The Alaskans also have a game somewhat like the Mora of the Egyptians and the Italians, only it is the value of the sticks or the stripes painted on them that must be guessed.
II, page 415), "that a game so common as Mora among the lower order of Italians should be found to have existed in Egypt from the earliest period of which their paintings remain, even in the reign of the First Osirtasen.
De laMora glanced round with indignant eyes to the Choctaw who had made the cast, now looking for approval from this gentleman who sang like a woman and fought like a fiend.
I had seen de la Mora on many a field, but never did he look stronger or nobler than on that night.
Instinctively I paused to watch, and as instinctively understood that though pressed to his best, de la Mora desired to be left alone.
I bade my man deliver this to Madame de laMora on the morrow, charging him minutely and repeatedly to see it safe in her own hands.
Under my questions Jacques turned red and pale, then he blundered out: "The Chevalier de la Mora said he would bring the answer to you himself--at the shore.
De la Mora glanced at this silent tribute to the Spaniard's prowess; his face lighted up with a soldier's joy.
As to what de la Mora contemplated I could not venture the wildest guess; certainly no violence in the presence of this other lady who looked so cool while yet so pale.
Madame Agnes de la Mora sat placidly, her work basket by her side, busied about some lace she was mending.
De la Mora rallied me upon my ungallant conduct, in denying to the ladies the sight of so famous a soldier.
By this time Boisbriant and Jacques had come up, and Bienville commanded: "Major, do you accompany the Chevalier de la Mora to his quarters.
Upon the long march to Biloxi, de la Mora was the life of the command, and drew to our camp fire every straggler who could make a fair excuse to come.
The verses in question are: Corta las aguas con los blancos brazos La ninfa, que con otras ninfas mora Debajo de las aguas cristalinas En aposentos de esmeraldas finas.
Rock Hind or Cabra Moraof the West Indies, Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck).
A quick, unconscious twitching of the fingers accompanied her thoughts, as if this weird woman was playing a game of morawith the evil genius that waited on her.
Her grandsire Exili had the same nervous twitching of his fingers, and the vulgar accused him of playing at mora with the Devil, who ever accompanied him, they believed.
On the end of the bench was the monosyllabic Scot, who ceased the exquisite painting of mora buttresses and jungle shadows only for the equal fascination of searching bats for parasites.
At the same time he sent back Diego de Mora to Truxillo, to take the command in that city.
The Mexican authorities, through Alcorta, Secretary of War and of the Navy, named two brigadier generals of the Mexican army, Mora y Villamil and Benito Quijano, to act as commissioners.
The deputation accompanying the flag consisted of Señores Basadre, Mora y Villamil and Aranjos, who had been sent by Pacheco, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
At Beni-Mora the women go veiled," he said harshly.
Stokes Company Publishers Copyright, 1905 Two years ago I was travelling by diligence in the Sahara Desert on the great caravan route, which starts from Beni-Mora and ends, they say, at Tombouctou.
Couldn't find De Moraat first--then had to work slowly up to the subject," Nevill panted.
I don't think De Mora can have got home yet from the palace.
At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immensemora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.
I thought first of the mora tree, where she had hidden herself from me, and thither I directed my steps.
Mora tries hard to be unconventional, without going into the bizarre, and succeeds very well.
