moss-grown
2.Lastly, in the intervals of these roofs, of these spires, of these accidents of numberless edifices, which bent and writhed,and jagged in so eccentric a manner the extreme line of the University, one caught a glimpse, here and there, of a great expanse of moss-grown wall, a thick, round tower, a crenellated city gate, shadowing forth the fortress; it was the wall of Philip Augustus.
