“At the base of a low cliff the wind no longer blew, but snow fell heavily on lichenous rock.”

“One turns back to the still old house, and sees a grey and lichenous facade with a very finely arched entrance.”

“We stumbled away into it, taking cover under some lichenous bushes, while we looked for the highway.”

“Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound.”

“Against the peaceful landscape, the pale, decaying tints of the copses, the blue air of the horizon and the lichened stileboards, these staring vermilion words shone forth.”