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Significados de moss-grown em inglês

(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.

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Examples for "mossy"
Examples for "mossy"
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Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
East of the sun
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The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
Hunters Out of Space
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A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
A Man Four-Square
4
The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
5
From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shake...
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The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
The Guardian
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However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy, forward-based Sharks.
News.com.au
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They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
The Irish Times
4
The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
Wired
5
He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy-notwith truth.
The Firefly of France
1
But his scheme received no encouragement from the old-fogyish authorities.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
2
Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co. as 'old fogyish!'
Scottish sketches
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But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
Wired
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Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
Breeder
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Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
Dead as a doornail
4
I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
The Guardian
5
Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
Crown of Slaves
Uso de moss-grown em inglês
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It breeds about Derali, Bairamghati, and Gangaotri, in the large moss-grown deodars.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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The stream was perhaps eight feet across, spanned by a moss-grown footbridge.
Night Shift
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I have a nice garden but it is untidy, moss-grown- adilettantegarden.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
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Soon he was gliding along the sides of the moss-grown walls.
The Puppet Crown
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On the two moss-grown pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.
A Love Story
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Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.
Chanticleer / A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family
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And then, issuing from the chase, he came upon a broad, moss-grown terrace.
Under the Redwoods
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He no longer wore the gray, moss-grown stone attire, but white, glittering silver.
Invisible Links
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Fastening his horse to the moss-grown paling, Algernon proceeded to knock at the door.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
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Holland is so essentially a tidy country that nothing old or moss-grown is tolerated.
Roden's Corner
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When Christian left the drawing-room he walked quickly down the moss-grown path to the moat.
The Slave of the Lamp
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He leaned up against the moss-grown wall, looking back into the darkness of the lane.
The Golden Scorpion
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Vigfusson sat down on the moss-grown rock and pondered.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
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Or bow my head on moss-grown rocks to sleep.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2
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Go to a lone house at Lambeth, with moss-grown steps down to the water's edge.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
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The moon was casting a ghastly light over the great moss-grown stone and the deserted wolds.
A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...