moor the boat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But this year, on this very sunshiny morning, he had announced at breakfast that he could not let us go to what we called our moor-home. From Wordnik.com. [Melchior's Dream and Other Tales] Reference
The moor is now home to a herd of goats and over 25 black slugs. From Wordnik.com. [Inverness « Mad Dave and Lil] Reference
I think running water is much more attractive in moor and mountain country than in the fat and sluggish South. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
The moor was the black man, deathly jealous on stage and screen. From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
The drive across the wonderfulness of the moor was a soothing thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Garden] Reference
In the moor is a house, and in that house is … well, it's just too terrifying to talk about!. From Wordnik.com. [Island Packet: Home] Reference
On the moor was a throng of phantoms flitting on Petru's right and left hand, before and behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only by a few roaming gypsies. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only by a few roaming gipsies. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Silver Blaze] Reference
In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only be a few roaming gypsies. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]
In British terminology, a moor is a an swath of rolling, but infertile land -- so, Fort Reno, perhaps?. From Wordnik.com. [DCist] Reference
In every other direction the moor is a complete wilder - ness, inhabited only by a few roaming gypsies. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]
The floor of the moor is a thousand feet above the surrounding Devonshire countryside, from which it rises abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
The flowers rain in a gust; it is no racking storm that comes over this green moor, which is afloat, as it would seem, in these waves. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Noble Plays of Japan From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa] Reference
ON the moor is the creeping grass. From Wordnik.com. [Lyrics From the Chinese] Reference
He feels he can pass safely over the "moor", the "fen", the. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Th 'moor's th' pity, for it's not mich he can do for her. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Archer and Other Tales] Reference
The symbol is certainly nothing new, there's one carved in a stone on Ilkley moor which is attributed to the bronze age. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
But I want to know why the word 'moor' should have been written? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference
The other words were all simple and might be found in any issue, but 'moor' would be less common. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference
The WOODCOCK preferr'd his lone haunt on the moor. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball] Reference
There are plenty of moor-hens or water-hens in these reedy pools. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
It was as if the moor were waiting, and holding its breath while it waited. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
At the Monaco Boat Show they don't want to moor up alongside an identical yacht. From Wordnik.com. [The VIP DIY Super-Yacht Club] Reference
All round him stretched the undulating moor, purple in the late summer sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
The girl looked round the ragged moor, brooding in the twilight, and half hesitated. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Upon reaching the island the brother went to moor the boat, and George called to him. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
When I told him about breaking in from the moor, he hummed and hawed and gloomed at me. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Maynard stood looking after her till she was swallowed by the dusk and surrounding moor. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
"We're all on the moor these days," says he, "and keeping a man from his work seemingly.". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The mist is very close to our doors, and in a very few steps we are lost on a trackless moor. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Once upon a time there stood in the midst of a bleak moor, in the north country, a certain village. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
This last colour is the most rare, and is only found on one particular moor, at the top of a distant hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
He was leaning against a gate which gave egress from the moor into an adjacent pasture field towards which her steps were bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"You must go to the witches 'moor at midnight and gather it there," and big tears stood in his eyes, "and you must go alone, all alone.". From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
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