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Saviour; He has tasted hunger, and thirst, and weariness, poverty, oppression, and neglect; the very tramp who wanders houseless on the moorside is His brother; in his sufferings the Saviour of the world has shared, when the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, while the Son of God had not where to lay His head.

Sermons on National Subjects Charles Kingsley 1847

The lonely moorside farm — if such a wild and desolate spot could be a farm — was known as

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

For the Bryde that was fit to command a King's ship would be far different from the boy on a moorside farm, and I was weaving dreams like a lass at her spinning when the door was opened behind me and Margaret stood looking in, a light held high in her hand and her arm bare.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

April in the hills, with the curlews crying far out on the moorside, past the Red Ground my grandfather wrought, and where again the heather will creep down, rig on rig, for all the stone dykes, deer fences, and tile drains that ever

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

I laughed to think how we estimate time in the college by the rules of Physics, and how the herd on the moorside did, and wondered who but he could say how long a cow beast would lie and chew her cud, and how many miles a man could run in the time she took to chew it.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

'I'll tell thee what, Matt, I know summat haa that lad Jacob felt when he co'd th' moorside th 'gate o' heaven. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

We were both getting slightly confused when, with a screech of brakes, the train pulled up at the little moorside station that was our destination by rail.

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

Beyond it swelled a long moorside; in front slipped the still stream.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

Strickland's eye found the latter -- a man lying upon the moorside, just above the water.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

They sat, chin on knees, upon the moorside above the Kelpie's Pool.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903