Etymology
Origin of lichenous
Example Sentences
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He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was struck by the queer little heads sticking up over the lichenous wall.
From The Wonderful Visit by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Have you ever, Sheila, in a dream, or just as one's thoughts go sometimes, seen that door?...its ruinous stone lintel carved into lichenous stone heads...stonily silent in the last thin sunlight, hanging in peace unlatched.
From The Return by De la Mare, Walter
With one arm he embraced a large stone flower-pot, leaning his head sideways against its hard and lichenous flanks in an attitude of trustful affection.
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
Her partner's young richness of tint against the flattened hues and rougher forms of her aged head had an effect something like that of a fine flower against a lichenous branch.
From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George
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