"Moory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ow'r yon moory mountain, An' down the craggy glen, Of naething else our lasses sing, But Charlie an' his men. An' Charlie ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... the wary watchman looked over, From tops of Sion's towers, the hills and dales, And saw the dust the fields and pastures cover, As when thick mists arise from moory vales. At last the sun-bright shields he gan discover, And glistering helms for violence none that fails, The metal shone like lightning bright in skies, And man and ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... too solitary, and too far from home, and, as a scene of amusement, not at all equal to the town-links, where they could play at "shinty" and "French and English," almost within hail of their parents' homesteads. The very tract along its flat, moory summit, over which, according to tradition, Wallace had once driven before him in headlong rout a strong body of English, and which was actually mottled with sepulchral tumuli, still visible amid the heath, failed in any marked degree to engage them; and though ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... Onward by "dreary moory Frankfurt" on the Oder, whence they reconnoitred "the field of Kunersdorf, a scraggy village where Fritz received his worst defeat," they reached the Prussian capital on the last evening of the month. From the British Hotel, Unter den Linden, we ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol
... require a long discourse to be uttered." Followed by a wondering crowd of natives eager to help him up and down the rocks, Davis made his way inland to find an inviting country, "with earth and grass such as our moory and waste grounds of England are"; he found, too, mosses and wild flowers in the sheltered places. But his business lay in the icy waters, and he boldly pushed forward. But ice and snow and fog made further progress impossible; shrouds, ropes, and sails were turned into ...
— A Book of Discovery - The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest - Times to the Finding of the South Pole • Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge
... golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet ...
— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson
... every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. It is very amusing to see the cock bird on wing at that time, and to hear ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White |
