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. ❋ Unknown (2002)
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. ❋ Unknown (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." ❋ Maud Wilder Goodwin (N/A)
Here is some sea-moss which I was taking to an old woman who lives a little further down the road. ❋ Maud Wilder Goodwin (N/A)
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. ❋ Glance Gaylord (N/A)
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. ' ❋ R. Eivind (N/A)
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 ❋ Mary McNeil Fenollosa (N/A)
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 .... ❋ Ethel Colburn Mayne (N/A)
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. ❋ L. Lamprey (1910)
There, on beds of sea-moss, they lie, and the rainbow is dull beside them. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)
Truly they were a strange contrast: the delicate, glowing, velvet-clad doll, and the battered old wooden image, with eyes of snail-shells and hair of brown sea-moss. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)
Mrs. Thaxter sent Una a necklace of native shells with a gold and coral clasp, Julian a plume made of white owl feathers, and Rosebud a most exquisite wreath of sea-moss upon a card. ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)
Lelepua, arrow flight, p. 88. lepo ula, red earth, of which the body of the first man was made, p. 16. lilo ai kona ola a make iho la, p. 55. limu, sea-moss, p. 242. ❋ Unknown (1887)
When the oopu was placed in a large calabash with water, it was carefully tended and fed with sea-moss for some time, but one day in seeing to this duty the guardian of the chieftainess, on reaching the calabash, was startled to behold therein a human child, looking with its eyes. ❋ Unknown (1887)
But he did not return to the house of his friend, for he met a young woman gathering _limu_ (sea-moss) and fishing for crabs. ❋ Unknown (1887)
"To-day I name this stone Ku-a-lanakila, for I have triumphed over my enemies; and I hereby declare that all fishes, crabs, and sea-moss shall return again in plenty throughout the seas of Hana, as in the days when my parents were living in the flesh at Lehoula." ❋ Unknown (1887)
She led the way to the beach, and then turning to the left walked along the hard, white sand till they came to a bar of low rocks covered with sea-moss and lichen. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
Two fishers, on a time, two old men, together lay and slept; they had strown the dry sea-moss for a bed in their wattled cabin, and there they lay against the leafy wall. ❋ 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus (1878)
Sprinkle into it one level tablespoonful of sea-moss farina. ❋ Maria Parloa (1876)
It was half filled with sea-moss and feathery algae. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)