moss-grown
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Moss-grown walls adjoined this town, ivy clung here and there, a tangle of briars filled the embrasures and the shattered arches.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
Moss-grown and fretted with decay, it still emits a shrill whistle when I blow upon it.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil
In one green angle, just in reach, Between a willow-tree and beech, Moss-grown and leaky lies a boat The thick-grown lilies keep afloat.
From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.
Moss-grown, and venerable it stands, From the way-side dust and noise aloof, And the great elms stretch their sheltering hands To bless its grey old roof.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour
Steeples and Moss-grown towers. 1st Henry IV, act iii, sc.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
