At first you may be troubled at their sinful or unsavoury discourse, and make some resistance against the infection; but before you are aware, it may so cool and damp your graces, as will make your decay discernible to others.
The decay of natural heat is a sign of old age, and is accompanied with the decay of all the powers.
My dog's brain serves only my dog's purposes; but my brain labors at a knowledge which does nothing for me personally but make my body bitter to me and my decay and death a calamity.
Thin seams of coal formed in the Independence were once peaty deposits preserved by the presence of water from the decaywhich returns dead vegetable matter to the air.
The growth and decay of a long series of generations of plants have contributed certain organic constituents to the soil.
Each of these growths lengthened by its decay the life of the next.
The weakling, crowded and overshadowed, inevitably deepens the forest floor with its fallen trunk, adding to the humus that covers the lavas, and nourishing in its decay the more fortunate rival that has robbed it of life.
The phonetic character of their speech is equally as high as that of children in a like state of mental development; and seems to obey the same laws of phonetic growth, change, and decay as human speech.
If they are in a state of decay or atrophy, it argues that the animal must have been able to speak at some former period, and that now, in losing the power of speech it is gradually losing the organ.
After the departure of the Romans, Maryport must have been left to decay for over a thousand years, and it seemed even now to be a place that very few tourists visited.
It describes the clash of interests, the failure or success of ambition, the improvement or decay of nations; in short, all things good and evil in so far as they have been achieved and recorded.
One may with meaning distinguish between those who have been the friends and the enemies of society; and one may refer to the growth or decay of nations with some notion of what these terms signify.
Summer has seen decay Of roses white and red, And Love with wings outspread Speeds after yesterday.
Blue skies have changed to grey, And joy has sorrow wed: Summer has seen decay Of roses white and red.
In stir and push we have light and life, but in idleness, and superstitious clinging to fossilized ideas and bygones, we have demoralization, decay and death.
Then he realizes how foolish it is to be vain; thinks of the instability of wealth and power, and the certain decay of all earthly greatness.
The decay was gradual, but it was impending; and when the end came, her battle of life would begin.
Even the palaces, though now ruined and roofless, have the appearance of being yet perfect, and stand out of the foliage as ifdecay and the spoiler had not touched them.
Decay has long been at work upon it, yet it is still weather-proof.
Still, it has stood there so long, and yet bears no sign of hostile action directed against it by the warlike Sioux, that it seems safe to reckon it will continue to stand there in peace until decay finishes it off.
It is not a mere military reputation that is at stake, not the decay of a generation's commerce, not the determination of this or that party to power.
Day by day the fixed battlements recede and decay before their volatile opponent.
The wire grass was already yellowing on the Tasajara plains with the dusty decay of the long, dry summer when Dr.
In the dry atmosphere the decay of vegetation was too rapid for the slow hectic which overtakes an Eastern landscape, or else Nature was too practical for such thin disguises.
Habit and imprudence may doubtless aggravate the evil, just as exercise may enlarge a member of the body; but it is nature which sows the seeds of decay in her own productions.
But the economic decay and consequent loss of political influence among both imperial and territorial towns must be chiefly ascribed to inner causes.
He promised that we should one and all be freed from the great law of time; and that as we are this day parents and children, so we should continue forever--while vicissitude and decay must still have sway in the great world at large.
However, the removal of a number of pastors resulted in the decay of the church life in this field.
My heart weeps over the awful decayof Christendom.
After a week's stay in Boston, Bartley was able to assume the feelings of a native who sees his city falling into decay through the rapacity of its landladies.
He wondered a little at his own amiability; but with the decay of whatever was right-principled in him, he was aware of growing more and more incapable of indignation.
Well, there's some interest in that, just now, on account of this talk about the decay of our shipbuilding interests.
Fallen trees and foliage decay so quickly that the layer of forest mold is exceedingly thin and the little that is incorporated in the soil is confined to a shallow surface layer.
Fig tree formerly attached to a host but now left standing on its stilt-like aërial roots owing to the decay of the host.
Conversely, too, the great story of the rise and decay of the Roman dominion cannot be properly understood without following out the religious history of this people--their religious experience, as I prefer to call it.
This document dates from the days of the decay of the Roman religion, and is, of course, modernised by Livy; but it may give an idea of what is meant by writers who speak of an element of bargain or covenant in these vota.
I do not propose to follow further the downfall of the old Roman ideas about the objects of worship, or the neglect and decay of the ius divinum.
That it did to some extent perform this service I have already pointed out;[467] and it is a remarkable fact that the decay of the State religion was coincident, in the last two centuries B.
The decay of the one reflects that of the other; the failure to trust the di indigetes, the constant desire to try new and foreign manifestations of divine power, were sure signs that the State was passing into a new phase.
To prepare and transport fruits in their natural state to far distant points, while preserving them from decay for long times, is, in the large way demanded by the world's great appetites, altogether a success of modern invention.
A time of innovation and of obstruction, of corruption and of regeneration, of decay and of renaissance, all at once.
The decay of the cloister, though thus on the one hand into and with the school, may also take place within itself, since imagination and ideal may be evil, and theory false.
Hence, then, it is that for the arrest and the decayof cities we have no need to go for our examples to the ancient East.
I am not prepared to follow from the history of the Abbey the causes of such restorations; but it is certain that rebuildings of portions of the church occurred from time to time, and that violence or decay was the cause.
