moory

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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 Morley, Henry

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

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

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 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

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 Richardson, David Lester