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' He was pointing to a trickle of muddy water leaking from between two boulders into a mossy puddle moistening the roots of a self-conscious adolescent pine tree
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She looked at the mossy and eroding concrete and could scarcely imagine so ancient a time
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The three men walked on, leaving the mossy alleyway through a
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The grounds were roughly walled with loose stone and the lawn was nothing but some mossy slopes leading up to the doors between the trunks
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The garden is long and thin, hedged on both sides with an old, mossy path of paving slabs running down the middle from a small patio area by the house
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If so, how dark would her visions be now if she could still paint them? But he had been with this woman, except for her origin in the deep medical lab, her visions weren’t really that dark, no darker than a mossy bank in the shade of thick old trees
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and towers themselves looked worn and mossy, but not actually in
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This court attracted flocks of colorful wildlife, and it was one of the quietest places within the walls as the purple grey of dawn battled the chill of dark down among these mossy stones
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While he looked up at those eroded and mossy gates leaking a little trickle of water from twelve feet above, he thought of that lake runner just scudding along before a fair wind up there on Chardovia Lake
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A brook carved fanciful shapes into the rock, and he was admiring it from it’s mossy bank when he came to a thick plank spanning it
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But as they went into the depths of the trees, Hansel dropped a little white pebble here and there on the mossy green ground
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were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance,
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He stood on a wide, mossy ledge looking out over a pond or lake in a grotto
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Now, due to the intense cold, the woody vines were extinguished, the only handholds mossy wet cracks in the rock
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His last visual impression was of the bottle rolling down the hill out of the weeds, then stopping on the mossy hillside in anticlimax
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Once they were past the last few trees and plants, a trench of sorts lay there; it was mossy but clearly man-made with clear-cut lines and angles defining it, not deeper than the height of a man
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mossy grass to the river bank
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Walter Blythe suddenly rose from a mossy cushion behind a little clump of firs where he had been reading
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to a small stretch of pointed stalagmites, their mossy bases
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Ridged tires dug in to carry them over pine needles and around a mossy boulder
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I laid down on the mossy ground to rest, hearing the sound of water splashing into a little pool
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The mossy roof blended in with the hardwoods and surveyors
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The Old Man of the Sea smiled, showing off his mossy green teeth
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Cries of toads and owls reverberated over the mossy hills
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They found themselves standing on the mossy earth by the aged stone columns and gravestones of the Ruins at the Crossroads of the Ghastly Fens
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They found themselves on the mossy hills of the Burial Ruins at the Crossroads of the Ghastly Fens
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Leif heard the rhythmic hoots of owls and the cries of badgers throughout the mossy hills
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Zeno stroked the coarse black hair, caressed the cheeks and led the weeping youth to a mossy log where they sat, arms around each other
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They, too, have unruly manes of mossy hair, like our seahorses
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’ He pulled a very willing Uretep onto the smooth mossy ground between the boulders
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there, the grass was mossy and a small pond, well
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The evening before the children picked Shamrock of which there was plenty from the mossy banks near the railway at the end of the park
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There was a high wooden fence around the pasture, and near its entrance gate a half barrel was filled with mossy water
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There, he set me down on a mossy area
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The mossy marbles rest
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roots, gutters, the mossy rooftops, marking the
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The house did have a small front garden, or rather something abattoir-like that had a low wall around it, mossy tiles and three different rolley bins
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She walked around the wide trunk, stepping in between massive roots that protruded through the mossy ground
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With a plan decided, and a growing wish to leave the dark, creepy forest behind, Harmony stepped out of the mossy patch
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mossy log under the outstretched arms of a dark, sparse bush - a child, she could see
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They clattered down the loose stones of the incline to the mossy culvert, holding
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watery crevices and mossy rocks where her light-trick camouflage could fool even him
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I could see the sun’s rays piercing between the trees, onto the brown mossy blanket that covered the floor
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Brother Francis crumpled and fell, bleeding profusely, to the mossy ground
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Toby was sitting on the mossy ground, staunching a wound in his arm
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He walked on until the ground became mossy and softer
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The grass appeared to have a slightly mossy texture to it
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peeked around the roots of the mossy log that Sue had chosen
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Keeping their eyes out for signs of the others, they picked through the trees beneath the songs of birds and a new mossy smell, until they came upon a paved road running north and south
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The water cascaded, then disappeared down the sloping hillside through trees and mossy rills, a watery choir of changing volumes, sounds, and moods that brought joy and peace to my heart
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Instead of the clutter of pools and mossy fallen logs, the ground was dry and covered with pine needles
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in a shallow mossy area with broad-leaved plants above him
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He breathed in the crisp, earthen and mossy forest air and sighed deeply
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She was not aware of the ship itself but the expanse of water and the breeze that massaged her face, her nose filling with its mossy, musty, almost musky scent
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Your boots won't grip on the mossy rocks, and the stones roll away beneath your feet
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He turned to see Guinier propped against a large mossy rock, breaking off pieces of a twig and tossing them into the water
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with dozens of mossy rocks, some of which time had left
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like rolling headway numbers pumping over the airwaves, into the damp outskirts, of mossy solitary under caverns, of the fluorescent green tropical sea
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He bowed slowly, his head almost touching the mossy ground, “I am
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to the mossy floor of the small woods
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This passage was much wider than that one, and the stones that arched over its entrance were old and mossy
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But as they quit the dungeon, stumbling over a flight of broken steps that curved along a mossy wall, Scott's mind lingered over its one last, living occupant: Nancy
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To the right of the painting and opposite her sat the man Adam atop a mossy boulder
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And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed
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Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls
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"Linton is just six months younger than I am," she chattered, as we strolled leisurely over the swells and hollows of mossy turf, under shadow of the trees
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so remarkable a distinction, as a black mossy tuft, out of which appeared
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was wholly taken into the soft laboratory of love, and the mossy mounts
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Her long hair had a faintly mossy look about it
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Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose
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When they issued from the stunted woods which clung to the barren sides of the mountain, upon a flat and mossy rock that formed its summit, they met the morning, as it came blushing above the green pines of a hill that lay on the opposite side of the valley of the Horican
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Divan, walls, ceiling, floor, were all covered with magnificent skins as soft and downy as the richest carpets; there were heavymaned lion-skins from Atlas, striped tiger-skins from Bengal; panther-skins from the Cape, spotted beautifully, like those that appeared to Dante; bear-skins from Siberia, fox-skins from Norway, and so on; and all these skins were strewn in profusion one on the other, so that it seemed like walking over the most mossy turf, or reclining on the most luxurious bed
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—Or again, note the meanderings of some purling rill as it babbles on its way, tho' quarrelling with the stony obstacles, to the tumbling waters of Neptune's blue domain, 'mid mossy banks, fanned by gentlest zephyrs, played on by the glorious sunlight or 'neath the shadows cast o'er its pensive bosom by the overarching leafage of the giants of the forest
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past apple-orchards where bending boughs were heavily loaded with mellow fruits exhaling fragrant odours, through the cool shades of lofty avenues of venerable oaks, whose overarched and interlacing branches formed a roof of green, gilt and illuminated with quivering spots and shafts of sunlight that filtered through the trembling leaves; over old mossy stone bridges, spanning limpid streams that duplicated the blue sky and the fleecy clouds; and then again, stretching away to the horizon on every side over more fields, some rich with harvest, others filled with drowsing cattle or with flocks of timid sheep that scampered away at the sound of the passing carriages
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They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree
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By this time Pearl had reached the margin of the brook, and stood on the farther side, gazing silently at Hester and the clergyman, who still sat together on the mossy tree-trunk, waiting to receive her
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She thought of the dim forest, with its little dell of solitude, and love, and anguish, and the mossy tree-trunk, where, sitting hand in hand, they had mingled their sad and passionate talk with the melancholy murmur of the brook
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With a darkening face my friend strode along the margin, eagerly observant of every muddy stain upon the mossy surface
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Then the overflowing water would make a separation between his breast and glossy white belly; at the bottom of which I could not escape observing so remarkable a distinction, as a black mossy tuft, out of which appeared to emerge a round, softish, limber, white something, that played every way, with ever the least motion or whirling eddy
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pleasure, and give it the more play for its life, he passed up his instrument so slow that we lost sight of it inch by inch, till at length it was wholly taken into the soft laboratory of love, and the mossy mounts of each fairly met together
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On reaching the copse, Levin got out of the trap and led Oblonsky to a corner of a mossy, swampy glade, already quite free from
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In celebration of his eighty years, Dad had brought out the foldaway gazebo we had used for Thomas’s christening, which flapped, mossy and listless, at the end of the garden where, through the open door that led to the back alley, a succession of neighbours popped in and out, bringing cake or good wishes
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And even then, when whatever gust of self-disclosure had passed, they’d keep sitting out on the slack plastic deckchairs, drinking beer from the mossy cooler, or soda if Richard was feeling virtuous
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mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of the old marl-pit making a red background for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not more beautiful
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The mossy thatch of the cow-shed, the broken gray barn-doors, the pauper laborers in ragged breeches who had nearly finished unloading a wagon of corn into the barn ready for early thrashing; the scanty dairy of cows being tethered for milking and leaving one half of the shed in brown emptiness; the very pigs and white ducks seeming to wander about the uneven neglected yard as if in low spirits from feeding on a too meagre quality of rinsings,—all these objects under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all paused over as a "charming bit," touching other sensibilities than
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As they exchanged a few words beside the well in the silent court, or lingered in the garden for the sunset hour, sitting on a mossy seat saying to each other the infinite nothings of love, or mused in the silent calm which reigned between the house and the ramparts like that beneath the arches of a church, Charles comprehended the sanctity of love; for his great lady, his dear Annette, had taught him only its stormy troubles
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O I was wretched indeed! I fell to Weeping aloud, and would perhaps have collaps’d with my Arms about Lustre’s Neck, by the mossy Bank of some Stream (into which I might then have thrown myself, Ophelia-like), had not the Fear of being discover’d as a Woman by the Fact of my Weeping, discouraged me
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’Tis a Mossy Bank, a Thankless Mouth, a Mustard Pott, a Mutton Roast, a Needle Case, a Nether Eye (to Mr
