maiden-hair

Velvety moss was everywhere, out of which grew maiden-hair and gold-back ferns.

Chapter VIII 2010

All was garmented by vegetation, from tiny maiden-hair and gold-back ferns to mighty redwood and Douglas spruces.

Chapter 18: The Shadow of Sonoma 2010

When a watery and ichorous discharge flows from the rectum, wash it out with burnt lees of wine, and water from myrtle, and having dried maiden-hair, pound and sift it, and apply as a cataplasm.

On Fistulae 2007

But everywhere the rocks, trees, and soil are covered and crowded with the most exquisite ferns and mosses, from the great tree-fern, whose bright fronds light up the darker foliage, to the lovely maiden-hair and graceful selaginellas which are mirrored in pools of sparkling water.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

She looked down at the milky odd little flowers among the brown maiden-hair at the lower tip of her body.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

And he took the leaves from her hair, kissing her damp hair, and the flowers from her breasts, and kissed her breasts, and kissed her navel, and kissed her maiden-hair, where he left the flowers threaded.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

‘Ay! That’s where to put forget-me-nots, in the man-hair, or the maiden-hair.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

He fastened fluffy young oak-sprays round her breasts, sticking in tufts of bluebells and campion: and in her navel he poised a pink campion flower, and in her maiden-hair were forget-me-nots and woodruff.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

And softly, he laid his hand over her mound of Venus, on the soft brown maiden-hair, and himself-sat still and naked on the bed, his face motionless in physical abstraction, almost like the face of Buddha.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

The narcissus, maiden-hair, and cypress were sacred to this divinity.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens