Rotten

Examples

• As Sissy said it, her eyes were attracted by another of those rotten fragments of fence upon the ground. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It's rotten, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Rotten Row means 'Route de Roi', or the king's way, but now it's more like a riding school than anything else. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The copper wires connecting the instruments to the switchboard were small, crystallized, and rotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There is a strange unwholesome smell upon the room, like mildewed corduroys, sweet apples wanting air, and rotten books. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The crews were rotten with scurvy; there was little water and that bad, and putrid biscuit to eat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You dirty, rotten bastard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If I were to meet that most unparalleled despot in the streets to-morrow, I would fell him like a rotten tree! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But it is very rotten. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Only by pruning out of these rotten branches can the tree remain healthy and grow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• By little and little he has been induced to trust in that rotten reed, and it communicates some portion of its rottenness to everything around him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me--impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It, and it alone, had the facilities for organizing _will_, for the need of which the empire was falling to pieces like a piece of rotten cloth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It's rotten not to be able to ski. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• His terse comment on my report was: 'Rotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was glad when they left, as I was cramped, and the potatoes were rotten that had been in the barrel and violently offensive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And that if you got pelted, interposed Mrs. Cadwallader, half the rotten eggs would mean hatred of your committee-man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Court, from that exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation, was all gone together. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Jesus Christ, I say it's rotten. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Sulphuretted hydrogen is, as is well known, the gas given off by rotten eggs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The army is still rotten with such as thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I say it's rotten. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The people had grown away from the Church because the Church was in the government and the government had always been rotten. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What rotten stuff is the snow and how beautiful it looks, Pilar said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You run about the brink, and run across it, in this uncertain light, on a few inches width of rotten wood,' said he. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Rotten drunkard! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Editor: Rochelle