On each floor there were three windows, the sashes of which, rotted by the dampness and shrunken by the heat of the sun, made it clear that the cold air must find an easy entrance into the rooms.
Jack Cockrell hesitated with a brave impulse to dive in search of him although he knew the bottom was a tangle of rotted trees, but just then Bill Saxby yelled to him to follow ashore with a paddle for a weapon.
Huzza, their feet touched the soft ooze and they fell over stumps and rotted trunks buried under the surface.
His body rotted away and his bones, of vast proportions, came tumbling down from time to time, and were shivered on the earth into countless fragments.
If large clumps are well established in 8-or 10-inch pots, they may be top-dressed with new soil containing rotted manure, and as growth increases liquid manure may be given twice a week until the flowers open.
Each fall it may have a mulch of rotted manure or of leafmold, which may be spaded under deeply in the spring; or the land may be spaded and left rough in the fall, which is a good practice when the soil has much clay.
A compost of four parts rotted turf to one of manure is laid on a sloping cement bottom outside the house, making a border 12 feet wide and 2 feet deep.
This land should be again well enriched with fine, well-rotted manure, to which may be added a liberal quantity of wood ashes.
The natural soil for melons is a light, sandy loam, well enriched with rotted manure, although good crops may be grown on land naturally heavy if the hills are specially prepared.
This is made from rotted sods, with decayed manure incorporated at the rate of about one part in four.
The soil should be very rich but fibrous--at least one third well-rotted manure will be none too much, mixed with equal parts of fibrous loam and sharp sand.
Put into the bottom of the bed about 2 inches of well-rotted manure and spade it into the soil.
Well-established plants may be repotted in good loam and well-rotted manure.
If not naturally fertile and friable, it should be made so by the application of well-rotted stable-manure or humus.
It is well to dig a hole 2 or 3 feet deep, and fill it with earth compounded of leafmold, well-rotted sod, and peat.
The soil for camellias should be fibrous and fertile, compounded ofrotted sod, leafmold, old cow manure, and sufficient sand for good drainage.
The soil should contain a good proportion of sand and be enriched with well-rotted manure.
When the flesh had all rotted away, the bones were taken out, placed in a box made of canes, and then deposited in the temple.
Copper pennies of Henry II are still found there;-- rotted out from the pouches of poor slain soldiers, who had not had time to buy liquor with them.
Monachism itself, so rich and fruitful once, now all rotted into peat.
The bags have rotted and fallen apart," he exclaimed, "and the money lies scattered all through the sand.
Now I think, Eric, that if the butterfly had dropped on land, it would soon have rotted and fallen apart.
He bore neither harness nor saddle--only an old bridle, from which dangled a half-rotted rope-end.
In the middle of the floor, which was mostly rotted away, a space about fifteen feet square was covered with thick pine planking, strongly nailed to the beams.
At one corner the process of decay had gone on till roof, superstructure, and foundation had rotted down and left an opening large enough to admit a coach and four horses.
I have lived in this hole for fifteen years, till I have almost rotted away like the place itself!
I have lived in this hole, and for fifteen years made myself a slave to her whims, till I have almost rotted away like the place itself.
Presently he came to a spot where an old, half-rotted stump had been torn apart by a bear hunting for wood-ants.
One of the cross-stakes, already half-rotted through, broke at once, and the two top rails went down with a crash.
This was no idle threat, for when Friar Tommaso da Casteldemilio heard it read and said it was displeasing to God, he was cast into a similar prison, where he rotted to death in a few months.
There was nothing under the bush more dangerous than a dead, half-rotted log.
The wood was very old and part of the top had rotted off.
Some had fallen amid the wreckage left by previous gales, which the forest had partly made good, and there was scarcely a rod of the way that was not obstructed by half-rotted trunks.
Everywhere were heaps of brick, piles of rain-rotted wood, and rubbish-heaps.
The chamber seemed at one time to have been prepared for such a contingency as had occurred, for there were wool rugs on the stone floor, though they had rotted and partly disintegrated from the dampness.
Yes," he muttered, "the nation is beingrotted down.
He kneels at morn and noon and eve-- He hath a cushion plump: It is the moss, that wholly hides The rotted old Oak-stump.
When we made but ill speed with the Speedwell, Neither poets nor sheep could feed well: Now grief rotted the Liver, Yet Malta, dear Malta, as far off as ever!
If the land selected for potatoes is lacking in humus, fine compost or well-rotted manure will greatly increase the yield.
Do not apply too much just before seeding, and use only thoroughly rotted manure.
Fine black forest mold, thoroughly mixed with one fourth its bulk of well-rotted manure, makes the best soil for filling the seed-boxes.
After filling these with well-rotted stable manure, throw soil over them.
I put in a bit of potsherd to keep the roots from going astray, then small pieces of coal for drainage, then fill with mellow sifted soil, enriched with well-rotted manure.
The soil best adapted for Begonias is turfy loam, leaf-mold, sand, and old well-rotted manure in equal parts.
The soil should be well stirred to the depth of nearly two feet, and well rotted manure worked in.
The roots have great vitality, and when the stalk has frozen and rotted to the ground, a new growth will start forth, sometimes in a few weeks, and sometimes not for three months.
The soil should be dug deep and mixed with old rotted manure and sand liberally, unless the soil is naturally sandy; if heavy, clayey soil, it ought to have in addition to sharp sand, leaf mold and bog muck.
Mix a liberal supply of well-rotted manure with the soil, and if clayey, use sand.
These were embedded in rows in a great tower of brick and cement, the faces staring horribly forth, till the flesh rotted and nothing but the bare skulls remained.
Silently we went through huge and dripping beech woods, dim with fog wreaths, where great trees lay and rotted where they had fallen, and silently out over rich grassy uplands where no flocks feed.
They rotted till you couldn't stand the smell of them, and it would give a billy-goat the pip to hear them mentioned.
They rotted in the field till the stink of them was worse than a chow's camp, an' what didn't rot was just cooked in the sun.
Peggy led her followers out of the east door towards the river; wheeling when she reached a little wind-row of rotted timbers.
On the other, a general who rotted under a marble slab, engraved with cannon, guns and banners, as though he hoped to terrify death.
If you want them, and your garden was not dressed in the autumn, some well-rotted compost should be dug in for the Sunflowers in spring.
If your soil is heavy you must dig in leaf-mould, sand, and well-rotted cow-manure.
It requires a warm and sheltered situation, and in spring likes a mulching of well-rotted manure.
If someone will fork in a little well-rotted stable manure, so much the better; if that is not possible, you can add a small quantity of Clay’s Fertilizer.
Next came money the poisoner, with that affair of the African Railways, which had rotted the Parliament and turned Duvillard, the triumphant bourgeois, into a public perverter, the very cancer as it were of the financial world.
If France had only possessed an army, said he, one might have swept away that handful of bribe-taking parliamentarians who preyed upon the country androtted it.
You ought to point it out in an article, and show people how the country is gradually being weakened and rotted to the marrow by all such useless and degrading discussions.
And he had found there naught but ruins, the rotted trunk of a tree that could never put forth another springtide; and he had heard there naught but the supreme rending of the old social edifice, near to its fall.
He could not bring himself to confront any face or house; a plowed field, any sign of tillage, the rotted stump of a long-felled pine, the slightest passing trace of man was uncongenial and repelling to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rotted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
