moor
noun
a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
moory
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a word derived from
moor.
Example Sentences
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His uniform is of the Goltz Regiment, Infantry: Goltz Regiment, which lies at Ruppin,—at and about, in that moory Country to the Northeast, some thirty or forty miles from Berlin;—whither his destination now is.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
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 George Henry Borrow
The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale.
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
Slowly he repeated— As when a Gryphon through the wilderness With winged step, o'er hill and moory dale Pursues the Arimaspian.
From The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
