The mere names of paintings often gladden me for a whole day--those names which bring before the mind a bit of seashore, a riverside, a glimpse of moorland or of woods.
But for the ships that lay here and there, frozen in like ourselves, it might have been mistaken for some snow-clad moorland in the dead of winter.
When at last I was able to follow my kind young protector away over the wild moorland after his fleecy flock, O!
I know Skye so well, and there was not a glen, a hill, a bleak moorland or one mile of surf-tormented beach, on which I could not cause to reappear the heroes and heroines of a bygone age.
The peaty moorland soil on which the castle stood would hardly be the best thing in the world for rose-trees, I imagined, and it seemed not too much to hope that some other kind of earth might be artificially mingled with it.
Soon, however, our path across the moors took us out of human habitations, and among the moorland solitudes the Brontë sisters so fondly loved.
Harper and Brothers have published a new English novel by the author of Mary Barton, entitled The Moorland Cottage, a pleasing domestic story of exquisite beauty.
We saw a long bleak moorland slope before us, and then the gray stone houses of Padiham, over which a black cloud hung; different from the blue wood or turf smoke about Sawley.
The heat haze shimmered on the distant horizon like an insect's wing, but was tempered on the moorland height by the capricious wind, and Ishmael kept doggedly on.
Through patches of moorland where the bracken clung about him or the furze pricked his legs, as he was subconsciously aware without really noticing it.
It was a weekday evening when the preacher came to the gaunt little chapel which affronted the skies at the highest curve of the moorland road.
Like finger-posts dim seen, on a moorland journey, through the gathering fogs, Sunday after Sunday passed.
The house where the terrible thing took place was not far from a little moorland village.
It was because she seemed such a wonderful woman in her nice moorland cottage way that at last she was told about the Magic.
Dickon's moorland boots were thick and clumsy and though he tried to walk quietly they made a clumping sound as he walked through the long corridors.
The low wall was one of the prettiest things in Yorkshire because he had tucked moorland foxglove and ferns and rock-cress and hedgerow flowers into every crevice until only here and there glimpses of the stones were to be seen.
The stories she had been told by her Ayah when she lived in India had been quite unlike those Martha had to tell about the moorland cottage which held fourteen people who lived in four little rooms and never had quite enough to eat.
The spot itself is ugly enough; but you can go not thither without breathing the sweetest, freshest air, and encountering that delightful sense of romance which moorland scenery always produces.
There in that pleasant dining-room, with etchings on the walls, and a picture of an old lady in a bib above the mantelpiece, I could see nothing to connect them with the moorland desperadoes.
Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet.
The house before me was the ordinary moorland farm, with a more pretentious whitewashed wing added.
What chance had I in this moorland house with three desperadoes and their armed servants?
The house stood almost on the summit of a swell of moorland which crowned a sort of plateau, and there was no higher point nearer than the big hills six miles off.
The man might be the bald archaeologist of that horrible moorland farm, or he might not.
It was the movement I remembered when I had stood before him in the moorland farm, with the pistols of his servants behind me.
About six in the evening I came out of the moorland to a white ribbon of road which wound up the narrow vale of a lowland stream.
But the old man in the moorland house solemnized him.
We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great widemoorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.
By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.
A brown-faced woman was standing by the door, and greeted me with the kindly shyness of moorland places.
Together they toiled up the hill to the high stretch of moorland from which a view of the entrance to the Firth could be obtained.
The pale February sunlight was streaming across snow-covered moorland that stretched away on either side of the line, when the Highland Express drew up at the first stopping place the following morning.
Several little steep paths meandered through the wood, crossing and recrossing tiny leaping streams, and came out on a great tract of tumbled moorland above, with huge broad-backed mountains couched about it.
He was a keen fisherman, and his angling in the moorland streams produced a plentiful supply of fish--in fact, more than his family could consume.
An enormous stretch of moorlandspreads itself out towards the west.
Just under the moorland heights surrounding Malham Tarn is the other village of Malham.
Everything is peaceful and remote; even the sound of the river is lost in the wind that blows freely upon us from the greatmoorland wastes stretching away to the western horizon.
A picture of the bridge has, fortunately, been preserved in Canon Atkinson's 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish.
Although there are probably few who care for rough moorland roads at night, the Buttertubs Pass in daylight is still a memorable place.
None but the simplest of sounds, therefore, are borne on the keen winds that come from the moorland heights, and the purity of the air whispers in the ear the pleasing message of a land where chimneys have never been.
But as he left the road and took the moorland path along the cliff, the battle suddenly came to an end.
Far away across the moorland the autumn sun had shot its last rays over the level plain and sea, and had sunk quietly to rest.
Four or five miles out of Barnard Castle we passed through Bowes, a typical Yorkshire moorland town stretching some distance along the highroad.
It is situated in a verdant valley, but the moorland hills, bleak and barren, nearly surround it.
The moorland road to Melrose is finely engineered, following the hills in long sweeping lines with few steep grades or sharp curves.
At Richmond we leave the lowlands and strike directly across the rough moorlandroad to Leyburn in Wensleydale.
What a contrast its wayside trees and flowers and pleasant farm cottages presented to the stony moorland road we pursued northward from Buxton!
The moorland road carries us onward to Brough, a shabby, desolate town deep in the hills, with scarcely a touch of color to lighten its gray monotone.
We catch continual vistas of the Wharfe, no longer a brawling moorland stream, but sleeping in broad, silvery reaches in the midst of the luxuriant meadows.
The day is still young and an uninterrupted run over the winding moorland road brings us to Ripon before noon.
So Wordsworth describes the narrow green valleys running between the long ridges of moorland hills and opening into the wide fertile plain in the center of which stands the city of York.
But they have told us that Lulworth and its cove are worth seeing and we are soon away over the moorland road.
My horse should ride through their ranks sae rude, As he would through the moorland fern, And ne'er let the gentle Norman bluid Grow cauld for the Highland kerne.
There were wooded banks and hollows just round it; but farther afield the chill, bare moorland stretched away toward the sea, broken here and there by sullen sedgy tarns.
They left the house by the door, which they left ajar, and immediately found themselves again on the moorland road that had brought them from Haillar.
Precipices similar to those that had overlooked the desert here formed the boundary of a vast moorland plain, whose dimensions could not be measured by the eye.
Now this strip ofmoorland ran up at one end to a curiously shaped crag, known as Merlin's Crag, because, so the country folk said, that famous Enchanter had once taken up his abode there.
One day his master sent him out to cast peats on a piece ofmoorland that lay on a certain part of the farm.
Growing heather and fern filled the interstices, and the spot resembled a large natural kistvaen of the sort not seldom discovered in the old Moorland barrows, where Stone men laid the dust of their heroic dead.
