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Sentence Examples If you have a boat, moor it securely or move it to a designated safe place. A low cliff on one bank, with an otter's holt at its foot, betrayed by a crab graveyard, on our side a gravelly shore undercutting the peat moor. The weather held good for us yesterday so we took the opportunity to get up on the moor and bag up the peats ready to bring in. Diversionary feeding involves leaving dead rats and other carrion on the moor for the harriers to eat. The seamen were carried bodily back across the moor although some of them could walk under their own steam. It submitted an application in September to build a floating pontoon, which would allow it to moor boats. Judges said his farm was in a beautiful location, with an impressive mix of open moor, meadows and other pasture. North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor. It's a dreich and miserable place, a landscape of abandoned fridges and cookers, a windswept, unkempt, thistly moor. On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists. After passing a canary-yellow barn, we crossed a small moor with three-star grouse butts and ended up at the hamlet of Ilton. A single vessel can moor in the lee of either island but it is not a comfortable place to stay. For 10 shillings a week, plus his keep, Trevor worked on the moor where Mr Middlemiss had moor rights. The vandals have also defaced rocks elsewhere on the moor, including popular routes for walkers and visitors to the area. The stars were shining far away in the dark sky, and the green plovers were crying mournfully on the dark moor. The moor evolves from geological hazard into a metaphor for dark thoughts and evil deeds. The tramway, the kiddies' fairground, the open moor and tranquillity is really what families value most preciously. Lead by Sir Ensor, the clan has been ejected from their Scottish homelands and forced to plunder the villages on the moor to survive. The tide was still out when we got back to shore, so we could not moor close to the jetty. The harbourmaster should then lead the convoy up to Richmond, where the Venetians will moor up by Richmond Bridge Boathouse at 4pm. Show More Sentences Match your Austrian adventure in the spa with a moor mud soak in the hydrotherapy tub or with a peat body wrap followed with a sauna treatment. The best diving is usually found on the exposed north side of off-shore reefs, but boat skippers prefer to moor up in the lee. The Jetty at Port Fitzroy had my vote as a place to moor if you're a boatie. Mr Foley said the accommodation complex had an added attraction for boat owners who would be able to moor their vessels close to home. Similar licences were granted to a number of individual owners to place moorings and to moor boats at various locations in the same general area. He sees a market for Americans to moor their boats in Mexico year round as well as transient boaters. There is enough space at the venue for 550 limousines, quay space to moor yachts and a heli-pad nearby. The first phase of the development, a 50-berth marina, will provide a safe and secure area for boat-owners to moor their vessels all year round. They said the new pier requires additional lighting to make it reasonably safe for them to moor their vessels. In this event the expedition will haul up the boat on shore or moor it in a safe bay, and then trek to the nearest settlement or air-strip. The Piper Saratoga developed engine trouble and broke up as it hit the moor in thick mist. An RAF helicopter and a police spotter aircraft were scrambled, and 90 rescuers scoured the moor near Keld, County Durham. The British Army is conducting military maneuvers on a remote Scottish moor when a fissure suddenly erupts. Parliament decided to use its army to cut off Rupert's lines of support and so moved off the moor and made for Tadcaster. Whether you opt for an algae, moor mud, clay or plants extract wrap, you will feel completely cut off from the stress of the world. The non-intensive moor was lovely with some hazy silver birch, vivid green mosses, rushes, bilberries, bleached and tufted grasses and a touch of gorse. There is also a place for sailing enthusiasts to moor their boats. They will moor where the original protagonists moored, sleep in the boat where the original characters slumbered, and stay in some of the same pubs and guest-houses. The moor is a vast space of land with lots of tracks and paths. Between Loch Pattack and the peat hag-ridden moor, you will normally come across some white horses, garrons, that add to the dream-like quality of the place. Show More Sentences Almost 100,000 hectares of moor, heath and downland can be yomped across for the first time, and there are guided walks throughout this week to celebrate. Religion still has its place on the moor, with altitudinous abbeys and kirks. In the next few weeks the willow warblers will take over the moor above the house and the cuckoo will pass through on its way to Scotland probably. On the distant southern part of the moor, Kilmar, Sharp Tor and Stowes Hill remain gloomy under louring clouds. Favourable conditions to try to moor at a buoy, climb the mast again, carry out repairs and then get underway again in the South Atlantic. Beyond the castle, the lane follows a level line facing due south, in the middle of a close-cropped moor. The moor is mainly heathland used extensively for the grazing of sheep, cattle, and ponies. Then it's up to the moor itself where the guns take their balloted positions in the butts, simple stone hides screened by turf, where they await the arrival of the birds. Under exceptional circumstances, such as mechanical breakdown, the Corporation may authorize a pleasure craft to moor overnight, at its own risk. In the mountains of Lacaune, the forest is often replaced by an acidophilous moor with bracken fern, Scotch broom, Scotch heath, and heather. A dozen ships had to be sent to St. John harbour, in New Brunswick because they could not moor in Montreal. Or ships from Eastern Europe which moor adjacent to ships over here, with all the obvious risks that this entails. Once evicted, bad customers will likely try to moor at the nearest harbour. It is forbidden at all times to moor a barge or supplier's boat at one of the municipal main piers. The shortage of sheltered safe berthing forces commercial craft to moor off in stormy conditions with potentially hazardous transfers in open boats. She was absolved of the charge because a portrait of a moor hung above her bed. Farmers and landowners planning to plough up or alter moor and heathland in the Peak District have been warned that they now need prior permission. The chemical tanker managed to moor before sinking. Apart from the improvements in performance offered by these, the draught will only be 1.30 m, thus making it possible to moor in exceptional waters. Boats 3, 4 and 5 supply short lines to moor alongside. Show More Sentences Watertight containers, or 'letterboxes', are hidden throughout the moor, each containing a visitor's book and a rubber stamp. Once the fire had been put out, it was discovered that one of the three twite colonies on the moor had been completely destroyed. A variety of surrounding countryside where moor lands covered with heather resulting from the humidity of the soil co-exist in the middle of large stretches of forest and lakes. In the Second World War the moor became a training ground, and the breed was nearly killed off, with only 50 ponies surviving the war. Red deer have a stronghold on the moor and can be seen on quiet hillsides in remote areas, particularly in the early morning. This being so, the construction of new facilities will have to combine this aspect with other systems to moor boats outside marinas, while taking account of the risks for the marine environment. Birds seen on the moor include merlin, peregrine falcon, Eurasian curlew, European stonechat, dipper, Dartford warbler and ring ouzel. Purple moor grass and rush pastures is a United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan, on account of its rarity. Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water fringed bog or moor, loch and riverside. The use of the moor by the military has been a major concern of the DPA since its founding. There are moor hens nesting here, and we've had sightings of mallards, a Canada goose, herons and willow warblers. The most common claim in recent times, is for customary rights to moor a vessel. Out of the 249 man crew, only 87 returned, too weak to moor their ships themselves. Claviceps purpurea is an ascomycetous fungus which grows on the seeds of purple moor grass. In many countries moor frogs have a light dorsal band which easily distinguishes them from common frogs. Larger ships may also be required to moor at the bollards provided at intervals along the canal to allow the passage of oncoming vessels. One method is for the ship to moor alongside a pier, connect with cargo hoses or marine loading arms. From 1955 onwards Sayer kept up a correspondence about the military roads that lead across the northern moor from Okehampton Camp. With heavier snowfall, the road over the moor is usually the first in the area to be blocked. A marina, built at the end of the navigable section, allows summer visitors to moor overnight in Llangollen. Show More Sentences The innkeepers kept a dog on the moor to boost the tourist trade, but assure the investigators they had put it down. Okehampton's location at the edge of the moor means that it has always been a route centre. The horse had been looked after by one of the Colonel's neighbours, Silas Brown, who had found him wandering the moor and hidden him in his barn. Without any consultation he then moved the brigade down the moor and formed into three columns. It seems odd, for instance, that he would lead the horse out on to the moor simply to injure or kill him. Sayer was a member of the committee from its formation, but she resigned in 1957 in protest at its failure to protect the moor as she would wish. One version of the local legend relates that a huntsman called Bowerman lived on the moor about a thousand years ago. Legend has it that Childe was in a party hunting on the moor when they were caught in some changeable weather. Pus-filled stitches pocked the sweaty manhair like stones jutting from a Scottish moor. In the parish of Manaton, near Widdecombe on the moor while some men in the employ of James Bryant, Esq. This granite was transported from the moor via the Haytor Granite Tramway, stretches of which are still visible. Then the boy went out onto the moor to look for something else to play with, and he dropped the flint as he went along. In August 2011 an untouched cist, on Whitehorse Hill, near Chagford, was the first to be excavated on the moor for over 100 years. The site was given by the Prince of Wales, who held the lands of the Duchy of Cornwall to which the whole moor belonged. A popular design concept sets off burgundy fountain grass against blue oat grass, blue rye grass or blue moor grass. The night of his interment saw a phantom pack of hounds come baying across the moor to howl at his tomb. Participants spent the night camped at a manned Tor, before being escorted off the moor by the military the following day. The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water. The cairns could mark the site on which two boys lost their way on the moor and died of exposure in a snowstorm. As well as shaping the landscape, these have traditionally provided a source of power for moor industries such as tin mining and quarrying. Show More Sentences After the start of the Second World War, almost the whole moor was requisitioned for military training. This shieling with a green roof is pictured on Barvas moor where Fin's parents died. Mawle offered to show me his grouse moor, and so we clambered into a noisy Kawasaki all-terrain vehicle driven by Neil Taylor, Mawle's Scottish gamekeeper. The moor takes its name from the River Dart, which starts as the East Dart and West Dart and then becomes a single river at Dartmeet. It leaves the moor at Buckfastleigh, flowing through Totnes below where it opens up into a long ria, reaching the sea at Dartmouth. In 1895, an additional 10,000 acres of moor were leased from the Duchy of Cornwall. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fictional 1994 Quidditch World Cup final between Ireland and Bulgaria was hosted on the moor. Grouse moor management involves routine control of predators such as foxes, crows and stoats. There's nowhere for the boat to moor, so you have to leap on to the rocks, a precarious, heart-stopping feat that allows you to feel like an invader. During her lifetime, Lady Sayer was another outspoken critic of the damage which she perceived that the army was doing to the moor. There is a strict code of conduct governing behaviour on the grouse moor for both safety and etiquette. Avery had visited a grouse moor earlier in the year. If you want to shoot, you want to shoot on a grouse moor. We parked and walked over the moor close to where Sky and Hope vanished. Sclerotium of Claviceps purpurea which grows on the seeds of purple moor grass. I NO WHY MY WIFE SHE TOULED ME SHE BRIVED ME AND TRIKED ME she is not my wife no moor I am dissociated I killed my friend. An exception to this perilous state is Ruabon moor, near Wrexham, which is home to healthy numbers of grouse and other upland species such as curlew and golden plover. From this chaotic skyful of crowding flakes the mead and moor momentarily received additional clothing, only to appear momentarily more naked thereby. There are signs of early occupation in the form of burial mounds and ditches as we reach Seavy Pond and our moor top track bends left across Levisham Moor. The moor is crossed by the A6024 road between Longdendale and Holmfirth, whose highest point is near the prominent mast of Holme Moss transmitting station. Show More Sentences A ranger on Winter Hill constructed two cairns on the moor to commemorate the alleged tragic death of two young men on the site many hundreds of years ago. Just outside the moor is an Iron Age tumulus with a stone circle. Youngsters from Coundon Court and Community College Choir will imitate birds living in moor and marshland, such as snipe, curlew, golden plover and bittern. Fishing trawlers working the area have dredged up large amounts of moor peat, remains of mammoth and rhinoceros, and occasionally Paleolithic hunting artefacts. An experimental system is due to be tested this year at the Dutch port of Rotterdam which will use electromagnets built into the quay to moor giant container ships. Until within these last twenty years, the tenants on other two estates were entitled to carry fail and divot from this moor, for repairing their houses. William Crossing's definitive Guide to Dartmoor was published in 1909, and in 1938 a plaque and letterbox in his memory were placed at Duck's Pool on the southern moor. Generally, moor refers to highland, high rainfall zones, whereas heath refers to lowland zones which are more likely to be the result of human activity. It was not until the Industrial Revolution fuelled demand for all metals and also provided the technology to mine them that mining resumed on the moor on any scale. Several footpaths across the moor pass through the village, including one leading west to Sampford Spiney and one leading south to Nun's Cross and Erme Head. In one incident, in 1924, a woman camping on the moor with her husband reported seeing a hairy hand attempting to gain access to her caravan during the night. Herds of cattle and domestic sheep can be seen apparently roaming free on the moor. A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step. Remains of the targetry system then in use can still be seen in places around the moor. Those trying for a Bronze medal must camp at one of the manned tors on their route, while Silver and Gold teams may camp anywhere on the moor. In the southern part of the moor, the cassiterite was usually found in relatively large grains, but the lodes were of very variable quality. After leaving the moor, the Dart flows southwards past Buckfast Abbey and through the towns of Buckfastleigh, Dartington and Totnes. Watson and Sir Henry pursue Selden on the moor, but he eludes them, while Watson notices another man on a nearby tor. They rescue him from a hound that Stapleton releases while Sir Henry is walking home across the moor. This is not helped by two local councils needing to keep the road clear of snow across the moor. Show More Sentences From that night on, he could be found leading the phantom pack across the moor, usually on the anniversary of his death. The local flora are dominated by heather moor, and there are nationally important invertebrate populations on the surrounding sea bed. In 1844 a factory for making gunpowder was built on the open moor, not far from Postbridge. Later the road from Tavistock to Princetown was built, as well as the other roads that now cross the moor. Improved public rights of way giving people access to mountain, moor, heath, down and registered common land. Terminal reaves tend to run for great distances along contours or watersheds and served to divide the enclosed areas from the higher open moor. The unusual pink granite at Great Trowlesworthy Tor was also quarried, and there were many other small granite quarries dotted around the moor. Gunpowder was needed for the tin mines and granite quarries then in operation on the moor. There is little or no arable farming within the moor, mostly being given over to livestock farming on account of the thin and rocky soil. Various metamorphic rocks were also quarried in the metamorphic aureole around the edge of the moor, most notably at Meldon. In preparation against possible German invasion, protective structures were constructed in the moor, such as pillboxes. Each team was permitted only four training walks on the north moor. Once widely practised by many miners across the moor, by the early 1900s only a few tinners remained, and mining had almost completely ceased twenty years later. Examples from Classical Literature Beyond an awkward touch on samisen, mainly due to her own practice, she was a moor girl, a very rustic. Not only baffled in his search, but lost, like an overfed gorgio, on the moor. In those days he often wandered up and down the linter and across the moor to the Linn, and so down to the lake. By 'scooting' do you mean that you are going to walk across that moor again? But he would not turn into the unkept road that led over the moor to the house. The eye can range far, far over field and moor to the bay of Aalborg, over heath and meadow, and far across the dark blue sea. It was a moor at the time of the battle in 1485, overgrown with thistles and scutch-grass. On the moor with the wind blowing about one 'twas a pleasure to be, but faugh! They're noa bigger, accordinglye to th' place nor yond little haase o' mine up at th' moor end. I came to, to find myself lying in bed, in a little room lit by a lattice window, through which was a view of rolling purple moor. I am in Wensleydale, climbing from the rocky river that leaps amid broad pastures up to the rolling moor. It is easy then to picture the moor as the phantasmal haunt of lost races. He's got sheep on th' moor that knows him, an' birds as comes an' eats out of his hand. I'll fetch the anchors and we'll moor her wherever she happens to be. It seems Robin's fame attracted more visitants than was consistent with the growth of the heather, upon a moor worth a shilling an acre. He was rather thin with living on moor grass but he was as tough and wiry as if the muscle in his little legs had been made of steel springs. The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple-black or awful dreary gray. So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it. Theerfur 'tan't my intentions to moor Missis Gummidge 'long with them, but to find a Beein' fur her wheer she can fisherate for herself. I got him the post of keeper on a large moor on the shores of Loch Ness. Show More Sentences The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm. The drive across the wonderfulness of the moor was a soothing thing. Between Rede and Tyne is a pathless solitude of moor and fell. It is a Yorkshire habit to say what you think with blunt frankness, and old Ben Weatherstaff was a Yorkshire moor man. We did so, and at the end of a few hundred yards lost the tracks as we emerged from the boggy portion of the moor. The moor is very sparsely inhabited, and those who live near each other are thrown very much together. The moor is intersected with paths and the moon was at the full. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little. We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though, of course, you are rather late to see the beauties of the place. After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day. As he drew up upon the moor the clock of Chedzoy struck one. Art thou, then, prepared to confess thy knowledge of the moor? The sun rose while they were crossing the moor, a dazzle of light over the tops of the hills. In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only by a few roaming gypsies. They tumble about on th' moor an' play there all day an' mother says th' air of th' moor fattens 'em. The moor was sounding loud and eerie with the call of large birds. Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land. Our Dickon goes off on th' moor by himself an' plays for hours. Then you returned, sir, and my brother thought he would be safer on the moor than anywhere else until the hue and cry was over, so he lay in hiding there. She was going to walk five miles across the moor to the cottage, and she was going to help her mother with the washing and do the week's baking and enjoy herself thoroughly. Show More Sentences We picked up the track and followed it onward for some distance, but soon the moor rose into a long, heather-tufted curve, and we left the watercourse behind us. In the evening I put on my waterproof and I walked far upon the sodden moor, full of dark imaginings, the rain beating upon my face and the wind whistling about my ears. To hear a hound upon the moor would not work a hard man like this convict into such a paroxysm of terror that he would risk recapture by screaming wildly for help. A few moor farmers have small holdings, where they rear sheep and cattle. Sir Launcelot met up with old King Agrivance of Ireland unexpectedly last weok over on the moor south of Sir Balmoral le Merveilleuse's hog dasture. I get out on th' moor many a day when it's rainin' an' I lie under a bush an' listen to th' soft swish o' drops on th' heather an, I just sniff an, sniff. He had been standing on the moor listening to a skylark and watching him swing higher and higher into the sky until he was only a speck in the heights of blue. Find more words! 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