water-weed

Delicate, snake-like, the water-weed waved and retracted.

thomas mcgrath | letters to an imaginary friend « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

She came to the stream and found it running between blue-flowering mouse-ear and rushes, into a pool which deepened from a sandy shallow: so anon her borrowed raiment was lying on the grassy lip of the water, and she was swimming and disporting her in the pool, with her hair loose and wavering over her white back like some tress of the water-weed.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

It looked like a mass of water-weed, or a huge mop upside down.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

It looked like a mass of water-weed, or a huge mop upside down.

The Goblin Mirror Cherryh, C. J. 1992

They moved forward like all one thing a skein of water-weed, a drift of leaves, till before the question they stopped, and the prow dipped.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

She surfaced and the air pocket was a blob of water-weed.

Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

She surfaced and the air pocket was a blob of water-weed.

Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

His long white beard swayed in it like water-weed.

The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

How wild the water-weed man must have been when he saw something he badly wanted being stuffed down a boy's neck!

The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

He told how the five of them had gone down to see if Goon would drag out the sack next day and what he would do when he found he had been spoofed - he described the watching water-weed man, which caused both the Chief and his plain-clothes friend to sit up straight and look at one another.

The Mystery of the Strange Bundle Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952