She found a moccasin - flower beside a lichen-covered log. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
The gorillas easily climbed a lichen-covered slope of rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Gorillas: Discovery Channel: February 2008] Reference
The canoe screeches through black spruce trees and lichen-covered boulders. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth] Reference
Sweat dripped off his face onto the lichen-covered brick sidewalk in front of his town house. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
I take a breath and step out onto the first huge uneven rocks warmed from the day, lichen-covered. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Clinton: Summer Solace] Reference
The lichen-covered rocks we brought back in the car ended up in the yard framing native flowering plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog of the Marriage] Reference
The treatment of the surface is reminiscent of lichen-covered stones or the darting glow of a dying ember. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Edens Edge] Reference
He seemed to have forgotten that anyone else existed, as he focused on the lichen-covered stone before him. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
They went through the lych-gate into the churchyard proper and picked their way round the lichen-covered headstones. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming of the Bones] Reference
The nest was built back of the old gray, lichen-covered fence, just above the brook where the hazels and alders grow. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
"Give it up," returned the other, turning his back on the strange cabin with its green roof and lichen-covered walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island] Reference
Grant's and Shelley's footsteps echoed hollowly on the cracked, lichen-covered sidewalk as they approached the couple. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss Remembered]
Crossing the river at Pont Pant-mawr, I took the track up into the lichen-covered, deciduous woodland of Coed Tyllwyd. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Aberystwyth] Reference
Architectural salvage yards are great places to find chipped, lichen-covered statues, urns or stone benches, but why stop there?. From Wordnik.com. [Homes: Big ideas for small backyards] Reference
And it was only a little way, after all, before he would come upon the strange cabin with the green roof and lichen-covered side logs. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island] Reference
He led them to an old lichen-covered bench where they sat facing out over the garden to the hills beyond before he picked up his story. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
The trees, the shrubs, the patches of flowers, the three ponds, the strategically placed lichen-covered rocks ... they were all perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The New Year festival, Shogatsu, had come and gone: white-flower buds gleamed like pearls on the lichen-covered, twisted limbs of the old. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
I am sitting on a lichen-covered rock just off the Columbine Trail, in the company of four great ponderosa pines and a younger stand of aspens. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
And there amongst them a delicate blossom, half crushed by the superincumbent weight of moss, the fallen leaves of last year, and tiny, lichen-covered twigs. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.] Reference
Hadria gazed incredulously at the familiar scene, as they approached the back of the house, with its round tower and its confusion of picturesque, lichen-covered roofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
A hundred varieties of trees and shrubs grow out of the grey lichen-covered rocks — it seems barbarous that the paddles of a steamer should disturb their delicate shadows. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
They carried long ladders which they propped against both sides of the building, reaching all the way up to the ancient fan-shaped tiles of the eaves, lichen-covered, brittle. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Weybridge house, and even more unlike lichen-covered Tarn Regis. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
Deliberately he moved towards the fallen tree-trunk where the lichen-covered cache of their token lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Unaga] Reference
Clumsy gray iguanas and long-tailed lizards of a brilliant green rushed up the trunks of lichen-covered trees. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines] Reference
Beside the other bones lay innumerable temple-bones of the seal, for the most part fresh and not lichen-covered. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Hallam was at the cemetery gate, resting sadly against the lichen-covered stone post, and waiting for her return. From Wordnik.com. [Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life] Reference
The pewee I had noted from the building of her beautiful lichen-covered cradle in the crotch of a wild-cherry tree. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
Lady Holme fetched a cloak, and went down the dark stone staircase between the lichen-covered walls to the tall iron gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
The lichen-covered roof of the homestead had been repaired, and the appearance of the place bespoke prosperity and comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
They had arrived at a lookout point, where a lichen-covered summerhouse stood, protected on the steeper side by a low stone wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
Indeed, the nest of this bird looks precisely like a large, lichen-covered, cup-shaped excrescence of the limb upon which it is placed. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
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