What is "moorlands"

Usage examples of "moorlands".

This time it was a question of enlarging the estate on the side of the moorlands, the sandy, gravelly slopes where nothing had grown for centuries.

Lepailleur regarded the creation of Chantebled as a personal insult, for he had not forgotten his jeers and challenges with respect to those moorlands, from which, in his opinion, one would never reap anything but stones.

Even under the gloomy sky the moorlands possessed a rugged beauty which was calming.

A sudden gust of wind swept across the purpled moorlands, and Gavril began to shiver.

Late afternoon light from the moorlands, filtered by the colored lozenges of glass in the windows, tinged the study walls with wine-rich stains.

When the sky grew dark and the Drakhaon swept out across the moorlands toward the mountains, I knew too late that I and my son had failed.

When he gazed back down at the darkening moorlands, the dizziness increased.

The moorlands of Azhkendir stretched away to all sides, stained the cinder colors of winter: white, gray, and brown.

His purpose then was the lettered life, and he had hopes of the college living of Tweedsmuir, far off in the southern moorlands, where he might cultivate the Muses and win some such repute as that of Mr Beattie at Aberdeen.

Relays of horses had been sent on ahead, and they must mean to cross the Tyne at Corbridge, and make straight across the Durham moorlands to the great Carlisle-London road at Catterick Bridge.

Oh, we have a very mixed environment here, the links, the shore, small woods, hill country, moorlands, and lochans.

The moorlands were studded with pyramidal shapes of concrete, rolls of barbed wire met you at every turn, and men had started to work on the far side of the quarry again, cutting out great slabs of rock where the workmen had left off years previously.

Fields and moorlands stretched to the farther hills five or six miles distant and around the curve of the escarpment on which he sat.