Mos

Examples

• In a moment they saw him, and then me; but scarcely had they discovered me than I commenced firing, lying flat upon my belly in the moss. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Miss Moss, a dark-eyed maid in curl-papers, appeared with the teapot, and, smiling, asked the Colonel how he had slep? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Victor and vanquished rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Upon this lay a thick layer of moss, leaves, or sawdust. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Even the land about Chat Moss was bought up and improved, and all along the line what had been waste stretches began to blossom into towns and villages. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• An immense bog, called Chat Moss, had to be crossed, and Stephenson was the only one of the engineers concerned who did not doubt whether such a crossing were really possible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I was NABBED by Moss of Cursitor Street--from whose GILT AND SPLENDID PARLER I write this--the same that had me this time two years. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A single basket made of moss, once containing plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The clear, cold sunshine glances into the brittle woods and approvingly beholds the sharp wind scattering the leaves and drying the moss. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A jagged stone was lying among the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I alighted upon the soft moss easily and without mishap, and turning saw my enemies lined up along the further wall. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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