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How to use moss-grown in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word moss-grown? Here are some examples.

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There must be some place for warmth in this cold world, she thought, and watched the fireflies dance around a moss-grown statue of Hercules.
It had the usual country-schoolhouse form, with a moss-grown roof and blank window spaces, whence both glass and sash had long departed.
In order to clean and aerate felted and moss-grown lawn, cutting, scarifying and picking up can all be done in one operation.
Here and there, beneath a root or near a venerable moss-grown trunk, we find some sign of our man, as if he were leading us on a trail.
The house was now moss-grown, crumbling to decay, and melancholy.
Equally, its speedy progress lets me forget my worries over scruffy flowerbeds and moss-grown lawns.
To enhance the building a little bit I added a line of brown ink between each row of tiles, a brown wash to all wood parts, and painted the moss-grown areas of the roof.
Because the girl's thoughts were somewhere else, she was holding so still that even the lizard sat motionless on the moss-grown rock, on which the girl lay half leaning, half stretched out on her stomach.
He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
Examples from Classical Literature
He stopped at last on the moss-grown flags of the garden-walk to look about him.
The mouldering and moss-grown base of one of its towers is all that now remains.
And then, issuing from the chase, he came upon a broad, moss-grown terrace.
The logs are moss-grown and black, but it is good for hundreds of years yet.
Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.
Everything is dark and damp and moss-grown, and very silent.
The grove is ancient looking, the trees are gnarled and moss-grown.
It was night when Jasper once more reached the moss-grown pales round the demesnes of the old Manor-house.
Mr. molines and his friend sat smoking on a moss-grown rock by the bank of the stream.
They were moss-grown, much dilapidated, and apparently of great age.
Suddenly rounding a pile of moss-grown rocks, they saw the turkey.
What the gardener called the gravel path was black earth, moss-grown.
Thence, swelling over the rim of moss-grown stones, the water stole away under the fence, through what we regret to call a gutter, rather than a channel.
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