The dowsing rod wasn't of fresh, shiny bronze, or of the green, patinaed sort, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

He could see a wrought-iron bench, patinaed with age, and could imagine Casanova on one knee, seducing the young woman who sat upon it, staring up at the night sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

The rain, when it came, was a friend because it helped hide him, but it was also an enemy because it made the patinaed copper tiles of the mansard roof treacherously slick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kaisho]

Green muslin curtains hung at the windows, green mosaics of shells and seaweed decorated the walls and floor, even the tub was painted green, and the fixtures were green-patinaed bronze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

Images of Junior's eyes like copper pennies, already patinaed; images of his widow who had known - because every cop's wife waits for it, fears it - why he had appeared at her front door in the grim light before dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

With its raw concrete patinaed by green mildew, rusting corrugated steel and neglected stretches of fence bent by fallen trees, Las Pozas feels like a Sleeping Beauty castle arrested in time before it was quite finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico] Reference

A part of him remembered other days here, sunlit stillness and gulls overhead, his foster parents, a house full of small dear objects; yes, and Kronborg Castle, red brick and slim towers, patinaed copper roofs above bright waters, why should he suddenly think of Kronborg?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

After Josiah's death, his successor, King Jehoiakim, immediately undid his reforms (the pull of that old goddess was pretty strong, obviously), and Miss Shell and Mr. Stick, patinaed now by brine and sandstorm and bonfire, were carted out of the boulder-strewn wilderness to be displayed in the Great Temple once again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinny Legs and All]

I created a grungy frame from heat patinaed copper, cut, shaped and pounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Sublime] Reference

Working mostly with steel, pieces range in finish from perfectly patinaed to shiny stainless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

With the exception of soft, patinaed vintage pieces, Larette finds most leather sofas lack warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

In 2007, Mike put out "Salvation in Lights," explaining his return to the church-patinaed truths of his boyhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: All Blogs] Reference

A glass tree branch, patinaed in rust, is suspended by and chained to its own glass vase with a fragile glass chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference

In 2003, Giordano and his wife moved to a million-dollar Pinecrest home surrounded by a cream-colored wall, a green patinaed gate, and 12-foot columns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference

But there is also such an elusive aura of perfected grunge in its cozy rowhouse bones, patinaed by generations of drinkers, that it could never be duplicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference

I can’t, and see no reason to, and don’t see that he deserves any reprieve for his many uglinesses, his many hurts and hamperings of others less privileged, for his creepy life of patinaed hate and smarmy, self-indulgent condescension.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Down . . . « Lean Left] Reference