Moorish

Examples

• I don't go about asking busy people what seven and sixpence is in Moorish--which I don't understand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was built in the Moorish fashion,--a square building enclosing a court-yard, into which the carriage drove through an arched gateway. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The manufacture entered Christendom either through Greece or by the capture of Moorish paper-mills during the Christian reconquest of Spain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before the end of the eleventh century an Arab born at Cordova, the capital of Moorish Spain, c onstructed the Toletan Tables. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• However, the Moorish heart is stout. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Eastern voyagers go off dancing, like Papageno and the Moorish King in The Magic Flute. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We form rather more than half the list of white passengers on board a small steamer bound for the venerable Moorish town of Tangier, Africa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Moorish guns are not good, and neither are Moorish marksmen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• While the Moors governed there, and the Spanish mixed with them, a Spanish cavalier, in a sudden quarrel, slew a young Moorish gentleman, and fled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We visited the jail and found Moorish prisoners making mats and baskets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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