moory

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And Zarathustra went thoughtfully on, further and lower down, through forests and past moory bottoms; as it happeneth, however, to every one who meditateth upon hard matters, he trod thereby unawares upon a man.

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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 Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

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

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 Borrow, George Henry

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 The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert