Dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America.
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Examples for "old man's beard "
Examples for "old man's beard "
1 I was glad that the dark hid the whiteness of the old man 's beard from my view.
2 Gidge takes part of the old man 's beard and uses it as a pillow to sleep on.
3 Then the youth seized the ax, split the anvil with one blow, and struck the old man 's beard in with it.
4 Then the youth took up an axe, and, splitting the anvil at one blow, wedged the old man 's beard in it.
5 The draftsman has not forgotten this detail: the old man 's beard spreads in a snowy avalanche over the apron and comes down to his knees.
1 Weeds waved from the crevices, and in places black moss splotched the otherwise bald stones.
2 His way lay through a wide tract of black moss , extending for miles on each side and before him.
3 On several occasions we found these birds on the highest summits where there was nothing but rocks covered with black moss .
4 Sometimes a kind of black moss grows upon them, and tiny bits of white lichen, giving together a curious tortoiseshell look.
5 The best soil for it appears to be a pure quartz sand, which in some places rests on black moss or mould.
1 It kills the long moss , but the green mold it does not seem to affect.
2 The huge double gate of Thonbec had stood open so long moss had grown on the hinges.
3 And taking a strand of the long moss he scraped the greenish gray outside off, leaving a black strand like a horse hair.
4 "That is Spanish moss, also called long moss , " explained Mr. Brown.
1 Above our heads the Spanish moss hung from the trees in beautiful drapery.
2 Festoons of Spanish moss , drooped like a mourning veil from bough to bough.
3 And to the delight of Will, the long streamers of Spanish moss hung everywhere.
4 I enclose a sprig of Spanish moss from a cypress-tree near the village jail.
5 The pool reflected up into some Spanish moss hanging from the closest oak limbs.
6 The trees hung low and lush, covered with Spanish moss .
7 Other more well-known plants in the family, besides tillandsia, include Spanish moss , and even pineapples.
8 The mansions still stand in antebellum grandeur, shaded by water oaks draped in Spanish moss .
9 The flashlight beams were partly obscured by dangling webs of Spanish moss from low branches.
10 Laramie picked a clump of Spanish moss off the tree branch above him before replying.
11 From the thorns, Spanish moss hung down like curtains.
12 Long rays of sun slant through Spanish moss , and giant shadows dance between the trees.
13 From the boughs overhead long streamers of gray Spanish moss waved and beckoned in the breeze.
14 Among the Natchez, the young girls played ball with a deer-skin ball stuffed with Spanish moss .
15 Tall trees, draped in Spanish moss , surrounded us.
16 He had a troubled background, a lot of Spanish moss and Garden of Good and Evil.
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Это словосочетание состоит из: Spanish moss в диалектах
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