Down these steps the Chinaman crept gingerly, but halfway paused with a cry, then cringed back to the head of the ladder, yellow face blanched, slant eyes piteous with fear, as he exhibited an end of stout mooring line whose other end was made fast to a ring bolt in one of the joists.

The tug's mooring ropes splashed, her propeller throbbed, and she swung away from the wall.

The massive oak mooring-post groaned and the deck-seams opened with the strain; the wire-ropes were rigid; one could see no hint of curve.

It took a few seconds for the rush of water to reach the Bohio, and when it did the tug began to sway and tug at the mooring cables, for they had not yet been cast off to enable it to be towed.

This vegetation was so thick that the moor-hens, on reaching it, plunged beneath it and disappeared.

which is likewise observed among moor-fowl.

The red grouse, gorcock, or moor-cock, weighs about nineteen ounces, and the female somewhat less.

It was the fault of the gun captain, who had neglected to fasten the screw-nut of the mooring-chain, and had insecurely clogged the four wheels of the gun carriage; this gave play to the sole and the framework, separated the two platforms, and the breeching.

Atop the mooring mast.

Under the Master's direction, stout mooring-piles of driftwood were sunk into the dunes, block-and-tackle gear was improvised, and lines were rove to the airship.

And we would come on summer days When all around was bright, and set us down And think of all that lay beneath that turf On which the heedless moor-bird sits, and whistles

The construction of the barrage was much delayed by the difficulty in procuring mooring buoys, and it was not completed until the late summer of 1917.

On returning to Thirsk over the Hambleton range of hills, we crossed thousands of acres of moor-land covered with heather in full bloom, looking like a purple sea.

I then hurried round to the Exchange, which is on the Hard near the Docks, a large red building with facings of Cornish moor-stone, a bank on the ground-floor, and the Exchange on the first.

Neaw, there's plenty moor beggin' besides us.

Knowing how suddenly darkness would fall, and not daring to attempt the unknown without light, the travellers looked for a mooring spot.

VA-LEN'CI-A. Taken by Moors, 294, 300; recovered by Cid, 294; Cid master of, 295; Moors besiege, 296, 298; Cid's return to, 296, 296; Christians cannot hold, 299; evacuation of, 300.

They were accused of eating young moor-chicks.

Some they gan wander as the wild crane doth in the moor-fen, when his flight is impaired, and swift hawks pursue after him, and hounds with mischief meet him in the reeds; then is neither good to him nor the land nor the flood; the hawks him smite, the hounds him bite, then is the royal fowl at his death-time."

This recipe is equally suitable for pheasants, moor-game, &c.; but care must be taken always to skin the joints.

The year following I entered Lord Methven's service, and in 1798 planted about sixty acres of the higher moor ground, valued at 2s.

From that to the melancholy grace of the moorland dirge: The linnet in the rocky dells, The moor-lark in the air, The bee among the heather-bells That hide my lady fair: The wild deer browse above her breast; The wild birds raise their brood; And they, her smiles of love caressed, Have left her solitude.

Moors resident in Gibraltar, have frequently slaves with them.

So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dream-like charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

And these friends would each have her take away something for a keepsake, such as rings to wear on her arms and on her ankles (as is the Moorish fashion), silk shawls, etc., so that she had quite a large present of finery to carry away; but we had nothing whatever but the clothes we stood in, and they of the scantiest, being simply long shirts and "bernouses" such as common Moors wear.