I remember how once, descending from Tryfan after a wet and dismal day, and returning across the low grassy moorlandsto Capel Curig, I witnessed that strange form of mountain mirage recorded by Wordsworth in “The Excursion.
Moorlands he saw By cornfields vanquished; marked the all-beauteous siege Of pasture yearly threatening loftier crags Loud with the bleat of lambs.
In the meantime, Angelot was better off among his woods and moorlands than Hélène in her locked room, all the old labyrinths and secret ways discovered and stopped.
His heart was as light as the air of that glorious morning, so keen, clear, and still on the high moorlands as he crossed them.
Of late years the numbers of the Hen-Harrier have been greatly thinned by game-preservers, and it only nests now on a few of our largest and wildestmoorlands and wastes.
A bird I always looked for eagerly in the days of my youth, on our Staffordshire moorlandswas the Yellow Wagtail with its lovely tints.
Anybody accustomed to wander among themoorlands of the country will remember how common it is to hear the people practising sacred music in their lonely cottages.
Fill the lake with wild-fowl; Fill the marsh with snipe; While on drearymoorlands Lonely curlew pipe.
My moorlandslooked dreary; the heather is fading from purple to brown; the Autumn days are coming on fast.
The valley has a solitary look, as if it were very remote from hurry or turmoil, with the green, silent hills rising high towards Haldon's moorlands on one side, and to Dartmoor on the other.
The Teign rises, as do most of the rivers in Devon, on Dartmoor, and starts across the moorlands towards the north.
It is difficult to imagine any moorlands destitute of superstition, and plenty linger on Exmoor.
They both relate to Hawksyard, situate in that part of The Moorlands of Staffordshire known in the middle ages as Highe Frith of Malbanc Forest; south of Buxton and east of the church at Newtown near Longnor.
Illustration: Map of Hawksyard and The Moorlands of Staffordshire.
If there's a drearier or lonelier stretch in England than the moorlands of Leek, I would not care to see it.
At a point where the rough road cut across a fold in the moorlands we saw, half a mile to our right, a herd of cattle being lashed and chivvied away to the remoter crannies among the hills by a throng of sweating hinds and fanners.
From this time until August the hillsides andmoorlands present exquisite phases of green and russet colouring, on which the eye rests with unwearying pleasure.
Grouse are not so abundant on the west coast moorlands as in some other districts.
Of the grasses, the most noticeable is that species of bent-grass which so abounds on all the moorlands and hill sides, mingling with the heather, ferns, and flowers.
The grouse is abundant on all the moorlands of Gairloch, but its numbers in any season are liable to be greatly affected by wet or cold weather at the time of hatching.
It mostly frequents the higher moorlands and the mountain sides, but is sometimes found on quite low ground.
The situation of the rock is certainly romantic: the wild moorlands of bog and heather stretch away on either side, in fact the rock stands on the verge of some of the wildest mountain scenery of Great Britain.
All the wild fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fenlands, In the melancholy marshes.
We went over the moorlands in the keen air, Amroth striding cleanly and lightly over the heather.
These sloping fields ran up into high moorlands and little grey crags, with the trees and thickets growing in the rock fronts.
Fishing and shooting, and walking among the moorlands and hills, combine to render a holiday in either the Orkneys or Shetland Islands a most enjoyable one.
He stopped as he spoke, and looked across the park towards the moorlands that were dimly visible in the light of the moon.
Once he carried Mactier off to the moorlands for a week’s shooting and Mactier was actually conscious that Trevelyan seemed happier with his gun under his arm again than he had been since the day of his mysterious return.
The river, according to Erdeswick, "hath its first spring in themoorlands between Bidulph and Norton, and divideth the shire almost into two equal parts, north and south.
Below the bridge at Middleton the Tees leaves behind it the stern Yorkshire moorlands and scaurs, the hills on either bank withdrawing themselves that it may glitter in the sunbeams over a pebbly bed.
Here the escarpment of the moorlands is not very far away from a fault by which the coal measures are thrown down for so many hundred feet that no attempt has yet been made to sink shafts in the valley of the Trent.
The Curlew begins to leave the coast for more or less inland haunts in March, scattering over most of our swampy moorlands and rough higher grounds to breed.
Dunlins begin to move from the coasts in March and April, and to resort to their breeding places, which are situated on the marshy moorlands and mountain swamps, often at no great distance from the sea, or at least from tidal waters.
St. George was in his arm-chair by the mantel looking over one of his heavy ducking-guns when the Lord of Moorlands entered.
The Lord ofMoorlands had no patience with any of their views.
He rode out to Moorlands yesterday, and I didn't know him, he's so changed.
His ride to Moorlands and back--his muscles unused for months to the exercise--had tired him.
Moorlands without old Alec would hive been a wheel without a hub.
Moorlands was to be sold; for Mr. Grahame had resolved on burying himself and his child in some retired cottage, where his very existence might be forgotten.
I sent a letter, apparently from her, this morning to Moorlands for Ellen, as I am not quite sure whether she will return home this evening or not, and perhaps that contains the intelligence.
Between Galway Bay and the wide estuary of the Shannon spread the moorlands of Clare, bleak under Atlantic gales, with never a tree for miles inward from the sea.
As the traveler rode past the decaying hall, the gloomy woods, and waste blackmoorlands of Sporeen, he read the riddle of Ireland's fate, and asked himself when an OEdipus would arise to solve it.
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