morays party, he might have added, would have been ruined by an acknowledgment of English suzerainty.
De Silva inferred from morays talk, that he believed Bothwell to be guilty.
morays professions to Elizabeth may have been a blind, but his letters for Marys private eye have a more genuine air.
morays verbal report is his only source, and morays was hearsay gossip.
At that moment another man came up, evidently in something of a hurry, and he pressed eagerly forward to look at the morays.
But what was the political or personal reason for morays cruelty?
A' the morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk.'
The morays wouldn't attack unless disturbed, and there was no reason for disturbing them.
That Mary should have acquiesced in a compromise demonstrates that she dreaded morays accusations.
Mary does not say, as in morays account, that there is danger of Darnleys bringing her round to his will.
1620s, from Portuguese moreia, from Latin muraena "sea eel, lamprey," from Greek smyraina, from smyros "sea eel."