weather-eaten

Billy went slowly, displaying extreme caution; but twice she saw him slip, the weather-eaten stone crumbling away in his hand and rattling beneath him into the cove.

CHAPTER VII 2010

These are most tiresome to deal with, getting worse the higher we go, and so rotten and weather-eaten are they that they crumble into dust and fragments under our feet.

Travels in West Africa 2003

These are piles of large squared stones of great antiquity, carefully built into long parallel forms, and now deeply weather-eaten.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

One of these was to a very archaic pile of rude masonry, deeply weather-eaten, at a ruined site called _Bait Saweer_, through green woods and arbutus-trees, glowing with scarlet berries; a place which had only recently been brought to my notice, and of which no European had any knowledge.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

Billy went slowly, displaying extreme caution; but twice she saw him slip, the weather-eaten stone crumbling away in his hand and rattling beneath him into the cove.

Chapter 7 1913

Thus he skipped confidently along jerking the old weather-eaten rawhide spasmodically till all of a sudden it gave way and Manstin fell headlong into the water.

Old Indian Legends 1876-1938 Zitkala-Sa 1907

These are most tiresome to deal with, getting worse the higher we go, and so rotten and weather-eaten are they that they crumble into dust and fragments under our feet.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

Endlessly helpful as they have been to us, and that, in a measure incalculable, through their very subjection to vanity, we are yet surely not in altogether and only helpful company, so long as the houses wherein we live have so many spots and stains in them which friendly death, it may be, can alone wash out -- so many weather-eaten and self-engendered sores which the builder's hand, pulling down and rebuilding of fresh and nobler material, alone can banish.

Hope of the Gospel George MacDonald 1864