All this cultivating and working, all this going about and making things right with this little jobber here, that contractor there, all the squaring of small political clubs and organizations, all the subscription blackmail and charity bribery, that now makes a Parliamentary candidature so utterly rotten an influence upon public life, will be killed dead by Proportional Representation.

In other spots it is incredibly rotten.

But, though Louis judged rightly for his own and his queen's character in bringing those who were guilty of forgery and robbery to a public trial, the result inflicted an irremediable wound on one great institution, furnishing an additional proof how incurably rotten the whole system of the Government must have been, when corruption without shame or disguise was allowed to sway the highest judicial tribunal in the country.

Society is intrinsically rotten, you know, and Dalton" "Is a fellow of considerable talent," sneered Lethal,"but has enemies, who may have planned a duke.

That is a queer preachment and I'm a jolly rotten preacher.

Maybe it was his liver that made him feel so confoundedly rotten and no count.

" In other words, the theatrical life and literature of the Restoration was morally rotten to the core.

" "Well, they're rottenabsolutely rotten.

A leg-weary man was asked by an officer if his feet were blistered, and replied: "They're rotten sore, but my heart's gay."

Found his wife played the piano pretty medium rotten, so when he wanted to work himself into a rage about something he'd sit down in the parlor and make her pound out "The Maiden's Prayer.