 | George Bagshawe Harrison - Drama - 1999 - 436 pages
...and especially in the wasted counties no spectacle is more frequent than to see multitudes of poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground. 9/A March. FEARS AT COURT. From Court the news is the Queen much lamenteth the late death... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Aggressiveness in literature - 2002 - 440 pages
...Countries, then to see multitudes of these poore people dead with their mouthes all coloured greene by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.'" 7 The feverish energies seem a lot more like the Yahoos eating roots and tearing their food with their... | |
 | Leslie Clarkson, Margaret Crawford - History - 2001 - 338 pages
...wasted Countries, then to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured greene by eating nettles, 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... | |
 | Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart - Ireland - 2001 - 232 pages
...after the Desmond Rebellion when 'multitudes lay dead in the ditches of towns and other waste places, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground'. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands,... | |
 | Michael O'Clery - History - 2003 - 398 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." Mountjoy, in a letter to the lords of the council in England, says, "from O'Kane's country northward... | |
 | Frank Welsh - History - 2003 - 546 pages
...the body of their dead mother: 'no spectacle was more frequent 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 above ground'. It could be claimed that peace in the new kingdom of Ireland had been restored, but... | |
 | 1932 - 418 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. 
