moors

• I fear, if you had been here during this severe weather, your visit would have been of no advantage to you, for the moors are blockaded with snow, and you would never have been able to get out. —  The Life of Charlotte Bronte Vol. 1
• The moors, around Devon in England's West Country, are ravaged by westerly winds, bringing with them unsettled and windy weather, particularly in winter, and the winds in spring and early summer bring the heavy mists. —  BrontëBlog
• Yorkshire moors, a landscape of "intractable mountains, dark woods, deep valleys and dangerous ravines", according to a monk who reached the area in the 17th century. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
• O dusky maiden of the moors, my heart you do beguile-O do not hasten to your chores but stay with me awhile. —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
• Some of us can remember such house weavers in such lonesome cottages on the Northern moors, and have heard the unfamiliar rattle of the loom in a half-ruinous homestead. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature

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