grave-mould

She is just now giving me a deep delight: she is bringing back to my heart, in warm and beautiful life, realities — not mere empty ideas, but what were once realities, and that I long have thought decayed, dissolved, mixed in with grave-mould.

Villette 2003

The phantom, clad only in a short blue tunic quilted and silken but covered with grave-mould, rose slowly, as if pushed by a weak spiral spring.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

The phantom, clad only in a short blue tunic quilted and silken but covered with grave-mould, rose slowly, as if pushed by a weak spiral spring.

Can Such Things Be 1893

The officer was evidently wounded, though he did not seem to be bleeding, and the dust of battle had settled upon his blanched, stiffening face, like grave-mould upon a corpse.

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877

A drooping mood in her had been struck; he had a look like the winged lyric up in blue heavens: he raised the head of the young flower from its contemplation of grave-mould.

One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

A drooping mood in her had been struck; he had a look like the winged lyric up in blue heavens: he raised the head of the young flower from its contemplation of grave-mould.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

A drooping mood in her had been struck; he had a look like the winged lyric up in blue heavens: he raised the head of the young flower from its contemplation of grave-mould.

One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

She is just now giving me a deep delight: she is bringing back to my heart, in warm and beautiful life, realities -- not mere empty ideas, but what were once realities, and that I long have thought decayed, dissolved, mixed in with grave-mould.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

The general opinion was that the grim Doctor's awful profanity had blasted that tree, fostered, as it had been, on grave-mould of Puritans.

Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834