moory

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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

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 Carlyle, Thomas

Adj. marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy†, poachy†, quaggy†, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal†; moorish, moory; fenny.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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 O'Rourke, John

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

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry