 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1890 - 462 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...nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.3' on the 5th of April came the public and official information of Elizabeth's death and the... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 344 pages
...the ditches of the 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 thmgs they could rend up above ground." In one place a band of women enticed little children to come... | |
 | Charles Owen O'Conor O'Conor Don, John O'Donovan - Connacht (Ireland) - 1891 - 476 pages
...especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. " Mountjoy in a letter to the council in England says: "From O'Kane's country, northward of Tyrone,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 1108 pages
...the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...and all things they could rend up above ground." In one place a band of women enticed little children to come among them, and murdered them for food. At... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 344 pages
...towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with thoir mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks,...and all things they could rend up above ground." In one place a band of women enticed little children to come among them, and murdered them for food. At... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1892 - 518 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 1 Bernard's Life of Usher afterwards appointed... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 1134 pages
...the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...and all things they could rend up above ground." In one place a band of women enticed little children to come among them, and murdered them for food. At... | |
 | Catholic universities and colleges - 1900 - 676 pages
...the ditches of towns 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." It is no wonder, then, that O'Neil could do little against the combined forces of Docura and Mountjoy,... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1897 - 586 pages
...— "And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." O'Neill was not able to make any headway against Mountjoy and Docwra, both of whom continued to plant... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Anglo-Saxon race - 1897 - 386 pages
...the computed 30,000 men, women, and children, who died of famine, and who were found in the ditches " with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground," yea, and who in their extremity "did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
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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. 
