 | Lionel Curtis - Colonies - 1917 - 788 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 neighbourhood of Newry, famine produced a new and appalling crime. It was discovered... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Agriculture - 1918 - 556 pages
...were by them surprised, killed and eaten. A common spectacle, he says, 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. Coming down a little later, in 1652-3, in the time of that great upholder of liberty Oliver Cromwell,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1918 - 750 pages
...ditches of the towns, and especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor folk dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." Two personal illustrations may serve to render the contrast more vivid. There are few... | |
 | George Creel - Ireland - 1919 - 246 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 the ground. Followed James I in time, and with him came new and ever greater persecutions for the Irish.... | |
 | Éamon De Valera - Ireland - 1920 - 148 pages
...in 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. ' ' IN CROMWELLIAN PERIOD To the massacres of Elizabeth and James there succeeded those... | |
 | Constantia Maxwell - Ireland - 1923 - 408 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...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... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1924 - 352 pages
...frequent in the ditches of towns than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths ah1 coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." 506. O'Neill was not able to make any headway against Mountjoy and Docwra, both of whom continued to... | |
 | Australia - 1955 - 508 pages
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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. 
