Every foot of earth, the rotting wood, the bark of the standing trees, every pool, and the litter of dead leaves and husks, were populous when closely regarded.
It led downwards to a small stream, which was cumbered with fallen and rotting timber, a cool hollow where ferns were abundant.
They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun.
Donovan shouldered open a door and ascended a narrow flight ofrotting stairs.
One of the posts was broken and the rotting structure leaned drunkenly against a lilac bush.
How to make them see the millions of people of alien races moving slowly, like huge masses of rotting putrescence, to a new life?
For three weeks and more dead bodies of Germans and Frenchmen have lain rotting there.
There the mangrove trees stood rotting in black water and slimy ooze, so thick together that the misty sun never penetrated half-way down their inextricable branches, and even from the edge of the forest one looked into darkness.
She had no voice, and could only utter a hollow croaking that sounded like the stifled sob of a dreaming child.
And in one part, in a place where there seemed to have been a pit, was a quantity of rotting stuff, that seemed like the remains of bones.
With all the spirit of Spain in her rotting body she flashed triumphant glances on her captors.
For thirteen years now he had ruled, striving with some success to put some virtue and stability into the rotting Empire, but raising many fierce enemies as he did so-enemies whom he had not the strength nor the wit to hold in check.
It was one of the dismalest days of autumn; the meadows of Berkshire were flooded with broad, muddy streams, and the woods on the hills of Hampshire looked brown and sodden, as if slowly rotting away.
Some were half buried in sand, some so old and mossy that they were fast rotting away, while a few had been recently hurled there.
A vèrro was a man whose valor was already demonstrated, one who has several proofs of the power of his hand, or the accuracy of his aim, rotting in the earth.
The Portuguese and Spanish of the other sea had discovered new routes and the Majorcan ships lay rotting in idleness.
They swarm in deserted houses, where the broken casements hang rotting to the crumbling walls and the doors swing creaking on their rusty hinges.
There arose within him old-fashioned ideas concerning right and wrong--clear notions that brought a current of air through his mind and blew away much rotting foliage and evil fruit.
Great as this building and rotting has been for forty years past, it must continue to become greater.
Twenty thousand a year in her own right, too, left her by that diamond chap, just for taking his rotting name.
Now Mr. Dugald was lounging against one of the rotting timbers of the house-that-had-been and sketching Miss Letty on the pad which he always carried in the pocket of his old coat.
Beneath the ocean vast, Full many a captain bold, By many a rotting mast, And admiral of old, Rolled restless in his grave As he felt the sobbing wave, When the Cumberland went down.
The skeleton burst out from its rotting robes and collapsed on the ground before us.
It was as though an old, rotting coffin had been gilt and furnished with new, gay tassels.
Cobwebs were in the angles of the walls and depended from the ceiling like strips of rotting lace making undulatory movements in the disturbed air.
Only the bones of La Corse, the schooner Jerome Capriata had sailed many years, lay rotting under a grotesque and dark banian, never more to feel the foot of man upon the deck or to toss upon the sea.
The rottinghomes of the Marquesan people speak more eloquently of death than do sunken graves.
Calomel, a very fashionable remedy, used for producing ulcerated gums and for rotting the teeth of thousands of the human family, as the dentists can testify.
It had probably been caused by some fungus growth or insects eating into the tree and gradually rotting away part of the wood.
Pains of the wounded body, quivering flesh, rotting away in life.
Until some twelve years or so ago the fruit was largely sold on the trees for shipment to Russia and Rumania, but those markets failed, owing to the prevalence in Cyprus of scale disease and partly to loss through rotting in transport.
