Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

The moorfowl does not cry there, the coney has no habitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

From him I learned the story many years before he was either a publican, or a guide, except to moorfowl shooters. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

Indeed, it has been reported that when he was young he sometimes "leistered a kipper, and made a shift to shoot a moorfowl i 'the drift.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832] Reference

From him I learned the story many years before he was either a publican, or a guide, except to moorfowl shooters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference

The only living things there were the wild birds, the moorfowl in the heather, hawks that built in the rock face, and pigeons that made their nest in hollow places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset] Reference

There are black-cock in extraordinary abundance, moorfowl, plover and wild pigeons, which seemed to me to be the same as we have in pigeon-houses, in their state of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

The mist rose and died away, and showed us that country lying as waste as the sea; only the moorfowl and the pewees crying upon it, and far over to the east, a herd of deer, moving like dots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kidnapped] Reference

Shearers 'Knowe, those "adjacent cantons on a single shoulder of a hill," sometimes floundering to the neck in the loose snow of a drain, sometimes scaring the sheep huddling in the wreaths, or putting up a covey of moorfowl that circle back without a cry to cover in the ling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference

Mr. Oldbuck was sensible of the Earl's attention to his nephew; Miss M'Intyre was pleased because her brother was gratified; and Miss Griselda Oldbuck looked forward with glee to the potting of whole bags of moorfowl and black-game, of which Mr. Blattergowl was a professed admirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference

Mr. Oldbuck was sensible of the Earl's attention to his nephew; Miss M ` Intyre was pleased because her brother was gratified; and Miss Griselda Oldbuck looked forward with glee to the potting of whole bags of moorfowl and black-game, of which Mr. Blattergowl was a professed admirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Immediately adjacent is a farm-yard, and we have not only the usual live stock of such a scene, but a fine pair of swans, three cygnets, moorfowl, and solan geese upon the moat; rabbits running wild upon the mount; a rookery, wood doves, and, we are told, nightingales in the castle trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference

I hallooed for some minutes with all the strength of my lungs; but the only response was the rising of a few moorfowl from the marsh, which wheeled cackling above my head, as though wondering what my business might be, and then settled down again in the reedy pool from whence they had arisen at my cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852] Reference

Another time it would be no shot, but the bark of a dog, the cry of a moorfowl, or a signal from watching hind that started him; for the creatures understand each the other's cries, and when an animal sees one of any sort on the watch to warn covey or herd or flock of its own kind, it will itself keep no watch, but feed in security.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2] Reference

A continual succession of insignificant shaggy hills, divided by the course of ten thousand brooks, through which we had to wade, or by the side of which we encamped at night; infinite perspectives of heather, infinite quantities of moorfowl; here and there, by a stream side, small and pretty clumps of willows or the silver birch; here and there, the ruins of ancient and inconsiderable fortresses -- made the unchanging characters of the scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference

A sandy spit, startling moorfowl or it may be dabchicks, sending a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919] Reference

"If she were to come, she would come, and I in the dark of the moon and the moorfowl calling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messer Marco Polo] Reference

“The waur for the country, Mr. Bindloose,” replied the old lady — “they were decent, considerate men, that didna plague a puir herd callant muckle about a moorfowl or a mawkin, unless he turned common fowler — Sir Robert Ringhorse used to say, the herd lads shot as mony gleds and pyots as they did game. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

10 They had been ower the neighbour’s ground they had leave on up to the march, and they werena just to ken meiths when the moorfowl got up.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference

"The waur for the country, Mr. Bindloose," replied the old lady -- "they were decent, considerate men, that didna plague a puir herd callant muckle about a moorfowl or a mawkin, unless he turned common fowler -- Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ronan's Well] Reference

"They were decent, considerate men, that didna plague a puir herd callant muckle about a moorfowl or a mawkin, unless he turned common fowler -- Sir Robert Ringhorse used to say, the herd lads shot as mony gleds and pyots as they did game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference

Mr. Oldbuck was sensible of the Earl’s attention to his nephew; Miss M’Intyre was pleased because her brother was gratified; and Miss Griselda Oldbuck looked forward with glee to the potting of whole bags of moorfowl and black-game, of which Mr. Blattergowl was a professed admirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Some spitefu 'moorfowl bigs her nest.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

The moorfowl cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyrics From the Chinese] Reference