weedgrown

He rinsed the dishes and left them to drain and stood looking out the window at the little weedgrown yard.

No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

But the main canal from Zaandam and Amsterdam was hopelessly jammed with craft, and we were glad of a chance opening that enabled us to get out of the main column and lie up in a kind of little harbour very much neglected and weedgrown before a deserted house.

The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

The gate stood ajar, and I went in – not certainly expecting to find the "God's Acre" of this wealthy commune a mere weedgrown wilderness.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

The water looked clean and pure, but not particularly transparent, though enough so to show us that the bottom is very much weedgrown; and I was told that the weed is an

Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea.

Ulysses 2003

Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911