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" And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. "
The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir - Page 214
by Charles Owen O'Conor O'Conor Don, John O'Donovan - 1891 - 395 pages
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History of the rebellion in Ireland in ... 1798. With an appendix

James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
..." No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than...of these poor people " dead, with their mouths all coloured green by , "eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend up above ground. " Many...
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History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c: Containing an ...

James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
..." NVspectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than...of these poor people " dead, with their mouths all coloured green by " eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend ifp above ground. " Many...
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History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c: Containing an ...

James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
..." No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, wilh their mouths all coloured green by " eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend up...
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An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics

William Parnell - Catholic emancipation - 1808 - 218 pages
...admirers of the crown of England." " No spectacle, (says Morrison,) was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." The very commanders,...
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 2

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 590 pages
...out one another's throat for a share of them. And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditchea of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they rould rend up above ground." B. III. ci...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...outone anothers throats for a share of them ; and no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns and especially in wasted countries, than to...multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks and all tilings they could rend up above ground." Again Moryson...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh: For a Period of 1373 Years ...

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...ontone anothers throats for a share of them , and no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns .and especially in wasted countries, than to...see multitudes of these poor people dead with their months all coloured green by eating nettles, docks and all tilings .they could rend up above ground."...
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Vindiciae Hibernicae, Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...apprehended the old women, who were executed for the fact. No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all tilings they could rend up above ground."*" " The...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 157

Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...at last." We read, under the hand of Fynes Moryson, an English Protestant historian: " No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people, the Irish, dead with their mouths...
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Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of ...

John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 pages
...humanity. " No spectacle," says Morrison, in his History of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." Many to appease...
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