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So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
Fashionable homes across the country began sprouting lichened stone urns and zinc-top pedestal tables bearing sun-bleached patinas.
From Architectural Digest ● Mar. 18, 2015
The bridge was of gray stone, lichened, dappled with slow moisture where the fungus crept.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Lower still lay the Manor House—red brick with grey lichened mullions, a house in a thousand, Elizabethan—and from its twisted beautiful chimneys no smoke arose.
From Man and Maid by E. (Edith) Nesbit
He went slowly back to where his conductor sat on the lichened horse-block.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
