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 Henry Morley
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
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow
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
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
