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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
The house was visible from the road; rather a nice old house, built of stone, with a lichened roof and friendly windows.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Some are colored like the sky, bright as bluebirds, others gray like the lichened rocks on which they hunt and bask.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
