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  • Along with an effortlessly melodic voice, Moray's willingness to experiment has made him one of the brightest, if most controversial, young talents in English folk.

    Jim Moray: In Modern History 2010

  • CNN could not get any current information about Moray's whereabouts from the Egyptian consulate in San Francisco or the Egyptian government.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2008 2008

  • TATTON: Buck has now dedicated a web page and his Twitter page to securing Mohammed Moray's release but he says it's been very difficult to get information about his whereabouts right now.

    CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2008 2008

  • In the evening, they were packed off to the living room to watch TV while their parents demolished four courses and plenty of dry red in the dining room, and hosttlities had inevitably ensued when the girls 'choice of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang dashed with Parlabane and Moray's preferred Ian fleming adaptation on the other channel.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • All day Saturday they had been alternately playing and fighting with Heather and Stephanie, Moray's wee sisters, in the house and round the garden while their mums drank coffee and blethered in the kitchen and their dads hit into a force eight on the links.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • The boys elected to back down from this Mexican stand-off and retreated to Moray's bedroom for the remainder of the evening, where they played the Escape From Colditz board game and at some point came up with an idea to even the score.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Northumberland's sons, sir Henry and sir Ralph Percy, who were chief sovereign captains, acquitted themselves nobly, and sir Ralph Percy entered in so far among his enemies that he was closed in and hurt, and so sore handled that his breath was so short, that he was taken prisoner by a knight of the earl of Moray's called sir John Maxwell.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • "I live as a man already dead from all civil affairs", he wrote a little later to Moray's agent in England.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Moray's first parliament renewed and ratified all the ecclesiastical enactments of 1560; but his efforts to conclude an alliance with England and with France were alike unsuccessful.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • His career might have rivalled that of the equally low-born Cardinal Alberoni, but for the daggers of Moray's party.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

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