Moor

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"Moor" in a Sentence (18 examples)

Moor the ship at the pier.

Were you in the moor yesterday?

When she came to the place where the footpath led across the moor, she found small pools of water, and a great deal of mud, so she threw the loaf into the mud, and trod upon it, that she might pass without wetting her feet.

A trout from the river pool, a staff from the wood, and a deer from the moor - "thefts" of which no Gael was ever ashamed.

The Moor has done his duty, the Moor can go.

The moor was covered with heather.

Hugo ran from the house, crying to his grooms that they should saddle his mare and unkennel the pack, and giving the hounds a kerchief of the maid’s, he swung them to the line, and so off full cry in the moonlight over the moor.

But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a sound of galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.

And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville, on which, as it turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them, the three shrieked with fear and rode for dear life, still screaming, across the moor.

I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

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A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.

In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.

the ruins yet resting in the wild moors

And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.

The vessel moored in the stream.

They moored the boat to the wharf.

His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.

[King of] Moro[cco]. Ye Moores and valiant men of Barbary, How can ye ſuffer theſe indignities?

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