It is merely a tinsel coating over the rottenness and rust with which Russian life is "sicklied o'er.
And again, figs, when they are quite ripe, gape open; and in the ripe olives the very circumstance of their being near to rottenness adds a peculiar beauty to the fruit.
I thought the building could never even be pulled down, but in one adhesive heap of rottenness and poster.
The collapse of the Austrian administration, of which the inherent rottenness was now revealed, involved that of those reactionary powers which had leaned upon it.
During its struggle with France, Spain found itself also involved in hostilities with England, and the real rottenness of the Spanish monarchy became rapidly apparent.
Scorning the sensual, always against the vulgar, in much the same manner as Carlyle, Brann stuck the gaffles of truth deep into the sides of wrong in high places, and exposed rottenness wherever found.
In the upper classes of society, however, the core-rottenness of the courts of Charles and James was yet felt, throughout the reigns of the succeeding sovereigns, even down to the time of George III.
Beware, thou, the hour when the tomb shall be rent and the rottenness exposed,' returned Apaecides, solemnly.
The weight of this rottenness lay heaviest of all on the labouring poor, who stood undermost in the social scale.
They are significant of many things--of a coming democracy that will at least try to burn up the rottenness of our modern ultra Pagan-civilization.
With her the rottenness that is allowed to ferment among the populace is carried upward and rots the aristocracy.
He put up with Mme Lerat and her encumbrances, with Louiset and the mournful complaints peculiar to a child who is being eaten up with the rottenness inherited from some unknown father.
And when at last I got to her deck I found it so soft, partly with rottenness and partly with a sort of moss growing over it, that I was fearful at each step that it would give way under me and let me down with a crash into her hold.
If the War can teach us any lessons, as a nation--and sometimes I doubt whether it will--it ought at least to teach us the essential vicious rottenness of our present educational system.
I had known her (like many of her kind) to proclaim the rottenness of the Universe when she was off her stroke at golf, or when a favourite young man did not appear at a dance.
On that afternoon she came to me, as I have told you, with her strawberries and her declaration of the rottenness of life.
Shake off the heavy honeydew of thy soul, no longer lulled with that Circean cup, drinking thy own thoughts with thy own ears, but start up in thy promised likeness, and shake the pillared rottenness of the world!
Besides, all this untoward heat and precocity often argues rottenness and a falling-off.
All life had turned to rottenness and stench in them--love was a beastliness, joy was a snare, and God was an imprecation.
Everything had been drenched and soaked by the rain of the preceding day; an odor arose and hung in the air persistently, that odor of the battlefield that smells like fermenting straw and burning cloth, a mixture of rottenness and gunpowder.
He grappled with questions that shook empires; led the van in many a contest against despotism; was indebted in no small degree for his victories to the rottenness of the institutions he assailed.
He was a Wilkes, without so large a measure of cowardice, meanness, turbulence, orrottenness of character and principle.
They will preserve them from the rottenness of oblivion.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
You've all the irresponsibility and moral rottenness of your Cavalier ancestors in you; do you know it, James?
He had no illusions about the efficiency of his armies, though he may not have been cognizant of the thorough rottenness of the whole.
The attractive warmth and color and richness are found to be but rottenness and decay.
Himself a renegade priest, he certainly would not have hesitated to expose the Order to which he had once belonged, and vindicate his broken vows by the revelation of any moral rottenness known within the walls of its seminaries.
If the Irish Church be doomed, her fate will be owing to her defenders: the rottenness and black dishonesty of the men who rally round her would disgrace any cause.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones' (Prov 14:30).
When I heard, my belly trembled--rottenness entered into my bones.
When Habakkuk heard the word of the Lord, his belly trembled, and rottennessentered into his bones.
Parliamentary rottenness had slowly increased till it had begun to attack society itself.
All the iniquity of olden pagan society, agonising beneath the rottenness born of debauchery and covetousness, was weighing on his shoulders, bearing him down.
And all this seemingly indicated that Janzen was right when he declared that the house was past repair, fast crumbling amidst rottenness and insanity, and that it ought to be levelled to the ground.
