naris and is founded on a Gaelic Version of the Tragical Tale of the Sons of Usnach.
From A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Company, February, 1908 by Methuen and Co. Ltd.
These three stories are called: The Tragedy of the Children of Lir; The Tragedy of the Children of Tuireann; and Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
Woe is me! by fraud and wrong, Traitors false and tyrants strong, Fell Clan Usnach, bought and sold, For Barach's feast and Conor's gold!
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Deirdre’s beauty “that brought the Sons of Usnach to their death” comes into many of the country songs.
From The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish by Gregory, Lady
But Conchubar asked him to put blindness for a while on the sons of Usnach, or the whole army would be destroyed with their blows.
From Gods and Fighting Men by Gregory, Lady
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