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
There was no soil, and apparently never had been any, and the silvery-gray of the lichenous limestone blinded one with its glare in the sunlight.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by William James Stillman
These childish listeners, the straggling briers, the impenetrable thickets, the emerald gloaming, the marble stillness of the lofty lichenous tower: I took courage.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow.
From The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Walter De la Mare
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