 | Charles Lucas - Ireland - 1756 - 1078 pages
...and in the ditches of other towns, efpecially in wafted countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe people dead, with their mouths all coloured green,...and all things they could rend up, above ground—" In a following chapter, p. 282, he adds " The Lord Deputy and council in a letter to the Queen, have... | |
 | John Curry - Ireland - 1793 - 438 pages
...frequent in the ditches of towns, and efpecially in wafted countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." The lord deputy and council,' in a letter to the lords in England concerning their receiving the fubmiffions... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1801 - 428 pages
..." countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe poor " people dead, with their mouths all coloured c' green by eating nettles, docks, and all things " they could rend up above ground." Many to apptafe the rage of hunger devoured human carcafes, of which a horrid inftance was witneffed... | |
 | James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...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...and all things they could " rend up above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases, of which a horrid instance was witnessed... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
...towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, wilh their mouths all coloured green by " eating nettles,...and all things they could " rend up above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases, of which a horrid instance was witnessed... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...wasted countries, than t« see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." The lord deputy and council,3 in a letter to the lords in England concerning their receiving the submissions... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...wasted countries, than to see mul. titudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all caloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." B. III. ci The effects of this artificial famine were severely felt even in the very city of Dublin,... | |
 | John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 pages
...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...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcasses, of which a horrid instance was witnessed... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...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...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. These, and very many like lamentable effects, followed their rebellion, and no doubt the rebels had... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...wasted countries, than to ' see multitudes of these poor people dead, with ' their mouths. all colored green by eating nettles ' docks, and all things they could rend up above ' ground.' Such were the means by which the final subjugation of Ireland was produced. Such were the preparations... | |
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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. 
