moss-grown

How to use moss-grown in a sentence

• It was the home that had sheltered her orphan childhood; she had never slept a night from under its moss-grown roof.

  The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie

• Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.

  Chanticleer | Cornelius Mathews

• The view on one side was lost in the dark labyrinth of the moss-grown trunks of the forest.

  Wild Western Scenes | John Beauchamp Jones

• It was a little spot, screened by an old moss-grown paling, from the neighbouring garden on the one side and a lane on the other.

  Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Only a single column marks the confused heap of moss-grown ruins belonging to the temple of Hercules.

  The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts