moss-grown ideas about family life.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : moss-grown traditions.    From Dictionary.com. 

The crossings are formed of logs, often moss-grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

On the left, the houses gave way to the moss-grown pales of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Page 342: by a moss-grown wall. changed to by a moss-grown wall. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

"What did you see?" asked Billie, seating herself on a moss-grown log.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

Farther down, on the slope of the hill, was the well with its moss-grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference

On the two moss-grown pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

Branch from moss-grown fir-tree "a cornice wreathed with purple-starred tapestry".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

In the churchyard were a few scattered tombstones, moss-grown, and very much awry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

It was old, so old that the Greek cross at the head was moss-grown, broken and decayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

They found him sitting on a moss-grown stone, at the end of the village nearest the heath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

He was not where he had fallen: he was sitting on a rustic bench, beneath a moss-grown rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

It is a branch, gathered from that prettiest feature of mountain scenery, -- a moss-grown fir-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

Then we saw them turn back toward the group of thatched and moss-grown cottages which was all their world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

I climbed over some of the moss-grown stairs, though, and I kept discovering something I hadn't seen before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertha] Reference

On the other side the lane, seen between gaps in the old oaks and chestnuts that hung over the moss-grown pales of.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

To him the very mention of stone moss-grown walks, a sundial, roses, and green lawn conjures up a vision of delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

He led me towards the object lying on the old moss-grown tomb, and I could not summon the words to ask him who it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

Then arose the Angel of Sleep from his moss-grown couch, and strewed with a gentle hand the invisible grains of slumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference

He knew her favourite spots here and presently came on her huddled up on an old moss-grown stone seat, her head in her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

The moon rose at its full over the venerable wall, and scattered its bright cool light across the tall and moss-grown windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

They brought the canoe carefully in to the shore, landing on a sloping rock which was moss-grown above the mark of the last flood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference

And again he settled himself comfortably on the moss-grown stump, and drew Joan's head into an easier position against his shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference

Rabbi Jeiteles wiping his perspiring brow with a large red handkerchief, sat down upon a moss-grown log and bade the boy sit at his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

All local and practical topics were to be dropped, as soon as the moss-grown griffins who guarded the Garden of Forgetfulness were passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

It was the height of summer, when the carriage which bore the long absent owner to his ancestral home, neared the ancient moss-grown lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

Now, I don't know what a Castellonian Spring is, but that was the word he used, and that he was turned into a live-oak tree, old and moss-grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

He moved moodily after her, and stood looking down at the pathway, tracing haphazard figures on its moss-grown surface with the cane he carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

It is now long past its prime: many of the trees are moss-grown, and have dead and rotten branches intermixed among the green and fruitful ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

It was a ring, attached to a circular piece of wood, rusty and moss-grown, so that in appearance there was little to distinguish it from the undergrowth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

The street begins with an excellent imitation of Bishopsgate, one of the City gates, with moss-grown walls, and statues of Bishop William the Norman, and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference

In a minute or less he came upon a moss-grown way cut through the wood along the side of the mountain -- the old Cariboo Track men used before the days of the railway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

There was a brick walk leading from the front gate to the sitting-room entrance - red brick, all moss-grown, and with the tiny weeds and grasses pushing up between the bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Ago] Reference