Exmoor is wet like a bath sponge; no use ditching it for drainage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Hunt] Reference

The point of the anecdote is contradicted by what I saw in Exmoor, and exactly opposite to what has happened legislatively, but it still makes good telling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Hunt] Reference

But Grimsdale preferred Exmoor, the game being much larger.    From Wordnik.com.  [the deer leap]

The river Exe rises in a bog on Exmoor, beyond the borders of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Various tenures show that later Kings kept Exmoor as a preserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

It seems a little odd to think of Exmoor ponies being mentioned in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Exmoor, so that many people marvelled if such a man was bred there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

Exmoor, and a particular gift of narrative, all place this novel of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

To all who live in the West Country, who says Exmoor says "the red deer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

I have told you how it is fenced by Exmoor, and lies within sight of Dunkery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

At this time of the year it somewhat resembled the general appearance of Exmoor.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference

But stag-hunting elsewhere than on Exmoor is virtually an archaic imitation of a sport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

Birds abound on Exmoor; snipe and woodcock, partridge and black-game, plover and wild-duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

The beauty of Exmoor is a stranger beauty and more remote than that of these lovely villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

It is difficult to imagine any moorlands destitute of superstition, and plenty linger on Exmoor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

A pair of baby marmoset monkeys, along with several other animals stolen from England's Exmoor Zoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2006] Reference

It lies high above Selworthy, and before it stretch the long flat curves of Exmoor; below, Luccombe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

Melrose shook his head, wondering if the man were stalling, or merely dreaming of Auchnacraig «and Exmoor.    From Wordnik.com.  [the deer leap]

As far as agriculturists are concerned, 'Exmoor is best left alone -- the "peat and heather in hill and dale."'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Exmoor stag-hunting is far-famed, for it is the only corner of England where wild red deer are still to be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Besides the wild-deer on Exmoor, there are, as everyone knows, creatures almost as wild -- herds of Exmoor ponies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Had she not scampered over these same moors on a half-wild Exmoor pony, bare-backed, and with a halter for a bridle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

One has heard of strangers who have been disappointed by the first sight of Exmoor, for its heights are not very evident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Now the wisest person in all our parts was reckoned to be a certain wise woman, well known all over Exmoor by the name of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

Exmoor was a long way from Blandford, and in her world of fractured emotions she'd decided not to waste any more time on Gittings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whispers Of Betrayal]

Bodmin, crossed Bodmin moor (a little Exmoor), and skirted Dartmoor, just north of Great Links Tor, arriving at Exeter at high noon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

The "forest" of Exmoor is about thirty-five miles in extent from east to west, and twenty from north to south, running from the valley of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

There was a Saxon palace at Porlock, and also at Dulverton, from which they might hunt on Exmoor, and it may very well be that Alfred the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

Exmoor is not generally heather-covered, but its tors and hillsides are clothed with a wiry colourless grass and the hardy, prickly furze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

Mr R.J. King has observed that Exmoor, 'still lonely and uncultivated,' was probably at one time during the English conquests a boundary or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Devon, wildly beautiful Dartmoor and the coloured splendour of Exmoor, the patrician walls of Bath, and the high romance of ancient Bristol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference

By far the greatest part of Exmoor lies in Somerset, so that here one must not wander far amongst great round hills, wide distances, and deep combes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

At the same time, in his 'Exploration of Exmoor,' Mr Page observes that a true description of the valley of Badgeworthy Water would very nearly represent Mr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

The last she saw of him was this, that he went down a ladder somewhere on the wilds of Exmoor, leaving her with bread and cheese, and his travelling-hat to see to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

Exmoor, as far as the contour of the ground is concerned, is a little like the more up-and-down parts of the veldt, and scouting there would be very much like scouting here.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Rimington] Reference