moory
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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
Friable—Where the soil is loose and open, as is generally the case in sandy, gravelly, and moory lands.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
The mountain bog of the south of Ireland—the moory bog—varies in depth from nine inches to three feet, below which there is a clayey or sandy subsoil.
From The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by John O'Rourke
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
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.
From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Henry Morley
