lichen-incrusted

Updated: May 13, 2025

It seemed to me a desecration that Hilda should live in such an unfinished land Hilda, whom I imagined as moving by nature through broad English parks, with Elizabethan cottages and immemorial oaks Hilda, whose proper atmosphere seemed to be one of coffee-coloured laces, ivy-clad abbeys, lichen-incrusted walls all that is beautiful and gracious in time-honoured civilisations.

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose