weather-bleached

The salt flats took our breath away, weather-bleached and lunar along their crusted shores.

The Gin Closet Leslie Jamison 2010

He hesitated momentarily to view the weather-bleached, two storied, squared-log jail.

Historical Novel about...Pembina Trish Short Lewis 2006

While searching the beaches for firewood, Jaric found rigging among the tide wrack, and the weather-bleached timbers of ships.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

Whereupon he buys a couple of pairs of ancient weather-bleached horns from some colonist, and, nailing them up at impossible angles on the wall of his city-den, humbugs brother-Cockneys with tales of _vénerie_, and has for life his special legend, "How I shot my first deer in the Adirondacks."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

She became suddenly ashamed of her headlong flight, precipitated, as she now saw, by the first breath of afternoon breeze as it came in from the sea and fluttered a piece of weather-bleached canvas nailed over the grave-house door.

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

Immediately before him the Maypole stretched skyward, its top still ornamented with a few fluttering rags of weather-bleached ribbon, mementoes of the festivities that had ushered in the fast-fading summer.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

When the cool of the evening came they had sat and watched a wedding-party dance quadrilles on a lawn by the river, overhung by chestnut trees and severed by a clear and rapid channel, weedless as the air, from an island crowded by the weather-bleached ruins of a mill.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Presently they were drawing in to Cougar Point, with the weather-bleached buildings of Fyfe's camp showing now among the upspringing second-growth scrub.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

From a mound of earth upflung by a bursting shell a clenched fist, weather-bleached and pallid, seemed to threaten me; from another emerged a pair of crossed legs with knees up-drawn, very like the legs of one who dozes gently on a hot day.

Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

He picked out the soundest of the two-by-fours and made a framework which he boarded over with the best of the weather-bleached old siding.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912