Nobody knew whether she was a gypsy or a decayed lady, she had such an air, and the children were half afraid of her, as a sort of witch.
He has the primal, vigorous instincts and impulses of the African savage, without any of the vices inherited from a civilization long ago decayed or developed in an unrestrained barbaric society.
Science has not yet decided which is the more fatal, decayed vegetables or unventilated rooms.
There were a few country-looking stores and shops, and on the shore three or four rather decayed and shaky wharves ran into the water, and a few schooners lay at anchor near them; and the usual decaying warehouses leaned about the docks.
Adjoining this square is an ancient cemetery, the surface of which has decayed in sympathy with the mouldering remains it covers, and is quite a model in this respect.
And ghosts of cities long decayed And ruined shrines of Fate Gather the paths, that Time hath made Foolish and desolate.
There was a zigzag fence in front, which was ill cared for, as the leaning comers anddecayed rails testified.
Suffering is to the growing soul what decayed matter is to the roots of a flower.
In placesdecayed trees had fallen across the way, and these the young wagoner sometimes had to cut apart and roll aside.
The negroes had used no judgment in placing the guano, having often put it on soil that did not need it--soil which could better be enriched by the till now unused loam of the marshes and the decayed matter of the forests.
There was nothing to stand upon but the bench, and so he took it away from the door and placed it directly under the decayed plank.
He could see but little, excepting boxes and barrels, some as decayed as was the floor.
It was not long before he came to one that was so far decayed that the end of the stick went through it with ease.
Dozens of small streams which we passed in the interior of Kamchatka, seventy miles from the seacoast, were so choked up with thousands of dying, dead, and decayed fish, that we could not use the water for any purpose whatever.
It was an ancient maple, one side long since blasted by lightning, and now decayed to the heart; while the other side yet put forth a green bravery of branch and leaf.
Presently he passed a huge, half-decayed windfall, thickly draped in shrubbery and vines.
Two years after your immurement in the cell, the food having been for some time untouched, the wall was opened, and upon the pallet was found a decayed carcase in mouldering, monkish vestments.
On the extreme verge of a high bank situated at the point of junction between Swanside Beck and the Ribble, stood an old, decayed oak.
Within the churchyard grew two fine old yew-trees, now long since decayed and gone, but then spreading their dark-green arms over the little turf-covered graves.
The Medical School was then in a very decayed condition, and I have made it what it is.
And that there is a real and practical connexion between loyalty and superstition, appears from the historical fact that the two feelings have nearly always flourished together and decayed together.
The consequences of this were still more obvious when, in the fourteenth century, the feudal system rapidly decayed in both countries.
The remains of the vessels, decayed through length of time, were still to be seen at Rouen in our days.
Then he stood at the bottom in front of the cellar-door, in the damp dark place where ashes gritted beneath his feet, and the foul smell of half-decayed vegetable refuse arose.
If we were to select for observation some partially decayed tree, we would find it also inhabited.
The so-called carrion flowers, pollinated by flies, are examples, the odor in this case being like decayed flesh.
This may be obtained from decayed vegetable or animal material in soil, from the bodies of dead plants and animals, or even from foods prepared for man.
Our previous experiment has shown that dirt on our hands, the mouth and teeth, decayed meat and vegetables, dirty money, the very hairs of our head are all carriers of bacteria.
This it does by covering the inorganic soil with humus or decayed organic material.
Decayed teeth are another handicap, cared for by this division.
Still others, called pitcher plants, use as food the decayed bodies of insects which fall into their cuplike leaves and die there.
Some of these unpleasant odors, if traced, are found to come from garbage pails, from piles of decaying fruit or vegetables, or from some butcher shop in which decayed meat is allowed to stand.
The soil exposed is a rich but thin loam of decayed leaves, in which tobacco grows with luxuriance.
Raleigh was the poor younger brother of a decayed but ancient family in Devonshire.
The moss, earth, decayed wood, and all else of the loose covering of rocks, quickly disappeared under their busy hands or rapidly-plied implements.
Closer scrutiny shows that the tussock grass radiates closely from a semi-decayed mass of leaf-sheaths, with the blades of grass shooting upwards and outwards as high as three or four feet.
It was a hospital fordecayed furniture, and it was in a worse condition when I got through with it.
I came upon a great tree that was dead and decayed about the roots, so that it needed but little cutting to make it fall, and that close to the water.
This tree was fully three fathoms in girth, and proportionately tall, straight, and fair, decayed only where the humors of the earth had attacked its base, light and very proper in all ways to my use.
The decayed state of the books showed that it was long since they had been opened, and on a further examination of the hut, it also was found to be in a very dilapidated condition.
Other trees of equal girth tapered more, and one decayed trunk, which lay on the ground, looked to be considerably thicker.
The wrecked Barang lay close by like a stranded, decayed monster on a desolate shore.
Gordon's mouth twitched at the corners, imparting to his face the expression of a partially decayed skull.
Many are found along the fence rows, hedges, ditch banks and in decayed logs and dead trees.
Ulcerative stomatitis is frequently met with in debilitated subjects with decayed teeth, and is specially liable to occur during the course of acute febrile diseases in which sordes accumulate about the teeth and gums.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decayed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
