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We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

He went on foot across the wilder recesses of the park, where slimy streams of green moisture, exuding from decayed holes caused by old amputations, ran down the bark of the oaks and elms, the rind below being coated with a lichenous wash as green as emerald.

The Woodlanders 2006

And all this time the lunar plants were growing around us, higher and denser and more entangled, every moment thicker and taller, spiked plants, green cactus masses, fungi, fleshy and lichenous things, strangest radiate and sinuous shapes.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

That chanced to be her pose, but indeed she was standing quite still, looking away towards the gray and lichenous shrubbery wall and, as I think now, listening.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

He's more interested in our lichen's lichenous parasites, and thinks they may be what is different or unusual on this site this winter.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

He was incredulous, then left the road and walked along a scarcely perceptible track to the left, and came in half a minute to an old lichenous stone wall.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

It was rugged and steep, grass growing mostly in pale tufts and tussocks between lichenous rocks, dwarf birch and willow scattered around.

Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

Within a time-worn earthen rampart loomed a triple ring of standing stones, perhaps seventy cubits wide, the tallest of them well-nigh three man-heights, slabs almost as huge joining them on top, gray, lichenous, weathered, powerful beyond his understanding.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

Within a time-worn earthen rampart loomed a triple ring of standing stones, perhaps seventy cubits wide, the tallest of them well-nigh three man-heights, slabs almost as huge joining them on top, gray, lichenous, weathered, powerful beyond his understanding.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988