moor-fowl

There are black-cock in extraordinary abundance, moor-fowl, plover and wild pigeons, which seemed to me to be the same as we have in pigeon-houses, in their state of nature.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Directly after breakfast I am going across with Godfrey to the back of Greystock, to see after some moor-fowl.

Tales of all countries 2004

In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.

Old Mortality 2004

And the women sat in the shallows of the lake, isolated in themselves like moor-fowl, pouring water over their heads and over their ruddy arms from a gourd scoop.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moor-fowl pace

Collected Poems William Butler 2002

They travelled across Ettinsmoor for many days, saving the bacon and living chiefly on the moor-fowl (they were not, of course, talking birds) which Eustace and the wiggle shot.

The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

As the old man's voice monotonously occupied the room, working its way mumblingly through the end of Exodus, conveying no meaning to the audience, Gilian heard the moor-fowl cry beside Little Fox.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

Nan did not hear it at all; Gilian but dreamed it, as it were, and though he took it for the call of a moor-fowl, found it in his ready fancy alarmingly like the summons of an irate father.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

About the nest lay the scattered bones of hares, rabbits, and moor-fowl, with here and there a larger one which might have belonged to some young lamb or kid.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

He took the whistle from the General and thought a moment, and put it to his lips and piped upon it once or twice as the moor-fowl pipes in spring.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro