How To Use Mossy In A Sentence

Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.
Iceland is a land of extremes: milky-blue geothermal waters steaming in vast expanses of hardened lava next to bright green mossy hills and waterfalls.
Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
One day she sat musing by a forest fountain, dressed in a robe of yellow silk, wantonly plucking the flowers which grew on the mossy parapet of the spring and binding them into a bouquet for the Clerk of Mezlean.
Who of that fierce company brought the trooper to his end we never knew, but when M'Iver and I got down to the level he was dead as knives could make him, and his horse, more mad than ever, was disappearing over a mossy moor with a sky-blue lochan in the midst of it. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn

He made sure he wasn't being watched and leaped over the veranda, landing with a soft thud on the mossy ground.
Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls. Little Women
Forget any romantic notions of setting horse hair traps for rabbits in the pale dawn and then settling down to tickle trout from the mossy banks of the stream.
They are usually found in the mossy undergrowth in woods but we've found them right by the roadside.
Red couches - almost unseen amidst the browns, beiges, mossy greens and taupes of the late '90s - are making their way into living rooms across the U.S.
The grass was mossy and soft, and there were trees and bushes and flowers everywhere.
The reward was a view of a reed-edged lake, snow-capped mountains and a brilliant green mossy floodplain where wild horses grazed.
Donald, a Macgregor's bowerbird, lives in the dark woods of the Adelbert Range of Papua New Guinea. Here, atop a mossy platform and around a young sapling, he has woven his spire of sticks and twigs.
Think of fresh rind of blood oranges and cold-pressed lemon with mandarin and something mossy. Times, Sunday Times
I love the outdoors and adventure in general, which is another neat thing about working in Vancouver, you can do all these neat things in the ferny, mossy woods. Misha Collins: Supernatural’s Warrior Angel : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
I bought the Cabelas scentlok version in mossy oak, it was about 200 bucks .... Four Ways to Customize Your Gillie Suit For Bowhunting
Then Martin ensconced himself upon a lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
We passed the Flying Dutchman, chugged up the lane out of town and on to a bridleway, a nice route of beech and oak and large mossy boulders of gritstone.
The whitewash walls were in good repair but the roof was mossy and many of the tiles were cracked or askew.
So I started with a base of that CIM color that looks kind of mossy green, anyone know the name? and I added some stripes and details. Trying Something Different
Open the door and breathe in the mossy, earthy smell of saturated soil.
Robles was arrested as he drove into Mossy Nissan, where he worked as a shuttle driver and a lot attendant.
And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns. CHAPTER XIII
Chypre perfumes are often described as mossy, earthy, warm, spicy and nature-smelling. What do Chypres Smell Like?
`He fought well, after all, and a fitter resting place would be on the woodland's mossy floor, where I am lying now. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Pecterlis gigantean, with its large white flowers, a fan-shaped fringed lip and a very long spur, is the most spectacular orchid found in mossy fields.
Violet by a mossy stone, 469. glowing, 248. here and there a, 428. in the youth of primy nature, 129. of his native land, 632. oxlips and the nodding, 58. throw a perfume on the, 79. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
From the col, the ridge climbs and then levels out again into a tight area of mossy grass before it steepens appreciably into its final fling.
Over 160 different vascular plants have been recorded at Winskill Stones including noteworthy species such as spring sandwort, horseshoe vetch, meadow saxifrage, mossy saxifrage, mountain everlasting and moonwort.
English graveyards are timidly populated by anonymous, mossy tombstones, but over here they prefer a more dramatic approach. LOVE YOU MADLY
A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
I had a sudden premonition of the proud tower reduced to a pile of rubble overgrown by the plants that had rooted in its mossy crevices.
Keats famously used it in "Ode to a Nightingale" in the line "Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. John Lundberg: Harry Potter's Anonymous Poems
From the Indian languages come chipmunk, mackinaw (a bush jacket), moose, muskeg (boggy, mossy land), muskrat.
Then had come brilliant spots and splashes of color on the summer slopes -- purple butterwort, golden ragweed, aconite, buttercup, deep crimson mossy patches of saxifrage, rosy heather, catchfly, wild geranium, cinnamon rose. Days of the Discoverers
Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur. The Yosemite National Park
Then Martin ensconced himself upon the lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Activation of presynaptic cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) triggers presynaptic long-term plasticity in synapses such as cerebellar parallel fiber and hippocampal mossy fiber synapses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Fuegian arrowgrass Tetroncium magellanicium and mossy deergrass Scirpus spp. are the only abundant vascular plants found in bogs, although bog margins show a wider diversity, including various grasses. Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
There was a sound of crashing through underbrush, the ringing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and an occasional and mossy descent of a dislodged boulder that bounded from the hill and fetched up with a final splash in the torrent that rushed over a wild chaos of rocks beneath him. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
Mossy cliffs -- flowing cascades -- "chiefless castles breaking stern farewells" -- all these were met, and met again, as through Brixen, they reached the village of Mülks. A Love Story
They are usually found in the mossy undergrowth in woods but we've found them right by the roadside.
A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry.
There is much to be said for aging roofs, the quaint old things - atop rickety, silvering cabins; covering mossy manses - so much to be said in fact that I'll shut up about it right now, except to say that I have an old roof.
When melted and poured into water it forms thin brittle flakes, and in this condition is called granulated or mossy zinc. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
Their outstretched branches covered the mossy ground and entwined with the branches of the neighboring trees.
I began to walk barefooted on the soft mossy ground.
It was a bosky place with mossy roots and green arches.
While trying to get my foot balanced on one of the mossy boulders that jutted out of the water, I lost my footing and slipped again.
The little party of four stood in its dappled shade by the fallen ruins of a mossy old hut, left long ago by some forgotten cottar. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
The swift water cuts steep banks in the tough, resilient sod, and the mossy sides of this miniature canyon are honeycombed with mouse-sized holes.
I once read that if you paint it with water with some plain yoghurt mixed in, it will quickly become mossy. Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Smiley Ball 4
There are two waterfalls, and then a sumptuous mossy wood.
Less footsure than Gorath and further encumbered by his bulky staff, it was a constant struggle for him to keep upright as they wound up the mossy steps…
Chaetonotus - Chaetonotus is the largest freshwater gastrotrich and can be found in plant-choked ditches and mossy ponds. Undefined
But then follow the mossy green path opposite to view the lovely boronias, all showing off their own shades of pink flowers.
He was studying a particular type of brain neuron, called mossy cells, which are often damaged in people with epilepsy and are part of the hippocampus. RedOrbit News - Technology
We clambered over mossy boulders beneath a canopy of big-leaf maple, bay, and fir, and covered six-tenths of a mile of sparkling riffles and cascades.
She observed that the pair which he then saw building their nest in her cage, were a male and female, who had been hatched and reared in that very _cage_, and were not in existence when the mossy cradle was fabricated in which _they_ first saw light. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
However, I am quite certain that if the name hinted the promise of incense I would have not been disappointed, even if I found out at the end that there is an underlining mossy, musky quality to the perfume which gives it its “masculine” nuance. Le Labo's Vetiver 46
Toward dusk we made camp on a mossy outcrop of rock shaped like the prow of a ship.
They are as at home in a mossy rock pool or muddy creek as on a spectacular wreck.
Oh, I’m just an optimistic person, ralph … I really believe that mossy is gonna find a job that won’t be so personally degrading soon, there’s an opening on the right for a bad fake 70’s pimp coming up I hear …. Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
I yearn for you as a crab craves the wet sand, a wildebeest the vast savannah, a toad every mudhole and mossy shelf. The Best American Poetry 2010
Just when the filigree of family ties here splays open from my blood, ravelling into the mossy veins ribboning along through the dark peat, shadows in another land take form, tugging on my twine of years tangled in that other place.
So many pretty flowers–love the gaillardia and gazania–but it’s those mossy steps I’m fixated on. chuck b. said this on May 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Reply May Bloom Day 2008 « Fairegarden
They are as at home in a mossy rock pool or muddy creek as on a spectacular wreck.
-- I suspect that this term refers to the beautiful mossy gall, so commonly seen on the branches of the wild rose, which has been called the _bedeguar_ of the rose. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
After a bit of scrub-bashing, we emerged from the edge of a dank mossy glade by a stream.
Below dark cliffs and mossy overhangs lay olive groves, entire slopes terraced with backbreaking plots of retaining walls and water channels.
Fuegian arrowgrass Tetroncium magellanicium and mossy deergrass Scirpus spp. are the only abundant vascular plants found in bogs, although bog margins show a wider diversity, including various grasses. Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
Overhanging the corner of the shed was an ancient apple tree, with greyish mossy growths on its trunk and branches.
Flowing over mossy ledges or cascading into deep pools, these falls are well worth a weekend visit.
Tough brown grass and weed trees sprouted from the gaps between the cobbles, and the mossy walls of what once might have been a huge stone manse.
Delectible, Thick Squirell Stew new website for Old Mossy Outfitters in Northern Manitoba Canada who's bow season has ended and who's going out for a last stand against the deer? ok turkey hunting Q. my shotgun is a rem. 870 wingmaster and lets face it this is a "SHINY" gun i've heard the glare off guns ca Heros n Villians
The Chilcotts were still commonly known as Amossy's tribe, his shade an ever-present influence upon them.
If you hunt on public land and are not covered in the latest Mossy Oak garb and stainless steel weaponry from head to toe, you're looked on as some kind of slovenly hillbilly, unworthy to even be in the field let alone shoot anything. A NEW BREED OF HUNTER
In the native vegetation there are from one to three zones on the lowland islands: coastal, arid (80-120 m), and transitional (100-200 m) which cover the largest area, and three to four more on mountainous islands: closed forest (200-500 m), mossy open forest and mossy scrub (500-1,000 m) and summit pampa above 1,000 m. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
At playtime Beth and Anna hurried to a corner of the field and snuggled down beside a big mossy boulder among the birch trees. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
This is occasioned by the height of the hills which continually attract the clouds and the vapour that is continually exhaled from the mossy ground ... Excerpt: The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
So at last, panting and all foredone, came I among these rocks and saw them open to a narrow cleft that gave upon a gorge a-bloom with flowers, a very paradise; and here, close to hand, a little pool fed by a rill or spring that bubbled up amid these mossy rocks. Martin Conisby's Vengeance
Only the woodpile, friendly mossy logs unsplit, stood inconscient and irresponsible for any share in his black circumstances; and his tears fell among the lichens of the stump he was bowed on till, observing them, he began to wonder whether he could cry enough to make a pond there, and was presently disappointed to find the source exhausted. The Imperialist
The next abseil started with a gentle grass slope but then it dropped onto a monstrous mossy maw. Between a Rock and a Waterfall
The Chilcotts were still commonly known as Amossy's tribe, his shade an ever-present influence upon them.
Mullins says Mossy Greene is his only definite starter but that the two big names are ready to run and will reappear quite soon even if they don't make Clonmel.
The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
We walked, without speaking much, clambered over the stile and through the paddock towards the river and the oak tree whose roots came up through the mossy soil like a tangle of serpents.
Ferns sprout from mossy lintels and trees reach for the sky from small, now-roofless rooms which were the living quarters of slaves.
Open the door and breathe in the mossy, earthy smell of saturated soil.
‘I can only conclude that mossy is scared of me,’ said belac. Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
The banks are steep slides of rocks and mossy roots, pocketed with pitted red sand, driftgrass and slack alluvial soil, and stippled with a scatter of primroses and heaped heather.
Ah , leave me alone in my pubescent park, in my mossy garden.
Its mossy floor was crawling with wildlife, and the tips of the treetops rang with the mindless tittering and singing and chirping of a thousand different night birds.
There's a lovely church garden inside the fence with colourful flowers that edge the old paving stones leading up to the mossy semi-circular steps to the door.
The wings were shards of mossy glass - shards of a broken mirror, each adorned by a frightening eye.
Here we found that perforant path stimulation in rat hippocampal slices evoked long-lasting barrages of synaptic inputs in subpopulations of dentate gyrus mossy cells and hilar interneurons. Naturejobs - All Jobs
Many fine ferns dwell here also, especially the beautiful and interesting rock-ferns -- pellaea, and cheilanthes of several species -- fringing and rosetting dry rock-piles and ledges; woodwardia and asplenium on damp spots with fronds six or seven feet high; the delicate maiden-hair in mossy nooks by the falls, and the sturdy, broad-shouldered pteris covering nearly all the dry ground beneath the oaks and pines. The Yosemite
Overhanging the corner of the shed was an ancient apple tree, with greyish mossy growths on its trunk and branches.
Wu YP, Siao CJ, Lu W, Sung TC, Frohman MA, et al. (2000) The tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)/plasmin extracellular proteolytic system regulates seizure-induced hippocampal mossy fiber outgrowth through a proteoglycan substrate. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
After chasing the black cat, I spend an hour wandering the mossy field where the outlines of a dozen warehouses remain.
The ocean vanishes as the path heads downwards, and when you reach the bottom of a narrow gully you enter another world, where giant ferns brush your sides and water trickles between mossy boulders.
A violet a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!
The canal bank was totally deserted and he was soon leaning his bike against the mossy mill wall.
Her hands and feet were met by a soft mossy carpet that tickled slightly at first touch.
She clambered over the mossy wall at the bottom of the garden and edged round a shed.
Near the sycamore, where an old oak had fallen, the rotting stump was hidden by a high "rockery," edged with conch shells, and over the rough gray rocks a tangle of garden flowers ran wild -- sweet-william, petunias, phlox, and the mossy stems of red and yellow portulaca. The Voice of the People
Of course, much of the hunting clothing market is high-priced but you can easily find good-quality hunting clothing in mossy oak etc but not so much in outfitter camo and digicam. The Best Camo for Hunting Away from Home
Luxurious vines, climatized to this unreal world, clambered over cosy arbours, or clung with gripping fingers to the mossy concrete pillars. City of Endless Night
Hey dummies, deer and elk can't tell the difference between breakup blaze orange-martian electric green and a olive drab n dirt or mossy oak gillie suit. Woolrich Chic
Shafts of sunlight filter through the trees to throw dappled reflections on the mossy boulders.
Mossy lawns that indicate acid soil may be dressed in late November with powdered chalk or lime at a rate of 8oz per sq yard.
Across the fields and hills, old stone cottages are crumbling into mossy graves while canary-yellow and pastel-pink Southfork-style houses spring up, with vast front lawns and inventive stone cladding.
It's a little rooty, a little mossy, rarely muddy - a mild recipe that would call for skinny semi-slicks, save for the frequent pockets of deep sand.
It was enclosed by a circular stone wall, waist-high, with mossy steps leading down to the pool, and was filled with clear water.
And I want mossy green, glittery hair, and I'll ware my silver industrial hinged chocker that I made in Jewelry class, and my chuncky silver rings. Madrigle Diary Entry
Based on a woody, mossy, floral accord, which can include leathery or fruity notes as well, chypre perfumes have a rich and lingering scent.
Beneath the rampart is a tidal river, and on the other side, for a long distance, the mossy walls of the immense garden of a seminary. A Little Tour of France
Abruptly he stops and slaps his hand against one of the mossy embrasures - the gaps in the turreted wall through which medieval archers would have shot at attacking armies.

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