Gone; moulderingin the dust; and their magnificence nourishes the worm.
It descends into the valley of dry bones, makes the mouldering skeletons living men, and leads them to Mount Zion with songs of everlasting joy.
When their moulderingbones had been sold wholesale and retail as precious relics, their very sepulchres and their shadows brought hosts of pilgrims to herd round their shrines.
He reached a sluggish stream, upon the shore of which, half-imbedded in sand and water, there was a mouldering log, which he chanced to know was hollow beneath.
The mouldering corpses of a Spaniard, his wife, and four children lay scattered around, all scalped.
He glanced at me as he spoke, and I realised that he was taking us by a path that would lead us away from the mouldering bones.
As the one most used to such things I snapped open my pocket-compass, took a line from the mouldering ruin that had once been the threshold of the hut, and proceeded to calmly measure off the requisite distance.
He had been brought by a friend to this mouldering house in a northern suburb, through an old garden to the room where Ambrose the recluse dozed and dreamed over his books.
The foul paper, from which all pattern or trace of a pattern had long vanished, subdued and penetrated with the grime of the evil street, was hanging in mouldering pennons from the wall.
There, it was said, still stood such moulderingremains of the wedding breakfast as the rats and mice had spared.
They had taken down half a dozen mouldering old posts, and set up new ones in their place--tall, clean, and shiny.
In the third he found a few mouldering bones ; and the fourth was totally empty.
A faint odour of the already mouldering year rose from the wet earth.
He showed them in the mouldering shed the foundation of the anvil, traced the probable shafting of the trip hammer, marked the location of the hearths.
A vulgar modernity coexisted with a shabby antiquity in the appointments; a mouldering wall showed its damp through the smart tastelessness of recent paper; the floor reeled under a combination of pseudo-aesthetic rugs.
We now came under the steeps by the sea-side, which were bold rocks, mouldering scars, or fresh with green grass.
We passed neither tree nor shrub for miles--I include the whole space from Glen Coe--yet we saw perpetually traces of a long decayed forest, pieces of black mouldering wood.
Scott's "Harp of the North, that moulderinglong hast hung," etc.
He stopped for a time to explore a little rustic church, that stood, in a careless mouldering dignity, in the centre of a small village.
Every inch of that soft chalk had been made up by the life and death, through millions of years, of tiny insects, swimming, dying, mouldering in the depths of some shapeless sea.
Shall mouldering page or fading scroll Outface the charter of the soul?
Rupert sat a little longer, smoking, and watching the stars creep along behind the shattered glass and the bent leads of the lofty windows; watching the fire fall together, and the strange shadows move mysteriously on the mouldering walls.
I am glad for her sake, poor soul, that my arms are mouldering away from about her, and that her friend is taking her to his.
The grave hillock and themouldering body are each a world of powers at work.
Christian, is it not because in this church those who once lay upon your heart and mine are mouldering into dust?
Revere said, walking into the cul-de-sac so carefully prepared for him, and stooping down and laying his finger on the mouldering keel.
The cracks and crannies, the gaping seams of the broken, mouldering sides, the evidences of decay, were hidden in the shadows cast by the soft splendor.
When the tempest howled around the old house, he could hear, in fancy, above its wild screaming the crashing of the timbers of the ship falling in shapeless ruins on the mouldering ways.
This rises into a steep and shattered stack of mouldering calcareous rock and stone, called Whitten-head.
The ancient masonry of Dunstaffnage is mouldering fast under time and neglect.
Where the lone Indian hastened, and wondering hushed His awe as he trod o'er the mouldering dust!
About ten miles from the frontier line there stand to-day the mouldering remains of the old castle of Gross-Hennersdorf.
She tried another--it was the rootless shed where the hawks had been once kept, as appeared from a perch or two not yet completely rotten, and a lure and jesses which were moulderingon the wall.
Can the light of His word illumine that cheerless hearth and sustain that bent figure shivering over its mouldering ashes?
No bitterer pang can be added to death than for the white bones of the dead to lie far away, washed by chill rains, or mouldering on a strange beach with the screaming seagulls above them.
O tearful, weak, pitiable race of men, dragged under earth andmouldering away!
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