moorstone

Hidden among the great piles of moorstone heaped upon the tor is a cave known as the Pixies 'House.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

'This memorable place is only a great rock of moorstone, out of which a table and seats are hewn, open to all the weather, storms and tempests, having neither house nor refuge near it by divers miles,' wrote Prince.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

'Tis a gert slab of moorstone said to have come from Crokern Torr, where the tinners held theer parliament in the ancient times.

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

By the side of the road, where the track from the top of the common crossed it at right angles and ran through a gate past the narrow wood, was a thin mound of turf, six feet by one, with a moorstone to the west, and on it someone had thrown a blackthorn spray and a handful of bluebells.

Five Tales John Galsworthy 1900

By the side of the road, where the track from the top of the common crossed it at right angles and ran through a gate past the narrow wood, was a thin mound of turf, six feet by one, with a moorstone to the west, and on it someone had thrown a blackthorn spray and a handful of bluebells.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Kaolin is the very same with the clay called in Cornwall [Transcriber's note: word missing] and the petuntse is a granite similar to the Cornish moorstone.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

If these parts of the composition be less distinct, or if only two of them be visible to the eye, it is termed porphyry, trap, whinstone, moorstone, slate.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766