I did not wear any clothes," said Essie, "and I used to lie on themoss in the sun.
It is delicious to lie on moss, warm moss in the sun.
Ivy and moss and ferns seem to love them, for all the local walls sprout ferns without any apparent provocation, and the walls about this garden are no exception.
Miss Jarvis at the village shop came to the door and waved her hand—I remembered the box of violets and moss and little ferns she had posted to the hospital.
On the shady side of one wall, we have made a moss garden—it was Virginia’s idea, and she takes a very special pride in it, adding new sorts whenever she finds them.
Nevertheless, this lawn is popular, because it is edged at one side with white and pinkmoss rose-trees.
We have not yet settled whether she ought to pay me rent for my wall that she uses for hermoss garden, or I ought to pay her wages for moss-gardening my wall.
It may seem weakly sentimental to those who do not understand, but I confess that, much as I love the smell of burning applewood, it always gives me a real pain to put on the fire twigs that are ornamented with moss or lichen.
As a result, she fairly bulges with pride whenever she exhibits the moss garden, and explains how much of it is her own particular handiwork.
Very small seeds should only have a sprinkling of light earth or of sand, and sometimes only a thin layer of soft moss to exclude light and preserve an equable degree of moisture.
The earth must be kept moist, which is perhaps best done by a thick mulching of moss, the moss being also bound closely over the openings in the vessel, and all being kept damp by frequent syringings.
The "moss culture" will be found particularly valuable for these plants.
Some of the species grow better when altogether taken out of the soil and fixed to blocks of wood, but in this case they require a little coaxing with mossabout the roots until they get established.
The Moss is 4 miles long from east to west and 2 broad.
For thirty paces or more around them, everything looked like summer; the moss was dry, the herbage was green, and the grass swarmed with ants and small beetles; but afar off Hans heard the blasts of wind and the raging of the storm.
The hero besought his father to rise up and stroke his hair and speak to him; but his father answered that he had long lain in his grave; his bones were decayed, and the grass and moss grew over him, and he could not rise.
Elsewhere, patches of moss shone with an emerald brightness, and there were outcrops of rock tinted lustrous gray and silver with lichens.
She pointed toward a spot where the ravine widened into a level strip of quaggy grass and moss which glowed a brilliant emerald.
It was otherwise when he came to where the Beune distilled from its sponge of moss into the rapidly flowing Vezere.
Trailing moss and ferns and vines hung from the boughs, weaving a dense, cool shade about the dwelling.
We lived for weeks on reindeer moss and rock tripe.
He was indeed a great, and a bad Indian, one of the craftiest spies who ever stepped in moccasins; but he lies quiet now on the moss and the leaves.
Helen knew, though the borderman spoke not, that somewhere among the grasses of the broad plains, or on the moss of the wooded hills, lay dead the perpetrators of this outrage, their still faces bearing the ghastly stamp of Deathwind.
He concluded that the way was so open and clear, with nothing but grass and moss to mark a trail, that Wetzel had simply considered it waste of time for, perhaps, the short length of this grove.
Jonathan felt soft moss beneath him; he was now in the woods under the trees.
There's moss under the tree an' there's where the redskins'll lay down to rest.
The richness and beauty of these Links of Forth appeared the more surprising to the boys from the contrast which the scene presented to the dreary wastes of moss and heather which they had seen in the Highlands.
There was nothing to be seen all around but hills and mountains, all covered with brakes and ferns, and moss and heather.
Memory closes On velvet voices, voices of flowers of old That dreamt in her flesh and sang in her voice of gold; Voice of lascivious jasmine and moss roses, Be silent!
Eve's body hid profound retreats as sweet As moss that by the noon's cool breeze is brushed; Gladly came sheaves undone to be their seat, Gladly the grass was by their loving crushed.
O sweet forest, thou invitest me to rest And linger in thy shade with moss and shavegrass dressed, Imprisoning me in swoon of soft caresses That o'er me droop thy dense and leafy tresses.
Upon the moss in shade of elms and alder-trees The peaceful fishers sleep; A long thread swims upon the dying stream.
Moss and liverworts grow here so well that it is very curious that grass is so impossible to cultivate.
The pillars are of clear ice, 1 or 2 inches high, and less than a pencil stem in thickness, growing in a forest like moss together.
At Christmas he sent Christmas cards, on Midsummer Day a bunch of moss roses, and even on St. Valentine's Day a valentine.
I'm in for the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock, bearded with moss and green in the something or other --I forget the rest.
Yates threw himself down on the moss and laughed, flinging his arms and legs about with the joy of living.
I usually cut the shoots wanted for this purpose during the late fall or winter, and then pack them away in a cool cellar between layers of damp moss (sphagnum) to be obtained in almost any swamp.
Between the dome and the paved floor they arrange green trees, then they close the door and the little windows, and cover them on all sides with moss and lute, so that none of the quicksilver can exhale from the chamber.
The joints are stopped up all round with moss or cloth rags.
Spots of rank moss grew on its glaring stone face.
It had once been painted red, but neglect and the weather had caused the paint to shale off in huge patches, leaving blotches of bare wood that looked leprous with moss and lichen.
Sometimes, however, the snow was beaten off the moss on the hillsides and enough was gathered to cook a meal.
A small, flat stone serves for a candlestick, on which a lump of tallow is placed close to a piece of fibrous moss called mun-ne, which is used for a wick.
Fuel is hard to obtain and now consists of a vine-like moss called ik-shoot-ik.
Yet as he lay pressing his face against the cool, green grass, and clutching the soft, damp moss with his hands, it was not sorrow or pain he felt, but only a bitter longing for revenge.
There was no living thing around them, not a fly, not a moss upon the rocks.
Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none, To winter-ground thy corse.
In center background a hollow tree with swinging moss covering its opening.
They carry great garlands of moss interwoven with pine--about two yards for each player, so that it can be held gracefully.
For a log to be used as a seat, two vinegar barrels fastened together, covered with bark-brown burlap splashed with green paint for moss and white for lichen.
Another part of the body used in ancient medicine was the human skull; also a growth called the moss from the human skull, probably of fungoid origin, that appeared on the bone on keeping.
An old writer in the seventeenth century says: "You may see in the druggist shops of London some skulls entirely covered with moss, and some that only have the moss growing on some parts.
