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- noun Plural form of
moor . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
moor .
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Examples
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The faeries of the world all seem to live in English moors, Scottish highlands, or Irish bogs – at least they do if you read a lot of ‘traditional’ fantasy.
Archive 2009-07-01 Neth 2009
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The faeries of the world all seem to live in English moors, Scottish highlands, or Irish bogs – at least they do if you read a lot of ‘traditional’ fantasy.
Review: Medicine Road by Charles de Lint Neth 2009
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When the LDL via its apoprotein moors to the receptor it is internalized by the normal healthy receptor.
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So free were we in our isolation upon those Yorkshire moors from the trammels of conventionality (one might almost say, civilization), that I think we should have come to begrudge the ordinary interchange of the neighborly courtesies of life, but for occasional lectures from Mrs. Arkwright, and for going out visiting from time to time.
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They explicitly defined the setting as the "moors"-- where "Wuthering Heights" famously took place and where there is indeed a varied landscape of cliffs, bluffs, forests, rivers, and sure why not? waterfalls.
Review: The Wolfman Glenn Dunks 2010
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The moors were a great resource this spring; Emily and Charlotte walked out on them perpetually, “to the great damage of our shoes, but I hope, to the benefit of our health.”
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She did not care to know fresh people; she hates strangers; to walk with her bulldog, Keeper, over the moors is her best adventure.
Emily Brontë 1900
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The moors were a great resource this spring; Emily and Charlotte walked out on them perpetually, "to the great damage of our shoes, but I hope, to the benefit of our health."
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Living rough on the moors are a band of gypsies (including Geraldine Chaplin as the wizened crone, Maleva).
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Living rough on the moors are a band of gypsies (including Geraldine Chaplin as the wizened crone, Maleva).
kewpid commented on the word moors
cf moops
September 8, 2009