smooth-worn

Intrigued, he batted the torn, dusty spiderwebs out of the way and cautiously crept down the narrow, smooth-worn passage.

Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

Intrigued, he batted the torn, dusty spiderwebs out of the way and cautiously crept down the narrow, smooth-worn passage.

Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

A long oblong of light from the kitchen illumined the smooth-worn surface of the path which led across bare rock to the descending steps of the slope.

Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965

The dark passages, smooth-worn rock walls made of the bodies of once-living fusorians had perhaps been dead when the Earth was still a boiling incandescent blob.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Sitting in one of the smooth-worn old armchairs that Uncle Tony always keeps handy, you can view the very heart of Green Valley's business life.

Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

While they plucked the shining pebbles, smooth-worn by the stormy main;

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

He seemed to be intent, and did not observe me; his woolly locks were whitened by age; his countenance was manly, though it bore the marks of sorrow; he was leaning on his smooth-worn staff, the companion of many years.

The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous

The wheel spun, clicked to a stop, and the rake of the croupier slicked his five dollars away across the smooth-worn top of the table.

Black Jack Max Brand 1918

She heard herself muttering, "Sorry I was so rude when you were so rude," and her chilly cheek discovered that the smooth-worn shoulder of his old blue coat was warm, and she wondered some more about the questions of waists and hands and ---- She was asleep.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

He clutched desperately to gain a hold on the smooth-worn steel plates, his face distorted by fear as he slid down to the fire.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915