 Between two large hunches, or tussucks, of the grey moss, there peered forth the good-humoured face of a man about thirty, lying flat upon the bog, while the moss nearly meeting above his head, and coming down in a flowing, pear-like shape on either side...  Paddiana: Or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present and Past - Page 91by Adam Blenkinsop, Sir William Henry Gregory - 1847Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...was not of a kind to diminish his wonder. Between two large bunches, or tussucks, of the grey moss, there peered forth the good-humoured face of a man...meeting above his head, and coming down in a flowing, pear -like shape on either side of his face, gave him much the appearance of wearing a judge's wig,... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...tussucks, of the gray moss, there peered forth the good-humored face of a man about thirty, lying Bat upon the bog, while the moss nearly meeting above his head, and coming down in a flowering, pear-like shape on either side of his face, gave him much the appearance of wearing a judge's... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...was not of a kind to diminish his wonder. Between two large hunches, or tussucks, of the grey moss, there peered forth the good-humoured face of a man...appearance of wearing a judge's wig, though the countenance showed nothing of the judge's gravity. — The first impulse of the shooter was to start up and seize... | |
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