sea-moss

Other fishes feed habitually on mud or sea-weed or sea-moss or the so-called stalk-weed or growing plants; as for instance, the phycis, the goby, and the rock-fish; and, by the way, the only meat that the phycis will touch is that of prawns.

The History of Animals 2002

The murex lives for about fifty days after capture; during this period they feed off one another, as there grows on the shell a kind of sea-weed or sea-moss; if any food is thrown to them during this period, it is said to be done not to keep them alive, but to make them weigh more.

The History of Animals 2002

"No, indeed, Mrs. Davitt, I did not forget you: but you won't get your farina after all; for I met some poor men in distress, and I handed over all the sea-moss to them."

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

Here is some sea-moss which I was taking to an old woman who lives a little further down the road.

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

Father, mother, brothers, sisters, weep for me no longer, for I am going to live beneath the sea, in the lovely grottos, on a couch of sea-moss. '

Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

Japanese love of beauty has drawn from water, earth, and air; delicate infusions of sea-moss, roots, and leaves, saucers of warm earth ground to

The Dragon Painter Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Trafford had heard him recite; bits of paper, with sums and solutions traced thereon; copies of the fine and feathery sea-moss, which it was the boy's delight to gather, with odd pebbles and shells, met his gaze on either hand.

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

She is a Greek girl from Malamocco, [52: 2] fourteen years old at most, "white and quiet as an apparition," with "hair like sea-moss"; her name is Phene, which, as Lutwyche explains, means sea-eagle ....

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

As they neared the wooden gateway it was suddenly flung open, and out marched a procession of masquers, headed by Neptune in full costume of shell-fringed robe, diadem, trident, and garlands of kelp and sea-moss, attended by tritons grotesquely attired, and fauns, reinforced by a growing audience of Indians, squaws and papooses.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

There, on beds of sea-moss, they lie, and the rainbow is dull beside them.

Nautilus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896