rock-moss

His eyes were red as the leaf of the maple in autumn; his skin was green as the bosom of the meadow in spring; yellow hair, as coarse as rock-moss, fell over his shoulders; and his nose was turned up till it reached his forehead; his ears were scarce larger than a man's thumb-nail, and his mouth than the blade of a pipe.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

What, though he have several times slaughtered more musk-beef than he can eat, speared salmon to be devoured by the brown eagle, and gathered rock-moss to rot in the rain?

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

The rock-moss he gathered was always the sweetest; and the produce of his hunt, however old and tough, was, in her opinion, the youngest and tenderest.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

Chepewyan caught at a distance from his cabin; no rains to sweep the hills of ice into the vales where he gathered his rock-moss, or tear his fishing-nets and weirs from their place in the river.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

She had only to procure her own food, and this was the berries, and hips, and sorrel, and rock-moss, which, being found plentifully near her cave, were plucked with little trouble.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

A second tower I was imprisoned in, higher up than the first, -- a well, deep with veins of liquid soul, such as man nor patriarch hath ever builded, and I, a bit of rock-moss, unable to reach out to the light.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

Its chief vegetable substance is the moss, on which their deer feed; and a kind of rock-moss, which, in times of scarcity, preserves the lives of the na -

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