And it was inclosed by four neatly mortised lengths of fencing, Lichened and silvered by a half-century, it may be, of weather taken as it was sent.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
But then the firs had been little more than vigorous young saplings; they were tall, gnarled trees now, with Lichened trunks, and their lower boughs were dead.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Once, in Savernake Forest, where the yaffels laugh all day amid the great oak trees, and the beech avenues, with their Gothic foliations and Lichened trunks, are the finest in the world, a young, untried deerhound of ours slipped away unobserved and killed a hind "off his own bat."
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs