mossed

They'd be going toward the light, he knew, and he pushed himself, stumbling over mossed over logs, creek water soaking into his loafers.

Gabbie Zombie Caleb Stright 2011

The roof of the rustic hut Thatched Hermitage, the mossed stones from the downward rushing water, ferns and water plants completed the perfect setting for an imagination to run roughshod over reality.

Touring With Friends-Ledbury And Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire « Fairegarden 2010

Sat upon a mossed - up flat piece of granite and got very still for awhile moving only my eyes.

Too Much Accuracy? 2008

I sit at the foot of the tree the flycatcher is singing in and lean against its mossed trunk.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

They went noiselessly over mats of starry moss, rustled through interspersed tracts of leaves, skirted trunks with spreading roots, whose mossed rinds made them like hands wearing green gloves; elbowed old elms and ashes with great forks, in which stood pools of water that overflowed on rainy days, and ran down their stems in green cascades.

The Woodlanders 2006

Have you seen an old grey stone on the seashore, when at high tide, on a sunny day of spring, the living waves break upon it on all sides — break and frolic and caress it — and sprinkle over its sea-mossed head the scattered pearls of sparkling foam?

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

Here he went into a deep gray corner, lichened and mossed by a drip from the roof; and being, both in his clothes and self, pretty much of that same color, he was not very easy to discern from stone when the light of day was declining.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Contemplating its great girth — crinkled and a little mossed, but not yet hollow — he would speculate on the passage of time.

In Chancery 2004

A crag, overspread by a tree, was her station: the oak-roots, turfed and mossed, gave

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

The headstones in this part of the cemetery were very old - seventy or eighty years in some cases - and were mainly slabs of slate with mossed-over lettering that was difficult to read.

The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991