weather-scarred

Obedient, but a little rebellious, Rose got up slowly, kissed the strong, weather-scarred cheek of the old man and turned toward the door of her room.

'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson

But the lines deepened on his weather-scarred face as he saw, gathering on the shelving beach, the wild, yellow-haired men of the island.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

The rapt, unconscious approval in those weather-scarred upturned faces made it quite obvious that they were with him in every word.

Letters from France 1923

Old was Sarah; weather-scarred, wave-battered, suffering from all the internal disorders to which machinery is prone; tipsy of gait, defiant of her own helm, a very hag of the high seas.

Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

But from the blunt bows to the weather-scarred stern, on which the name was faintly discernible, the hulk had an air about it, the air of something that has lived; it was eloquent of a varied and interesting past.

The Cruise of the Jasper B. Don Marquis 1907

Ugly frame houses straggled, weather-scarred and dilapidated, along one side of the unpaved street, while unsightly refuse dumps disfigured the slopes of the ravine in front.

The Intriguers Harold Bindloss 1905

A house of native stone built into and among weather-scarred rocks, one massive wing butting seaward, others nosing north and south among cedars and outcropping ledges -- the whole silver-grey mass of masonry reddening under a westering sun, every dormer, every leaded diamond pane aflame; this was Shotover as Siward first beheld it.

The Fighting Chance 1899

All Malbank was in the nave, a beaten and weather-scarred bundle of drabs packed in one corner under the great vaulting ribs.

The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892

a haze lay like a veil of gauze on the weather-scarred rocks.

The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895

Then he suddenly looked up, his weather-scarred face glowing a dull brick-red, and said, in a low voice, "This thing's too many fer me; kin any of ye do it?

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886