68 adjectives to describe mooring

It is a silent, cloudy shape which haunts lonely moors, and follows travellers, but rarely does more than scare them.

On one side the barren moor, getting dim in the distance, rolled back to the edge of the low country.

And for days the maid in the cottage door Sat and looked o'er the dreary moor, Her cheeks grew white 'neath her blinding tears, And the sunset rays seemed cruel spears That pierced her heart; and ashen gray Turned the earth and sky, the night, the day; But at last a star shone high above The tender star of the heavenly love.

From Derby to Northumberland it forms vast and lofty moors, capping, as at Whernside and Penygent, the highest limestone hills with its hard, rough, barren, and unfossiliferous strata.

At first there are glimpses of the lofty moors on the opposite side of the dale, where the sides of the bluffs are still glowing in the sunset light; but soon the pathway plunges steeply into a close wood, where the foxes are barking, and where the intense darkness is only emphasized by the momentary illumination given by lightning, which now and then flickers in the direction of Lockton Moor.

Then Beltane turned him suddenly away, and with broad back set towards Mortain, strode off across the desolate moor.

Probably at one period this district was a rough, uncultivated moor.

Jackson's office as labour-master kept him constantly tramping about the sandy moor from one point to another.

" Later, the rector came to them to mention that he would not sleep at home that night, and Shirley had better stay with Carolinearrangements which they could not but connect with a glimpse of martial scarlet they had observed on a distant moor earlier in the day, and the passage, by a quiet route, of six cavalry soldiers.

He was living among the bleak, bare moors of Dumfriesshire at Craigenputtock, where he was consoled at times by visits from Jeffrey and Emerson, and by letters from Goethe, and where he wrote that strange and rhapsodical book "Sartor Resartus," containing a considerable portion of his own experience.

The king came in an almadia, accompanied by many principal Moors in other boats, all decked with flags, and with many trumpets, cornets, and sackbuts, making a great noise.

" I may mention the opinions of the more respectable Moors, as to the mission.

So he sailed; but saddest 'tis alway Not for those who go, but for those who stay; And her sweet eyes gathered a shadow dim As days went by with no news of him, And weeks and months, but at last it came, As the gray moor shone with the sunset flame Her quick eyes glanced the strange lines o'er, Then she fell like dead on the cottage floor.

'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched before

And the most exasperating thing of all was, that while some tracts had too much water, it was so scarce in others, that whole fields lay like dry moors, where sand and earth whirled up in clouds with the least little breeze.

They lead through hills and levels lone, Green fields, and woodlands overgrown, And where deep waters pulse and moan; By ruined tower, by darksome dell, The home of night-birds fierce and fell, Wherein strange shapes of Horror dwell; Out to the blessed sunshine free, The breezy moors of liberty, And skies outpouring harmony; By palace-wall, by haunted tomb, Through bright and dark, through joy and gloom:

Only in the very bosom of the valley, a soft mist hangs, increasing the sense of distance, and softening back one hill and wood behind another, till the great brown moor which backs it all seems to rise out of the empty air.

The wat'ry Length of these unjoyous Moors Does all the flow'ry Meadow's Pride excel, Through these I fly to her my Soul adores; Ye flowery Meadows, empty Pride, Farewel.

my journey, rugged and uneven, Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind; But hearing thee, or others of thy kind, As full of gladness and as free of heaven, I, with my fate contented, will plod on, 30 And hope for higher raptures, when life's day is done.

Beyond the ruin and through the opening of the great east window, now bare of tracery, you see the purple moors, with the ever-formidable Roseberry Topping holding its head above the green woods and pastures.

I saw six little Brontë babies lost in the spaces of the illimitable moors.

The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.

The party of pro-slavery reaction was for the moment in the ascendant; and as by an irresistible impulse, the Supreme Court of the United States was swept from its hitherto impartial judicial moorings into the dangerous seas of polities.

Adieu, brave Captain; when you have need of a thorough rover, and dream of stern-chases and wet sails, think of him who visited your ship at her lazy moorings.

Northwards are the dense woods at Mulgrave, the coast as far as Kettleness, and the wide, almost limitless moors in the direction of Guisborough.

68 adjectives to describe  mooring