tumbled-down

• “From the shore small boats reach, depart, return the never-leavers tie nets of dried seaweed weighted with tumbled-down stones instruct young fingers through difficult knots guiding, scraping some young fingers”

  Simon & Schuster: The Best American Poetry 2010

• “A tumbled-down shack made of weathered boards squatted near the edge of the clearing.”

  Simon & Schuster: NEVER WAVE GOODBYE

• “Walking down the street the other day, I saw a shabby little doll on some half tumbled-down steps and a little girl five or six years of age with a worn-out broom, energetically sweeping the ground.”

  Home in the Humblest of Places

• “Not only that, they could also run along the sides of the tunnel as well as the ceiling, evading the tumbled-down wreckage.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hellgate London Covenant

• “But moviegoers are much more apt to recall tumbled-down images of Detroit, a city that has lost about half its population over the past half-century.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Detroit as Dream Factory

• “It is a ridiculous, tumbled-down old barn, isnt it? he said.”

  Simon & Schuster: The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House

• “I would jump over the tumbled-down wall at the back of the property, that couldn't be seen from the street.”

  The Shadow of the Wind

• “So the chamberlain stood on a tumbled-down wall with a trio of scribes below him, totting up the people as they trudged by.”

  Nemesis

• “Greven leaped to his feet amid the tumbled-down wreckage.”

  Nemesis

• “As they came to the corner of the wall, they saw the tumbled-down ruins of a church, built of stone and adobe.”

  The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot

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