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In the market gardens around and about Newlyn the plums were already setting, the wallflowers, which make a carpet of golden-brown beneath the fruit-trees in many orchards, were velvety with bloom; the raspberry canes, bent hoop-like in long rows, beautifully brightened the dark earth with young green; and verdure likewise twinkled even to the heart of the forests, to the stony nipples of the moor's vast, lonely bosom.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

Tha knows tha arn't a woman an tha nivver can be, -- moor's pity.

Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877

The moor's seasons were, at best, short -- short the golden flush of its June; short the red gleam of its

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

Th 'moor's th' pity, for it's not mich he can do for her.

Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864

During the suffocating Victorian period, feeling herself under pressure to find a mate, Orlando flings herself down in the wild moor's heather, declaring herself - definitively - nature's bride, none other's.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tilda Swinton 2012

That spot, now marked by a motorway sign, is known as El Sospiro del Moro, "the moor's last sigh", immortalised in a novel by Salman Rushdie.

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Nang. foiT, "that you ncvtr? faw thb moor's face before," "Never, * 'repeat - ed Nang-fou,' * I will fwear ic."

The Siamese Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Told to the Son of the ... George Brewer , Champante and Whitrow , Thomas Cook, Vernor and Hood, Richard Corbould 1796

And the whole moor's talking about the way we live. "

Moor Fires 1914

"'Tis an old story that the moor's haunted, and folks have been putting it round that the thing's been seen two or three times lately.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Noa -- they war noa good at heirin -- moor's t 'pity. "

The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885