weather-stain

Every rent and chasm of time, every mouldering tint and weather-stain, is gone; the marble resumes its original whiteness; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams; the halls are illuminated with a softened radiance, we tread the enchanted palace of an Arabian tale.

Washington Irving 2004

Every rent and chasm of time; every mouldering tint and weather-stain is gone; the marble resumes its original whiteness; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams; the halls are illuminated with a softened radiance — we tread the enchanted palace of an Arabian tale!

The Alhambra 2002

Every rent and chasm of time; every mouldering tint and weather-stain is gone; the marble resumes its original whiteness; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams; the halls are illuminated with a softened radiance — we tread the enchanted palace of an Arabian tale!

The Alhambra 2002

A total abstinence from French novels and other light reading has left the purity and candor of her youth unscathed by their blight and weather-stain.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He was generally above the medium height, with a very decided stoop, as if in the habit of carrying burthens; and a long, high nose, with light blue eyes, and coarse, uneven hair, of a faded weather-stain color, gave his face the expression answering to this lathy outline.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

There was a barn, also aged, but in decent repair; and a ruinous shed, on the corner of which was nailed a boy's windmill, where it had probably been turning and clattering for years together, till now it was black with time and weather-stain.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

He couldn’t bear to think of himself living on any other spot than this, where he knew the sound of every gate door, and felt that the shape and color of every roof and weather-stain and broken hillock was good, because his growing senses had been fed on them.

IX. An Item Added to the Family Register. Book III—The Downfall 1917

The houses conform more or less to one type: a picturesque structure of colonial pattern, shingled to the ground, and stained or left to take a weather-stain of grayish brown, with cavernous verandas, and dormer - windowed roofs covering ten or twelve rooms.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

The houses conform more or less to one type: a picturesque structure of colonial pattern, shingled to the ground, and stained or left to take a weather-stain of grayish brown, with cavernous verandas, and dormer - windowed roofs covering ten or twelve rooms.

Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

Cook's day; yet there is not a weather-stain upon them, and the air is so dry and rarified that meat will keep fresh for three months.

The Hawaiian Archipelago 1867