moory
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The spot, though itself bare and moory, was nearly surrounded by wood, and looked like a clearing in an American forest.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
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
It is only the feeders of young stock in wet, moory, sandy, or undrained, heavy soils who really have cause for anxiety and incessant watchfulness.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory quaggy ground intersected with watercourses.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by George Henry Borrow
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
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