The demand of the Turks in the Levant and the Moors in Spain was met by exportations from the various Barbary ports.
Barbary"), a name applied to a breed of horses imported by the Moors into Spain from Barbary, and to a breed of pigeons.
The conquest of Granada in 1492 by the Catholic sovereigns of Spain drove many Moors into exile.
The heraldic sign, three heads of negroes in the Bassarab shield, seems to be of late western origin and to rest on a popular etymology connecting the second half of the word with Arabs, who were taken to signify Moors (blacks).
Arouj and Khair-ed-Din joined the exiled Moors of Granada in raids on the Spanish coast.
The bracken and the club-moss of our British moors grow associated with tree-ferns.
But a few centuries ago, the Berbers of Morocco, known as the Moors to the Rouma, leavened only with a handful of Jews and Arabs, built up in Spain the highest civilization in all the world of that time.
And one by one the Tuareg and the Teda to the south and the Moors and Nemadi, yes, and even the Chaambra fell before the onslaughts of the Camel Corps and their wild-dog Foreign Legion.
When the Moorswere finally driven away the counts asked permission to return home with their brides and gifts.
No long time passed before Grendel came prowling from his home on the moors under the misty slopes.
The Moors returned five years later, and the Cid was prepared to meet them when he received a vision of St. Peter, predicting that he would die within thirty days, but that even though dead he would triumph over his enemy.
This cruel spirit was called Grendel, and he dwelt on the moors and among the fens.
Alfonso, upon receiving the gift, pardoned the Cid, and published an edict permitting all who wished to join in the fight against the Moors to join Rodrigo and his band.
Then the Cid aided Ferdinand in defeating the hostile Moors in Estremadura, after a siege of Coimbra lasting seven months.
Cross Fell is 2,892 feet above the level of the sea, and to half that elevation we have ascended to reach these moors in which it seems to be set.
The Derwent cleaves its rocky way down the valley into Derwent Dale, past Slippery Stones, Rocking Stones, and Bull Clough and Cranberry Clough, with the Bradfield moors rolling away in petrified billowy waves to the horizon line.
There is practically no surface soil, and thus themoors offers little temptation to the "land-grabbers.
The Derwent has here accomplished a distance of exactly twenty miles, and received numberless and nameless tributary outpourings from the moors on both the eastern and western sides.
Then came the battle of Alarcos, and the Moors were all but in possession of the whole of Spain.
Our fields are cultivated with a skill unknown elsewhere, with a skill which has extorted rich harvests from moors and morasses.
Footnote 66: The Moors of Spain, who secretly preserved the Mahometan religion above a century, under the tyranny of the Inquisition, possessed the Koran, with the peculiar use of the Arabic tongue.
Moors buried in the earth might escape his destructive search.
Procopius says in general, that the Moors had joined the Vandals before the death of Valentinian, (de Bell.
He manned his largest ships of war with the bravest of the Moors and Vandals; and they towed after them many large barks, filled with combustible materials.
The citizens who had been educated in the luxury of the Roman province, were delivered, with exquisite cruelty, to the Moors of the desert.
Unconsciously it took him back to the old buried days, when the Devonshire moors and Devonshire lanes knew no hotter rider than Peter Carew.
And out there on the moors at sunrise he had vowed that he would.
Night after night the Maitlands heard him leave the house, after all had gone to bed; and they knew that he went out to tramp the moors till morning, for it was only from utter physical exhaustion he ever slept.
The moors looked bruised and dark under the heavy sky.
I rather liked the idea of a thirty mile drive across the moors before the sun was up, and I agreed to go.
And my other sister Anna, now a widow, pressed me to stay a few days with her at the little house on the moors where my younger sister had lived, and which I allowed Anna to use as her home as she was extremely poor.
I had clean forgotten that I had arranged to drive early across the moors to stop the sale of my foster brother's farm.
Wherefore send to the Lord of the Moors that hath reft it from me, that he render it to you.
One of the five knights that were with him gave him witting of the Lord of the Moors and the brother of the knight of the Red Shield that had to name Chaos the Red.
The Lord of the Moors and another knight are they that war upon her and would fain reave her of this castle as they have reft her of seven other already.
The Lord of the Moors likewise again to-brast his spear upon him.
Messire Gawain taketh leave and turneth him again toward the castle of Camelot, and sendeth by a squire the horse of the Lord of the Moors to the daughter of the Widow Lady, that made great joy thereof.
After that, he made disarm the Lord of the Moors and be brought before the vat wherein was great abundance of blood.
The Lord of the Moorswas come to shoot with a bow, and he heard the noise of the knights, and cometh thitherward a great gallop all armed.
The tidings are come to the Lord of the Moors that the son of the Widow Lady hath slain one of his knights and carried off four to prison.
Lord of the Moors coming, that hath reft your mother of her land and slain her men.
The Lord of the Moors was mounted again on another rich horse and had great shame for that Messire Gawain had overthrown him.
The tidings came to the castles that the son of the Widow Lady had slain the Lord of the Moors and the best of his knights.
