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Not that Mr. H---- was a sportsman; but that it afforded his wife great pleasure to inform her guests, that a certain moorcock was killed by her dear Fabian, or that he had caught the pike which then graced their table, for, she would add complacently, her Fabian was well aware that she took great delight in eating the game taken by his skillful hand Therefore there were no means of escape for him, he must by force become a sportsman, for a wife who is laboring for the emancipation of womankind, never will permit her desires to remain ungratified.— The Home in the Valley
In the flood, round the moorcock dashes under the billow;— Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
"Beneath the fern the moorcock sleeps,— Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters
The moorcock that craws on the brows of Ben-Connal,— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
"Oh, oh! the dark, the dark, and never more the sun shining on the bonny blooms of dark Darruach, never mair the white lambs running, and the gleam on the wing of the moorcock.— The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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