Which preposition to use with moored
They say to hush the common talk 'tis time that I be wed, And to his home by some fond Moor in bridal veil be led.
And Valentinian all loose and ruffld a Moment after the Rape, and all this you see without Scandal, and a thousand others The Moor of Venice in many places.
"Never daunton youth" was, I remember, a saying of my grandmother's; but it was the most dauntoned youth in Scotland that now jogged over the moor to the Edinburgh highroad.
The hulk and tug were moored at opposite sides of the wreck, forward of her engine room, and thick wire ropes that ran between them had been dragged back under the vessel for some distance from her bow.
"I won't cross the moor with you.
And here the same lady, or anotherfor likeness is identity on tea-cupsis stepping into a little fairy boat, moored on the hither side of this calm garden river, with a dainty mincing foot, which in a right angle of incidence (as angles go in our world) must infallibly land her in the midst of a flowery meada furlong off on the other side of the same strange stream!
Seven Moors in chains he led with him, And one arm's length aloof Came a dog of a Moor from Morocco's shore In arms of double proof.
Sharp was murdered on May 3, 1679, in a moor near St. Andrews.
This they found moored under a bluff, and Gabe, pointing upward, said the blockhouse was there.
a-week; he threw up my employ, and went to work upon the moor for 1s.
Jackson seems to have won the esteem of the men upon the moor by his judicious management and calm determination.
Craft of every possible variety may be seen moored along the levées, and the markets and adjacent streets crowded with people of almost every nation in Europe, Africa, and America, who create a frightful confusion of tongues.
The Tom Tough had been moored below the shoals, and was now moored in a secure position below Curiosity Peak.
During the greater part of this time Lord Elgin was on board the 'Granada,' moored off Pey-tang, suffering all the anxieties of an active spirit condemned to inactivity in the midst of action: responsible generally for the fate of the expedition, yet without power to control any detail of its operations; fretting especially at the delays which are, perhaps, necessarily incident to a divided and subdivided command.
For Aliatar, one sad morn, Mounted his steed and blew his horn; A hundred Moors behind him rode; Fleeter than wind their coursers strode.
We have moored between two flats with trees upon them; the mainland on the left, and an island (Bush Island), recently formed from the mud of the river, on the right.
" Chantel drummed on Heywood's long table, and smiled quaintly, with eyes which roved out at window, and from mast to bare mast of the few small junks that lay moored against the distant bank.
" Cut to the heart by words so rude, The Moor within the palace stood; Say what he could, 'twas but to find His vain word wasted on the wind.
He is made not so much to convert the moor into the field, as the field into the rich and gorgeous garden.
He was immediately carried to a state-room in the cabin, where he remained in great agony until the vessel was moored alongside the levee, when he was carefully removed on a litter to a hospital on shore.
" Some of these reunions took place in the lofty hotels moored like a sonorously named fleet of battle-ships along the upper reaches of the West Side: the Olympian, the Incandescent, the Ormolu; while others, perhaps the more exclusive, were held in the equally lofty but more romantically styled apartment-houses: the Parthenon, the Tintern Abbey or the Lido.
Yon tall ship, which is moored without the smaller craft of our seas, is the vessel of a Lutheran from the islands of Inghilterra.
"Your affectionate son, "T.T." "Mr. Heale," said Tom next, "are we Whigs or Tories here?" "Whyahem, sir, my Lord Scoutbush, who owns most hereabouts, and my Lord Minchampstead, who has bought Carcarrow moors above,very old Whig connections, both of them; but Mr. Trebooze, of Trebooze, he, again, thorough-going Toryvery good patient he was once, and may be againha!
To guard against a repetition of such an attack, a system of guard boats, some moored across the river and some patrolling, was established, entailing considerable extra work on the sailors.
At nightfall we moored beside the bank, where the forest was open enough to permit a comfortable camp.