Thesaurus / moory
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As a common it afforded a little picking for geese and asses, and in the moory parts of it, a little fuel for the labourers.
RURAL RIDESWILLIAM COBBETT
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
WILD WALESGEORGE BORROW
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory quaggy ground intersected with watercourses.
WILD WALESGEORGE BORROW
The spot, though itself bare and moory, was nearly surrounded by wood, and looked like a clearing in an American forest.
THE CRUISE OF THE BETSEYHUGH MILLER
Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground.
LAVENGROGEORGE BORROW
So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again—and now I saw that it was water.
WILD WALESGEORGE BORROW
Friable—Where the soil is loose and open, as is generally the case in sandy, gravelly, and moory lands.
The house is clean, and the district is moory—just on the outskirts of the great coalfield.
JAMES GEIKIEMARION I. NEWBIGIN
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, VOL. 1GILBERT WHITE
WORDS RELATED TO MOORY
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.