It was little to the advantage of the Grindstone that it shared its entrance-way with a steamship company and a fire-insurance concern, and was roofed over by a dubious herd of lightweight loan brokers, and undermined by boot-blacking parlours, and barnacled with peanut and banana stands.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
How was it that these brown savages were free, and he barnacled to a slab-sided bark?
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
That is the kind of statement that lives for ever, and a fact barnacled to it has a good chance to share its immortality.
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories"
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009