He peered feverishly about among white bones, moldering garments, and rusted armor--and saw a faint glimmer of light on pointed steel.
The stern, thickly covered with the moldering encrustations of age, curved inward above the strange high poop, beneath which lay another cabin.
And closed for aye the sparkling glance, That dwelt on me sae kindly; And moldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly!
I tell you it has all been leveled into heaps of moldering rubbish--a thousand times more melancholy than any in France.
He gazed with mild repugnance at the squalid old houses, moldering behind their rusted iron balconies.
A ruined wall along the beach road, a pair of bleaching gate-posts, a moldering house foundation, showed that this had once been the site of a considerable estate.
I bore her down the moldering stairway, setting my foot on each crooked step with the firmness of one long familiar with the place.
And I dared not picture to myself the frightful things which a maniac might be capable of, shut up in such a place of death and darkness, with moldering corpses for companions!
The thought of that coffin moved me to a stern smile--that splintered, damp, and moldering wood must speak for itself by and by.
Ask for me in my native city and they will tell you I was one of the victims of the cholera that ravaged Naples in 1884, and that my mortal remains lie moldering in the funeral vault of my ancestors.
No moldering horror met my gaze--no blanched or decaying bones; no grinning skull mocked me with its hollow eye-sockets.
He dwelt at length upon the Rincón greatness of mediaeval days, and expressed the resolve sometime to delve into the family records which he knew must be hidden away in the moldering old city of Cartagena.
Untutored in the ways of men, without trace of sophistication or cant, unblemished as she moved among the soiled vessels about her, shining with celestial radiance in this unknown, moldering town so far from the world's beaten paths.
He found no stimulus to a search for his ancestral palace within the city, nor for a study of the Rincón records which lay moldering in the ancient city's archives.
The trees, crowned with exuberant vegetation, cast deep shadows, like those of the electric light, and only here and there did the arrowy moonbeams strike the ground, redolent with the odors of fresh earth and moldering leaves.
Sometimes, their bodies were found moldering in the woods.
Every mark of dilapidation increases this feeling; while these very marks (the fractures of the stone, the lichens of the moldering walls, and the graceful lines of the sinking roof) are all delightful in themselves.
Just beyond it, on the declivity of a hill, over the ridge of which the wall passes, crowning it with two moldering towers, lies the Protestant burying-ground.
From moldering manuscripts I learned of the Heart of Ahriman.
The jewel shimmered on the full, arching breast of a naked, living man who lay among the moldering bandages.
I lay unable to move, and then the hood fell away and a moldering skull grinned down at me.
All seems as desolate as those gray and molderingfanes of the discrowned gods, a solitude which only changes in character without deepening in intensity as the eye travels across the foam-fringed coast-line out on the sailless sea.
Not that the concentric curves of these moldering and moss-lined stone benches are without their appeal to the senses.
It is a garden of moldering shrines, a positive orchard of shattered porticoes and broken column-shafts, and huge pillars prostrate at the foot of their enormous plinths.
Farther afield the carriage-road up the Paillon valley leads direct to St. Andre through a romantic limestone gorge, which terminates at last in a grotto and natural bridge, overhung by the moldering remains of a most southern chateau.
Somebody back in these molderingshadows was playing the "Turkish Patrol," and playing it remarkably well.
Headnote 1] In thosemoldering tombs lie the ashes of the great Washington and his wife.
With proper care, this church might have been a place of worship a century longer, but like many other old churches, consecrated in the appreciating mind of the patriotic American, this edifice is moldering through neglect.
He seized it;--his hand shook at first, but the moldering canvas appeared to assist him in the effort.
But with such delight none are acquainted who know not what it is to be wedded to the soul of a beloved being, when the body which was once its vestment lies moldering in the earth.
A few steps forward, and he stood on a mound of moldering fragments, heaped over the pavement of what had been the hall.
The chief of ruined Ellerslie recognized his servant; and, with redoubled indignation, his followers heard the history of the moldering ashes before them.
They had built a small cabin, and for nearly thirty years it had stoodmoldering and forgotten.
Who will fall and be buried in the moldering ruins?
