onychites

Updated: May 11, 2025

Not whilst He who holdeth the earth in the hollow of His hand hath me there too. Reaching out, once more, for the strong protective fibres that had so blessed me, I wandered forth with it into the land whose mural heights are onychites and mocha-stones of mossy mystery.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862