How wonderful her moss-like growing huge hair... they probably soft and warm on touch. From Wordnik.com. [bad dreams good nightmares] Reference
There lay a bunch of beautiful white lilies, nestling in a mass of delicate moss-like green. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
I mounted the side of a brown hill covered with moss-like grass, and here and there heather. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
After awhile, the ground becomes covered with a moss-like growth that is difficult to remove and grows quickly. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Splinter by Adam Roberts] Reference
Every step and shelf of the rocks was cushioned with tricolored violets, white anemones, and a succulent, moss-like plant with a golden flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
The trees have a peculiar appearance, for their leaves are quite small and the trunks have a rough bark from which often hangs moss-like lichen, of which, by the way, cattle are very fond. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina from a British Point of View] Reference
Exposition enclosure along the south boundary line, where a wall fifty feet high and ten feet wide has been erected of a solid green moss-like growth, studded with myriads of tiny pink star-like blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
Most familiar are the land plants, first showing up as moss-like organisms. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The sand by the roadside was partially covered with bunches of a moss-like plant. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
I could smell the moss-like smell of bock beer; I even remembered conversations we had had. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The specimens were both white and red, resembling the moss-like sprigs often seen in museums. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
One presented a strapless steel blue silk dress with lush, moss-like material around the chest. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
You may have seen the small, moss-like plants called lichens covering rocks or the branches of old trees. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Pine and oak trees covered the heights, shrouded with long fringes and festoons of the moss-like Tillandsia. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
When repotting, use a medium of large bark and / or moss-like mix, which you can purchase at your local garden center. From Wordnik.com. Reference
So he stooped and stroked the moss-like leaves and said, "I do not want to hurt you, but you grow so thick I cannot help it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
The graceful and delicate beach-pea, too, grows abundantly amid the sand, and several strange, moss-like and succulent plants. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
Razia motioned to the shelf where an oversized book bound in green moss-like velvet lay, and two servant girls carried it to her. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
There was only the moss-like ground cover, and row upon row of the circular markers, wedged upright into the ground like two-foot-tall coins. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
White horse-chestnut blooms stand up in their stately way, lighting the path which is strewn with the green moss-like flowers fallen from the oaks. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
An ODNR employee discovered the algae at Cutler Lake a week ago, Strouse said, who saw the green moss-like mat on top of the lake and became curious. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
Full of dry honeycomb and peat moss-like scents, it's a fully evolved effort, with profound acidity matched to a dry woody character that speaks of its age. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
The beasts we hobbled, that they might move slowly about cropping the ochre moss-like vegetation which constitutes both food and drink for them on the march. From Wordnik.com. [The Gods of Mars] Reference
The second bottle added more minerals to the package, some nutty and floral hints and an unexpected wash of a rooty, moss-like tea and a flavor of green plum. From Wordnik.com. [Bigger Than Your Head] Reference
A pebbly path, a low flight of stone steps, a pause to leave your shoes without the sill, and you tread in the twilight of reverence upon the moss-like mats within. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
One of these is "Model Landscape #22" by Carin Mincemoyer, which is a three-dimensional work made of plastic packaging and bits of sand, pebbles and moss-like material. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Various alpine species belonging to quite distinct families form close moss-like cushions, gemmed with star-like flowers, or covered completely with a carpet of blossom. From Wordnik.com. [The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In] Reference
Deputies investigating a possible break-in at an Oregon rock museum were surprised when they stumbled upon a man concealed on the ground by a moss-like camouflage outfit. From Wordnik.com. [Dog bites 'Moss Man' outside Ore. rock museum - US News] Reference
(AP) - Deputies investigating a possible break-in at an Oregon rock museum were surprised when they stumbled upon a man concealed on the ground by a moss-like camouflage outfit. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
In some parts, as we travelled on, we found the oak trees and many of the pines completely draped with hanging festoons of the grey moss-like Tillandsia usneoides, or "old man's beard.". From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
He can see long strands of moss-like vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [The Magi'i Of Cyador]
The very sward is moss-like. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Prandial Philosophy] Reference
The four-leaved grass, or moss-like silk. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
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