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Example sentences for "morays"

Lexicographically close words:
morally; morals; morass; morasses; moratorium; morbi; morbid; morbidity; morbidly; morbidness
  1. The Morays of Abercairny estate (the fair lady's marriage portion) and many another territorial family claim descent from the union of these happy lovers.

  2. Kinghorn, like the one who gave a fair daughter of the house and land in tocher to the son of Sir Andrew Moray, patriot and friend of Wallace, in whom the Morays of Abercairny find their origin.

  3. But there's more spotted morays around than green ones.

  4. The boy rather feared that Early Bird might make light of it even if the museum curator did not, but the darky remarked that he thought it was a good thing to let morays alone and that he had heard the story from other sources before.

  5. You seem to think the one thing I can swallow as creditable, even probable, is that an officer in the Morays has been pilfering and cheating at cards.

  6. For a raw regiment like the Morays this was no light test; but, supported by a veteran regiment on either hand, they bore it admirably.

  7. The brush had been sharp, but I had the satisfaction of knowing that the Morays had behaved well.

  8. Yet in actual time it was soon overhand dawn scarcely breaking when the Morays with the other regiments of Pack's brigade filed out of the park and fell into stride on the road which leads southward to Charleroi.

  9. Colonel Sir James Ross, who had commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Morays through the campaign of Waterloo.

  10. Of the seven-and-twenty assailants around whom the Morays now closed, not one survived.

  11. I am not used to command the Morays under advice from my subalterns.

  12. To eat too much of the tropical morays is to invite gastric troubles, but no true ciguatera.

  13. In the great family of morays (Murænidæ) the teeth are often very highly developed.

  14. In most of the species pectoral fins are present, and the cranium lacks the combined degradation and specialization shown by the morays (Colocephali).

  15. In many of the morays the jaws are so curved and the mouth so filled with knife-like teeth that the jaws cannot be closed.

  16. This family probably belongs with the morays to the group of Colocephali, although its real relationships are not wholly certain.

  17. The flesh of the morays is rather agreeable in taste, but usually oily and not readily digestible, less wholesome than that of the true eels.

  18. The Myrocongridæ are small morays with developed pectoral fins.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.