 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
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 456 pages
...which the rebels were thereby brought. . . . And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." O'Neill was not able to make any headway against Mountjoy and Docwra, and with the... | |
 | Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock - Ireland - 1908 - 336 pages
...his rebellion. An eyewitness, Moryson, says, " No spectacle 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.'' The one redeeming feature of the country was the prosperity and growth of the seaport... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1908 - 528 pages
...wrought in the island that a contemporary declared that " Nothing 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 colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things which they could rend up above ground." Vast... | |
 | Louis François Alphonse Paul-Dubois - Ireland - 1908 - 574 pages
...starved. No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns and especially of wasted counties, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green with eating nettles, docks, and all things they could find above the ground." On one occasion, Sir... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1910 - 1208 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 Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Ireland - 1911 - 472 pages
...stating, that "no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of townes, and especially in wasted counties, than 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." 2 This mansion is... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1912 - 358 pages
...actual rebels. And he goes on to say : — " And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with...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... | |
 | Anthony Guggenberger - Europe - 1913 - 490 pages
...their arms to destroy the crops of whole districts. An English eyewitness reports : " No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns and especially...multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all colored green by eating nettles, docks and all things they could rend above jiround." In the single... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Agriculture - 1918 - 556 pages
...coming thither to warm them, were by them surprised, killed and eaten. A common spectacle, he says, to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their...eating nettles, 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... | |
 | George Creel - Ireland - 1919 - 250 pages
...about three thousand starved in Tyrone. And 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 the ground. Followed... | |
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