Decaying

Examples

• Nature grows old, and shakes in her decaying limbs,--creation has become bankrupt! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Ages ago trees and bushes grew thick and fast, and the ground was always covered with a deep layer of decaying vegetable matter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Was that my child--that moveless decaying inanimation? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I venture to suggest that much of what is called corruption is the odor of a decaying political system done to death by an economic growth. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At last she gave up her spying attitude, closed the telescope, and turned to the decaying embers. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The decaying of wood and the rusting of metal are due to the action of air and moisture. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I do not yet know which is the best method of preserving the silo from decaying. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The decaying vegetable matter which covers the forest floor acts more or less as a sponge, and quickly absorbs falling rain and melting snow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Good housekeepers drop small bits of charcoal into vases of flowers to prevent discoloration of the water and the odor of decaying stems. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• One evening, he was sitting, in utter dejection and prostration, by a few decaying brands, where his coarse supper was baking. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bones all twisted out of shape, great knots protruding from face and body, joints decaying and dropping away--horrible! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A great mass of energy seemed decaying up in that silent, hulking form. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Not until the late daylight made the window transparent, did this decaying statue move. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Decaying animal matter was often mixed with the vegetable mass. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It is due also to the presence on the ground of decaying leaves and twigs, or humus. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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