...The squirrel with his back to hisneighbour sat up on his mossy wood, his bushy tailthrown along his back, his two little hands graspinga hazel-nut, which he was in the act of conveyingto his mouth...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...But when the animals, which arecapable of great extension, are fully spread, as in , such apolyp-stock has a mossy, tufted look, and is by no means an unsightlyobject...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...Or he maybe on a rock or an old, mossy log, where he rests serene in theknowledge that his mottled, dull dark-brown, gray, buff, black andwhite feathers blend perfectly with his resting place...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...One end abutted on the round tower, the other on the small traceried chapel, and in an angle of the building stood a graceful well-head crowned with mossy urns...
Edith Wharton 「Kerfol」
...Fromout of the mossy walls of the nest there emerged a growing plant...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Beneathhim the ruffed grouse paces back and forth onhis favorite mossy log before he raises the palpitatingwhirr of his drumming...
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm 「The Woodpeckers」
...The sun had set, the evening was calm, anda mist hung over the countryside when a field-voleappeared at the mouth of his burrowin a mossy pasture...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...For a while peace reigned in the undergrounddwellings of the mossy pasture,and the young field-vole thrived amazingly;from the very outset fortune favoured himabove the rest of his species...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...A fewpaces below him, half-hidden by a gray stump, a green juniper bush,and a mossy brown hillock, lay a white ewe with a lamb at her side...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...In some placeswe were clambering over the topmost branches of thetangle of vegetation, and in others we were burrowinginto mossy caves and grottoes among the roots...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...Thisis exclusively a cottage chimney; it cannot, and must not, be built ofcivilized materials; it must be rough, and mossy, and broken; but it isdecidedly the best chimney of the whole set...
John Ruskin 「The Poetry of Architecture」
...Plucking a leafy twig from thebranches and a gray lichen from the trunk as mementoes of the place, Isat down on the mossy hole, and tried to bring back in imagination thehaunted past...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...They left the mountains on the second day, descending to the lowerlevel of a broad, sterile plain which was studded by the low, greenishpulp-mounds, that resembled mossy rocks more than vegetation...
Roman Frederick Starzl 「The Martian Cabal」
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