uninhabited-looking

Updated: April 30, 2025

"I mean if this ever comes up as a matter of evidence, you know. But here we are!" What had seemed to be an overgrown mound rising like an island out of the dead level of the grassy sea now resolved itself into a collection of adobe walls, eaten and incrusted with shrubs and vines, that bore some resemblance to the usual uninhabited-looking exterior of a Spanish-American dwelling.

Bret Harte - On the Frontier

"I mean if this ever comes up as a matter of evidence, you know. But here we are!" What had seemed to be an overgrown mound rising like an island out of the dead level of the grassy sea now resolved itself into a collection of adobe walls, eaten and incrusted with shrubs and vines, that bore some resemblance to the usual uninhabited-looking exterior of a Spanish-American dwelling.

Bret Harte - Frontier Stories