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  • Bonaventure Cemetery: Its moss-covered oaks and decrepit tombs provided the chills in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

    Southern Revival 2011

  • English football's governing body is an odd amalgam of hot young deal-chasers, conscientious administrators, moss-covered committee men and enemies within who sense, correctly, that power has long since left the building and relocated to the goliaths of the Premier League.

    Advance of the Premier League has rendered English football impotent | Paul Hayward 2011

  • Dub and Crank were standing on a moss-covered stone patio, staring at a lump in the leaves.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • The funny thing is, Jimmy Carter, I mean Barack Obama, is going to leave things in such shambles (think FDR), a cool moist moss-covered rock would be able to beat him in 2012.

    Poll: Iowa Republicans like Palin, but have doubts 2009

  • Its wood had a greenish tinge, like that of the moss-covered trees.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • Its wood had a greenish tinge, like that of the moss-covered trees.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • So the trip isn't totally kitsch, you can continue up to the Hoh Rain Forest for a hike among moss-covered giant cedars and spruce.

    Port Townsend, Washington Larry M. Greenberg 2011

  • The sun is intense, and as the raft glides under towering bamboo arches, past fern-shrouded groves and over rippling shoals my rafter points out a narrow passageway of moss-covered stone.

    In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica Sarfraz Manzoor 2010

  • Up ahead a short gravel walkway leads to a whitewashed wooden ramp, then I discern a small moss-covered house camouflaged by fir trees and confined within an old chain-link fence.

    Dakota Roger Weaver 2011

  • Dub and Crank were standing on a moss-covered stone patio, staring at a lump in the leaves.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

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