mossiness

• “It dries down to deep mossiness that I found irresistible.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “But wait, above the old medicine cabinet from the house next door that we bought and demolished to build our garage, more mossiness has appeared.”

  Returns « Fairegarden

• “Taking breaks on a road trip is hardly difficult when you are in Northern California where the green makes you dizzy and you want to jump around and roll in all its mossiness.”

  Archive 2008-11-01

• “Grief with a glass that ran -- of Swinburne, or the mossiness of Mallarmé, Pound's verse is always definite and concrete, because he has always a definite emotion behind it.”

  Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry

• “For the first, the ornaments of images gilt, or of marble, which are in use, do well: but the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay, either in the bowls or in the cistern; that the water be never by rest discolored, green or red or the like; or gather any mossiness or putrefaction.”

  XLVI. Of Gardens

• “The sun shone brightly on those two black figures, so very different, and drew out of their well-worn garments the faint latent green mossiness which. underlies the clothes of clergymen.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “His clothes and weapons were also stone-colored, and repeated so exactly the shadings and mossiness of the rock, that one had to look closely to see that it was a warrior and not a pile of stones.”

  Invisible Links

• “There is an appalling mouldiness, an exaggerated mossiness -- the mystery and the melancholy of a city deserted.”

  Two Years in the French West Indies

• “There was no spruceness of biweekly mowing about the lawn, no ambitious spick-and-spanness about the old, white, wooden, green-blinded cottage itself, but rather a restful mossiness of ancient respectability.”

  The Faith Doctor A Story of New York

• “With a brief sketch, therefore, of the circumstances amid which the foundation of the house was laid, and a rapid glimpse at its quaint exterior, as it grew black in the prevalent east wind, -- pointing, too, here and there, at some spot of more verdant mossiness on its roof and walls, -- we shall commence the real action of our tale at an epoch not very remote from the present day.”

  The House of the Seven Gables

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