misgrown

In passing through Stobrod it had been pressed into a shape like a mushroom, the cap fluted and split and misgrown.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

In passing through Stobrod it had been pressed into a shape like a mushroom, the cap fluted and split and misgrown.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

Unlike our household pest, whose home is the kitchen, and whose bashfulness loves secrecy and the dark hours, this misgrown flat species, of which it would take two to make a medium-sized English specimen, has gained in impudence what it has lost in size, fearing neither light nor noise, neither man nor beast.

The Enemies of Books 1888

Unlike our household pest, whose home is the kitchen, and whose bashfulness loves secrecy and the dark hours, this misgrown flat species, of which it would take two to make a medium-sized English specimen, has gained in impudence what it has lost in size, fearing neither light nor noise, neither man nor beast.

The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857

As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see. but pity there was none.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale’s eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002