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  • He sighed, replaced the watch, and then smoothed the bald patch on his head that gleamed like a brown pebble through his licheny hair.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • Our ship did not look smart; on the contrary it looked so untidy that it had a kind of mossy, woolly, licheny appearance.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

  • He was working through a small green tangle when something caught at his right foot and he was spun about so that he faced the opposite direction from the one in which he had been travelling, and went down upon his hands and knees, almost touching with his head a big licheny boulder, half buried in vines and grass.

    From Place to Place 1910

  • a livelier green; the crest of every bird she has burnished; every old wall between the four seas has received her mossy and licheny attentions; every nook in every forest she has sown with pale flowers, every marsh she has dashed with the fires of the marigold.

    Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

  • Caliban cracked thin ice, swam through a pipe in the asteroid’s soil, emerged into a long, narrow grotto, hung his netful of captives by a hook, slashed the net, set the three stunned and unresisting humans on three rocks ten feet above a bubbling pool, and stretched out on a licheny pipe overgrown with ferns.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

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