Entering the darker places: The lodge-gates in The Hound of the Baskervilles

The next fragment is much easier.

This fragment has a simple structure:

…with weather-bitten pillars on either side…

…preposition quality thing place…

The phrase weather-bitten is quintessentially gothic: harsh weather, wild animals, harm and danger. Consider the effect if Doyle had said weather-worn, which means almost the same thing but misses the dangerous-animal vibe that weather-bitten has.

Let’s write some fragments that use the same structure, and try to come up with some gothic-sounding qualities.

…preposition quality thing place…

For the last example I’m going to try and come up with a compound adjective like weather-bitten. (It’s hard to come up with something as spot-on as that, but I’ll try.)