6 examples of putridity in sentences

" After an illustration from the vegetable creation, Darwin adds: "The naked skin on the head of a vulture is generally looked at as a direct adaptation for wallowing in putridity; and so it may be, or it may possibly be due to the direct action of putrid matter; but we should be very cautious in drawing any such inference, when we see that the skin on the head of the clean-feeding male turkey is likewise naked.

This water, although of a dirty and thick appearance, is said to possess the valuable quality of resisting putridity for years.

There was a general odor of decaying fruit and fish, a smell of staleness and putridity.

But the dirt of a prison speaks sadness to the heart, and appears to be already in a state of putridity and infection.

At every step that our bearers took, the icy mass of putridity before me, shook togethermy flesh creeps even now at the recollection.

If thou wouldst be perfect in the greatness of thy way, thou must learn to live in the fire of thy own divine nature turned against thy conscious self: learn to smile content in that, and thou wilt out-satan Satan in the putridity of essential meanness, yea, self-satisfied in very virtue of thy shame, thou wilt count it the throned apotheosis of inbred honor.

6 examples of  putridity  in sentences