There was a little clearing in the middle of the grove, which was floored with soft grass and moss covered rocks.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
No mishap overtook them, if they had stayed too late in the forest, and night came on, they laid themselves down near one another upon the moss, and slept until morning came, and their mother knew this and did not worry on their account.
" He made a bed of moss for the boy on which he slept, and the next morning the man took him to a well, and said, "Behold, the gold well is as bright and clear as crystal, thou shalt sit beside it, and take care that nothing falls into it, or it will be polluted.
The first was that in the forest, beneath the moss, lay the princess's pearls, a thousand in number, which must be picked up, and if by sunset one single pearl was missing, he who had looked for them would be turned into stone.
By good fortune the well was dry, and he fell upon soft moss without being hurt, but he could not get out again.
Then she sought for leaves and moss to make a soft bed for the roe.
The tailor's house was old and crooked; the roof was a hotbed for moss and houseleek.
" Here, in the time of the ancestral mother, had stood clipped hedges, but now only ferns and stinging nettles grew there, hiding the scattered fragments of old sculptured figures; the moss is growing in their eyes, but they can see as well as ever, which was more than the man could do who was in search of the Story, for he could not find that.
The roof, as far as one existed at all, was covered with moss and lichen.
The snail can now sit on the fence, and lick up moss and sunshine.
Then she brought the heaviest stones that she could carry, and laid them over the dead body, filling up the crevices with moss, till she thought she had fenced in his resting-place strongly enough.
I sat in the soft moss, and held my sausage skewer tight.
The carpet was thick and soft, like a covering of moss.
"What is to happen will happen," exclaimed the last, as he was shot out of the pea-shooter; and as he spoke he flew up against an old board under a garret-window, and fell into a little crevice, which was almost filled up with moss and soft earth.
How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-brown woods, where the fresh green moss still gleamed on the trunks of the trees, and from the south came the two first storks flying through the air, and on the back of each sat a lovely little child, a boy and a girl.
Go to the wild rosebushes, and when all the flowers have faded from them in autumn, and only the red hips remain, you will often find among them a large red-green moss flower; that's the Rose King.
Some large trees had been planted in little pots, so that they were cramped for room, and seemed about to burst the pot to pieces; while many weak little flowers were growing in rich soil, with moss all around them, carefully tended and cared for.
Large rocks, covered with moss of various hues, were lying about; the fresh spring water rippled forth with a peculiar sound.