weatherworn
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My grandmother’s shot house was frequented by men hardened by the weatherworn elements of time, those tiny particles of memory that refuse erasure.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
Explore remnants of an old railway turntable and foundations for what used to hold hotels, a powerhouse, an ore-processing plant and weatherworn, ancient-looking wood buildings in various stages of collapse.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
Betsy and Andrew, who both grew up summering inshore nearby, shared an appreciation for Maine’s hardscrabble mid-coast working class, the same weatherworn fishermen and farm folk Andrew nearly obsessively depicted.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Milagros Ponce de León’s set, a dusty plain with weatherworn buildings, evokes both Cervantes-era Spain and contemporary Texas.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021
Nerving himself, he did it in one clean move, clamping his paws heavily into the weatherworn sandstone groove.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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