| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 672 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...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground.' In the single county of Tyrone 3,000 persons in a few months were starved. On one occasion... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 734 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...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground.' In the single county of Tyrone 3,000 persons in a few months were starved. On one occasion... | |
| Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...countries, then to see multitudes of these pooer people dead, with their mouths all coloured greene by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. These arid very many like lamentable effects followed their rebellion." If O'Neill could not continue... | |
| John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 218 pages
...the ditches of towns, and especially in the 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 been... | |
| John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 220 pages
...the ditches of towns, and especially in the 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 been... | |
| Michael Hogan - English poetry - 1880 - 462 pages
...frequent in the'ditches of towns, and especially of wasted countries than to see multitudes of the poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above the ground, &c.'' A new mode of warfare planned by artful Cecil and carried out by Lord Mountjoy. They... | |
| William Gleeson - Anti-Catholicism - 1880 - 596 pages
...the 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 the ground." A little before in the same account he had stated that the living were driven to eat ihe... | |
| PROFESSOR W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D. - 1883 - 554 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...by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could find above ground.' In the single county of Tyrone 3000 persons in a few months were starved. On one... | |
| Robert Hassencamp - Ireland - 1888 - 372 pages
...his account,1 "and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people lying dead, with their mouths all coloured .green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It was not mere exaggeration, therefore, when the commander-in-chief, in one of his... | |
| Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1890 - 458 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." Tyrone made his submission to Queen Elizabeth at a time when it was not yet known in Ireland that she... | |
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