 | Lionel Curtis - Colonies - 1917 - 788 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves." ... In Ulster the war was conducted in a similar spirit. . . . " No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns,...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." .... | |
 | Éamon De Valera - Ireland - 1920 - 148 pages
...reported : "We have seen no one man in all Tyrone of late but dead carcasses merely hunger starved. * * * No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns...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.... | |
 | Laurence Ginnell - Ireland - 1921 - 144 pages
...Sir George Carew, Pacata Hibernia, 189, 584. "No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of the towns and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people, the Irish, dead, with their mouths colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things 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. 
