"Weathered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an exquisite grey-white, like lichen, or shaded hoar-frost, or dead silver; making the long-weathered stones it grew upon perfect with a finished modesty of paleness, as if the flower could be blue, and would not, for their sake. Laying its fine small leaves along in embroidery, like Anagallis tenella,—indescribable in the tender feebleness of it—afterwards as it grew, dropping the ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... Weathered and disintegrated rocks at the surface form soils and clays. No estimate is made of abundance, but obviously the total volume of these products is small as compared with the major classes of earth materials above noted, and in large part they may be ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... liquid ditty, And the blank lack of any charm Of landscape did no harm. The bald steep cutting, rigid, rough, And moon-lit, was enough For poetry of place: its weathered face Formed a convenient sheet whereon The visions of his ...
— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy
... give you a faint idea of what it is. It is Tudor you know— do you know what Tudor is, Mrs. Foxley—and all red brick, weathered all colors, and terraced, with lots of little windows and some big ones with stained glass in them, and urns on the terrace, and a rookery, and an old avenue of poplars, haunted too, and so on, and so on—there's no end ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison
... plight. Both commanders were sick, and, nearing the Line, on the 30th of July, Loaysa died. Four days after, Sebastian del Cano, who had escaped and weathered so many storms and dangers, expired also, leaving the command of the expedition ...
— The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea • George Collingridge
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