grassgrown

Daylight could see that it had been a stiff struggle, and that wild nature showed fresh signs of winning -- chaparral that had invaded the clearings; patches and parts of patches of vineyard, unpruned, grassgrown, and abandoned; and everywhere old stake-and-rider fences vainly striving to remain intact.

Chapter IX 2010

Limitless calm lay on all sides among the monstrous shapes of grassgrown masonry and concrete.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

"What frightened you?" he asked, when they were standing on a grassgrown road that wound through a rank pasturage browsed on by a solitary black cow and turned the corner by a clump of cedars toward a large building, the presence of which was felt rather than seen beyond the trees.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

Without the signpost nobody would have suspected that the grassgrown track thus indicated led anywhere except over the top of the wold.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

"Aren't you ever coming?" the voice of Esther called across the field, and Mark hurried away to rejoin her on the grassgrown drive that led round the cedar grove to Rushbrooke Grange.

The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

Daylight could see that it had been a stiff struggle, and that wild nature showed fresh signs of winning -- chaparral that had invaded the clearings; patches and parts of patches of vineyard, unpruned, grassgrown, and abandoned; and everywhere old stake-and-rider fences vainly striving to remain intact.

Chapter IX 1910

All down an old road, and grassgrown he fared, when anon, looking along the way before him, he saw such an one as I shall tell you.

Aucassin and Nicolete Andrew Lang 1878

And the Chateau of Versailles stands ever since vacant, hushed still; its spacious Courts grassgrown, responsive to the hoe of the weeder.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

A solitary sentinel paced the grassgrown pavement before that door which had once been too narrow for the opposite streams of entering and departing courtiers.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

< i > wasted art, of pomp for pomp's sake, as where all the chapels bulge and all the windows, each one a separate constructional masterpiece, tower above almost grassgrown vacancy; with the full and immediate effect, of course, of reading us a lesson on the value of lawful pride.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879