Moory

After I had walked about half a mile the pass widened considerably and a little way further on debauched on some wild moory ground. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The scene in my immediate neighbourhood was very desolate; moory hillocks were all about me of a wretched russet colour; on my left, on the very crest of the hill up which I had so long been toiling, stood a black pyramid of turf, a pole on the top of it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The land was moory and rocky, with nothing grand about it, and the miller described it well when he said it was tir gwael — mean land. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The way lay over dreary, moory hills; at last it began to descend, and ❋ Unknown (2004)

So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again — and now I saw that it was water. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We were now on an extensive moory elevation, having the brook which forms the Rhyadr a little way on our left. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Having reached the top of the hill I entered upon a wild moory region. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I passed by a moor on my left, then a moory hillock on my right; the way was broken and stony; all traces of the good roads of Wales had disappeared; the habitations which I saw by the way were miserable hovels into and out of which large sows were stalking, attended by their farrows. ❋ Unknown (2004)

After wandering for some miles towards the south over a bleak moory country I came to a place called Fair Rhos, a miserable village, consisting of a few half-ruined cottages, situated on the top of a hill. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They also found ten miles within the snowy mountains a plain champion country, with earth and grass, such as our moory and waste grounds of England are. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happeneth, however, to every one who meditateth upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man. ❋ Unknown (2001)

And this I know by experience, that some one man by conversion of his moory grounds into hopyards, whereof before he had no commodity, doth raise yearly by so little as twelve acres in compass two hundred marks -- all charges borne towards the maintenance of his family. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

Followed by a wondering crowd of natives eager to help him up and down the rocks, Davis made his way inland to find an inviting country, "with earth and grass such as our moory and waste grounds of England are"; he found, too, mosses and wild flowers in the sheltered places. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

These stretch out league after league, away from their parent head, and present on their tops vast plateaux of green and moory pasture-land; while their sides are either abrupt precipices of basaltic columns, or else are clothed with primeval forests, which have sprung up and still flourish on the rich materials of their decomposing slopes. ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr. Pusey says, "Every one who is practically acquainted with moory land, knows that such land may be easily over-drained, so that the soil becomes dusty or _husky_, as it is called -- that is, like a dry sponge -- the white crops flag, and the turnip leaves turn yellow in a long drought." ❋ Henry Flagg French (N/A)

Of late years also we have found and taken up a great trade in planting of hops, whereof our moory hitherto and unprofitable grounds do yield such plenty and increase that there are few farmers or occupiers in the country which have not gardens and hops growing of their own, and those far better than do come from Flanders unto us. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

Scott is building there, by the pleasant banks of the Tweed; he has bought and is buying land there; fast as the new gold comes in for a new Waverley Novel, or even faster, it changes itself into moory acres, into stone, and hewn or planted wood. ❋ Unknown (1909)

[Dylan] is [such a] moory ❋ Xx_ghaul_xx (2018)

"Actually, I'm one [sixteenth] [moori]" said said Beth who thought 'frick' was a [swear word] and who was also turning 22 next week. ❋ Arundidoo (2014)

[Oh my], Moorie [cow] is so [perfect]. ❋ Shiggsy (2019)