And weed-grown fragments crown thy desecrated aisle. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
The entrance to the tunnel was weed-grown and neglected. From Wordnik.com. [Five Go Off To Camp]
Water pooled there, forming a small, dirty, weed-grown pond. From Wordnik.com. [A World Out of Time]
D'Alembord turned and paced the weed-grown path towards Sharpe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
He hitched his horse to a fig-tree in the weed-grown outer precinct. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Betty flashed her lantern, and in its rays a man came up the weed-grown path. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley] Reference
He was standing on the weed-grown paves of the ruined courtyard of Castle Greyhawk. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
Up through the weed-grown yard they went, greeted and beckoned by the odours of Mary. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
For a full hour Janet trod the weed-grown walks with clasped hands and saddened eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
She frowned, glancing at the weed-grown churchyard and the crumbling building beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives] Reference
The garden, no longer the choice home of choice flowers, was weed-grown and neglected. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
Then Willis was gone, hurrying across the dry weed-grown lot toward the side entrance of the market. From Wordnik.com. [The Machineries of Joy]
The wide, weed-grown fields around them were otherwise empty; not even sheep cared to graze this near a Gate. From Wordnik.com. [Fiddler Fair]
They ducked into an alleyway and down the weed-grown stairs of what had been a service entrance for a private flat. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
Mrs. Bradley sped down the weed-grown drive and ran for dear life along the lane in the direction the others had taken. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Druids]
On one side of the cottage was a weed-grown garden, and some fine specimens of taro as well as wild potatoes were in evidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
He stood in the road, undecided, and fairly stared at the man, who had left the porch, and was walking down the weed-grown path. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference
All around, scattered far into that shallow, lovely sea, far up into the weed-grown hills, were the remnants of a once tremendous city. From Wordnik.com. [The Weapon Shops of Isher]
Just then he was wandering about the weed-grown lawns of his father's house, which looked more desolate than ever in the light of the full moon. From Wordnik.com. [Beth Woodburn] Reference
On the east side is a line of beautiful arches, under one of which is the entrance to the chapter-house, a weed-grown solitude of deadly silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828] Reference
The girl looked around the dim, weed-grown garden, its bushes blots of deeper shadow upon the darkness, its blossoms vaguely conjectured by their odour. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Half-heeding his words I flung him aside with a fierce exclamation, and, as I raced across the weed-grown plain, I heard the sounds of his lumbering flight. From Wordnik.com. [Wings in the Night]
The highway he had followed west toward Chicago stretched back the way he had come and ahead the way he must go, cracked and weed-grown and littered with debris. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
They climbed the steps from the basement to the weed-grown streets of the ancient and dead city as the bloated orange primary sun was descending over the surrounding forest. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
The weed-grown bed of Grass River was swept as by a prairie fire. From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
"It was an ugly, weed-grown and abandoned lot where people littered.". From Wordnik.com. [The Times-Journal: News] Reference
Once more they issued out on to the weed-grown platform of red tiles. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
It was a desert, weed-grown waste, littered thickly with stones the size of a man's fist. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
Jolting over the shell-pitted road, the car wound slowly through unploughed weed-grown fields. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference
The weed-grown garden was full of ripe tomatoes, and I ate them ravenously, though I had never liked them before. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Stranger] Reference
Walking slowly and on tiptoe, I picked my way through the weed-grown garden, and peered through the open doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Cloomber] Reference
She made no further objections and together we stumbled through the wet grass and over Sylvanus's weed-grown flower beds. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
There was a weed-grown, marshy pool, a desolate, dismal landscape, that of itself inspired thoughts of ill deeds and terror. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
The river was marshy, weed-grown and brown; but I gulped down a drink and felt breath returning and the labored pulse easing. From Wordnik.com. [Lords of the North] Reference
When I next arrived in Clarence it was just as sound asleep and its streets as weed-grown as ever, although the cafe was open. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
I stood still for a few moments, and then walked up the weed-grown path, and hammered on the front door with the brass knocker. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Hoppergrass] Reference
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