| 单词 | moorfowl |
| 例句 | Blackcock and moorfowl, bushels of snipe, black puddings, white puddings, and pyramids of pancakes, formed the second course. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z We carried in leathern pouches a store of bread and meat for the midday meal; and William had made shift to shoot a moorfowl that he spied running midst the gorse by the wayside. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Come, let us climb higher, for amid yon gorse and bracken on the hill we shall meet with partridge, moorfowl, or perhaps, better still, a woodcock. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z We had a moorfowl and mutton-chops for dinner, well cooked, and a reasonable charge. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 In the same way moorfowl means, not a moor that is connected with a fowl, but a fowl that is connected with a moor. A Handbook of the English Language I hear of a disease among the moorfowl. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z Already he had struck a fine moorfowl that ran amongst the gorse and I a hare that sat upright beneath a leafy beech, thinking himself well hidden. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z But the falcon has another matter in hand than that of bringing down a sluggard pheasant; for moorfowl, when fairly on the wing, scud along like the wind. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The moorfowl does not cry there, the coney has no habitation. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn “Is it the same Mr. Mowbray,” said Mr. Tyrrel, “who still holds the estate?—the old gentleman, you know, whom I had some dispute with”—— “About hunting moorfowl upon the Spring-well-head muirs?” said Meg. St. Ronan's Well ‘Perhaps upon his mouldering breast Some spitefu’ moorfowl bigs her nest.’ The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Now and again a woodmouse scampered on fallen log, a hare sprang away from her form, or a moorfowl scuttled to cover in the bracken. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The valley is reached, and the moorfowl, flying low, are hidden from view by the tops of the trees; but the hawk can be seen scudding along above them. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z She had prepared with her own hands a moorfowl pie and potted nowt's head, besides a profusion of what she termed "trifles, just for Mary, poor thing, to divert herself with upon the road." Marriage Indeed, it has been reported that when he was young he sometimes "leistered a kipper, and made a shift to shoot a moorfowl i' the drift." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 As those solemn strains floated over the wild landscape, startling the moorfowl untimely in his nest, I could not help thinking of the hunted Covenanters of Scotland. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine A woman with a kindly face jogged me on the elbow, and from the neuk of her plaid gave me a bit of oatcake and a piece of roasted moorfowl. Salute to Adventurers If she were to come, she would come, and I in the dark of the moon and the moorfowl calling. Messer Marco Polo "Only think, sisters," observed Miss Grizzy in an undertone, "what reflections we should have to make upon ourselves if the child was to resemble a moorfowl!" Marriage |
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