What is "moss-grown"

Usage examples of "moss-grown".

One July as he was walking in a suburban street which ended in some dusty fields, Agaric heard groans coming from a moss-grown well that had been abandoned by the gardeners.

Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.

There is a fine flight of moss-grown stone steps down to the water, a pretty bridge, two superb stone torii, some handsome stone lanterns, and then a grand flight of steep stone steps up a hill-side dark with cryptomeria leads to a small Shinto shrine.

Situated on a level track of land at the crossing of three roads, its spacious front, rude and unpainted as it was, presented every appearance of an inn, but from its moss-grown chimneys no smoke arose, nor could I detect any sign of life in its shutterless windows and closed doors, across which shivered the dark shadow of the one gaunt and aged pine, that stood like a guard beside its tumbled-down porch.

Then there is a narrow belt of scrubby hardwood, moss-grown, and then large balsams, which crown the mountain.

This temple was the first symptom of Japanese religion that I remember to have seen since leaving Hakodate, and worshippers have long since ebbed away from its shady and moss-grown courts.

So we took a short ride to break in, and crawled through thick jungle to make the acquaintance of a venerable moss-grown idol, where had foregathered a German trader and a Norwegian captain to estimate the weight of said idol, and to speculate upon depreciation in value caused by sawing him in half.

This has been a most unsatisfactory excursion to me, but if it ends by giving into my hands the worst of all the slave captors, Ibn Asl, and that old hypocrite of a moss-grown villain, Abd Asl, his father, I shall feel that it is a success surpassing my wildest hopes.

The buildings, the fields, and the tumbled niin~of an old moss-grown stone tower hard beside the farmhouse spoke of generations of continual habitation.

Arkham is there, with its moss-grown gambrel roofs and the rocky rolling meadows behind it.

A moss-grown path led straight into the heart of a jungle where sweet olive, banana trees, and palms grew in a matted mass.

Below him lay the town of Willow Grove and here, all about him, their places marked by the canted, moss-grown stones, hemmed in by the pines and the ancient fence of iron, lay all those old ones who had been young when he had been a boy.