 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.  An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics - Page 116by William Parnell - 1808 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 204 pages
...for a share of them. And no spectacle was more common in the ditches of towns, and especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these...people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by e"aHEg_ nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up "aHove ground. These and very many like lamentable... | |
 | Michael Hogan - English poetry - 1880 - 468 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...eating 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.... | |
 | William Gleeson - Anti-Catholicism - 1880 - 596 pages
...description, when he says: " No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns and especially in 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... | |
 | PROFESSOR W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D. - 1883 - 554 pages
...received without the other's head.' The country was steadily subdued by starvation. ' No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially...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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 344 pages
...end. " No spectacle," wrote Mountjoy's English secretary, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...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
...to the last extremity of hunger. " No spectacle," he says, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 1108 pages
...end. " No spectacle," wrote Mountjoy's English secretary, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 1134 pages
...end. " No spectacle," wrote Mountjoy's English secretary, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...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... | |
 | Catholic universities and colleges - 1900 - 676 pages
...starved in Tyrone." Says Moryson, his secretary: " No spectacle was more frequent in 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,... | |
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