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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

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

From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

"As when a Gryphon through the wilderness, With winged course, o'er hill and moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian who by stealth Hath from his wakeful custody purloined His guarded gold."

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas

The Lane of Grennoch seemed to that comfortable English drover, Mr. Job Brown, like a bit of Warwickshire let into the moory boggish desolations of Galloway.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard

After I had walked about half-a-mile the pass widened considerably, and a little way farther on debouched on some wild, moory ground. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry