Meanings of distressful country in English

A distressful country, indeed, where the children do not own their own feet.

It was his part, by one striking act of martyrdom, to direct all men's eyes on that distressful country.

She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen; They're hanging men and women there for wearing of the green.

There is a story of an English tourist seeking for information about the distressful country, he being at Tallaght near Dublin.

He had an instinctive feeling that he was about to be called upon for a subscription to the cause of the distressful country's freedom.

In comparison, the roaring of all the cannon of all the revolutions that that distressful country ever had known, were like fire-crackers under a barrel.

Its history in Russia will be an object of research in the future, when more material and more news are available from that " distressful country."

''Tis the most distressful country that ever yet was seen.'

"'Tis the most distressful country that ever yet was seen, Where they punish T. O'GRADY For the wearing of the Green."