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Example sentences for "mouldered"

Lexicographically close words:
moujik; moujiks; mould; moulded; moulder; mouldering; moulders; mouldiness; moulding; mouldings
  1. The piano in Bezuquet's shop mouldered away under a green fungus, and the Spanish flies dried upon it, belly up.

  2. There's your virtuous, charitable world, that would exact penalty of an innocent child for the sin of a progenitor who was mouldered in his tomb before she was born.

  3. The state of preservation in which most fossils are, instead of having mouldered away, foreshadows immortality.

  4. My attention was called to the red collar of the upper portion of what had been a Turkish jacket, and gradually I made out the frame of the soldier, who had mouldered away, inside it.

  5. The men who had conquered a world, mouldered in the dust; and their children were contented to enjoy.

  6. The merchant dreams of loss and gain, And gold that never brings content; The student's a dull dream of pain, 'Midst mouldered books and hours misspent.

  7. Before the conclusion of another seven years, how probable is it that these hands will have mouldered into dust!

  8. Some of the Indians of Guiana bring food and drink to their dead so long as the flesh remains on the bones; when it has mouldered away, they conclude that the man himself has departed.

  9. Here mouldered the mortal remains of his predecessors, and here were to repose his bones when he, too, should be "gathered to his fathers.

  10. In the angle of the rivers, overlooking the flood, mouldered the remains of old Fort Du Quesne, blown up by the French when captured by the English.

  11. And I d'no as I thought of anybody or anything there in Venice so much as I did of John Ruskin, who give even the stuns of Venice a language that will go on speakin' long after the stuns have mouldered back into dust.

  12. Iron pillars and granite columns aginst which his weary head had leaned oft-times had all mouldered and decayed.

  13. He was offered some food, which he began to eat; but he had no sooner done so than he mouldered away.

  14. His look was like a skeleton; and as soon as he had tasted food he too mouldered away.

  15. The most important of all the castles in the middle marches of Wales was Ludlow, whose grand ruins, mouldered into beauty, stand upon the river Tame, near the western border of Shropshire.

  16. And there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds; While ever and anon there fall Huge heaps of hoary, mouldered wall.

  17. Sandwich lingers as it existed in the Plantagenet days, time having mouldered it into quaint condition.

  18. The evil is not dead, though they who wrought it have long mouldered in their forgotten graves.

  19. And thy sign-post is gone and mouldered already; and to the Jolly Angler has succeeded the Jolly Tar!

  20. If it had mouldered under me, surely, I should have been waked by the collapse.

  21. One may even dare to conjecture that the torn and half-mouldered slip of papyrus, upon which he gazes, may have been taken down from the lips of the immortal Chiun.

  22. Here then, mouldered the remains of that restless spirit, who seemed to have strayed to earth from another clime, from such a height did he draw his glorious conceptions.

  23. This sea, whose waves wash the feet of Naples, Constantinople and Alexandria, and break on the hoary shores where Troy and Tyre and Carthage have mouldered away!

  24. The dry bones in the valley of Askelon were as children skipping in the morning sun compared with the dusty death that mouldered and mouldered in this lonely locked-up room,--this catacomb of dead businesses.


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