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Example sentences for "moory"

Lexicographically close words:
moorings; moorland; moorlands; moors; moorside; moos; moose; moosehide; moosic; moost
  1. We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory quaggy ground intersected with watercourses.

  2. After wandering for some miles towards the south over a bleak moory country I came to a place called Fair Rhos, a miserable village, consisting of a few half-ruined cottages, situated on the top of a hill.

  3. We were now on an extensive moory elevation, having the brook which forms the Rhyadr a little way on our left.

  4. So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again—and now I saw that it was water.

  5. The way lay over dreary, moory hills: at last it began to descend and I saw a valley below me with a narrow river running through it to which wooded hills sloped down; far to the west were blue mountains.

  6. After I had walked about half-a-mile the pass widened considerably, and a little way farther on debouched on some wild, moory ground.

  7. Having reached the top of the hill I entered upon a wild moory region.

  8. The land was moory and rocky, with nothing grand about it, and the miller described it well when he said it was tîr gwael—mean land.

  9. Leaving the bridge, I ascended a gentle acclivity, and presently reached what appeared to be a tract of moory undulating ground.

  10. So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again--and now I saw that it was water.

  11. The way lay over dreary, moory hills; at last it began to descend, and I saw a valley below me with a narrow river running through it, to which wooded hills sloped down; far to the west were blue mountains.

  12. After I had walked about half a mile the pass widened considerably and a little way further on debauched on some wild moory ground.

  13. As a common it afforded a little picking for geese and asses, and in the moory parts of it, a little fuel for the labourers.

  14. As his bark approached he would eagerly note all the features of the island--the central rugged ridge, the low moory shores and narrow strait separating it from the Ross of Mull on the mainland.

  15. Mention has been made of the elevated moory tracts that serve to connect the Cheviots with the loftier Uplands lying to north-west.

  16. But now unbroken peace brooded over its shattered ivy-bound walls, and ploughed fields crept up year by year along the moory slope on which it stood, until at length all became green, and the dark heath disappeared.

  17. Friable--Where the soil is loose and open, as is generally the case in sandy, gravelly, and moory lands.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boggy; marshy; miry; muddy; paludal; swampy