Do we say rot or wrought

rot 546 occurrences

Then the other laughs, and crysAy, rot herand tells his Story too, and concludes with, Who manages the Jilt now; Why, faith, some dismal Coxcomb or other, you may be sure, replies the first.

The sun was very hot; the rain next day made the bodies rot, and the men had to just shovel them in" "Oh, oh!

A murrain on 'em, one and all, say Iin especial Ralpho that was my comrade oncemay he rot henceforth" "Content you, Roger, he doth so!" laughed grim Walkyn and pointed to his axe.

Free to go in rags, to live like beasts, to die unpitied and be thrown into a hole, or left to rot

Col. JAMES FISK, Jr. Fools, 'od rot 'em! ..............................

"That's all tommy-rot," observed Handsome Tim, in a sulky tone.

After death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes the moonlight fearful.

We will rot follow them, day by day, in their fatiguing journey; but merely state that its length and difficulty exceeded even the expectations of Edith and her companion; but never damped the persevering courage of the former, or drew from her a complaint, or a wish to return.

i]: "Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clot; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods.

Will you, like the rest of this wise world, let a man's spirit rot asleep into the pit, if he will only lie quiet and not disturb your smooth respectabilities; but if he dares, in waking, to yawn in an unorthodox manner, knock him on the head at once, and "break the bruised reed," and "quench the smoking flax"?

"Of course it's the most awful rot," said Lord Bob, "but he's accused of murder.

Her son will rot before he upholds it, and ye can put that in the charge-sheet in the next coort-martial.

" "Excuse all this rot, Mr. Montgomery," said the University man, in a genial voice.

" "You'll land me into the trouble of telling you not to talk rot in a minute," he returned.

He would simply have disappeared with the money and left you to rot or starve.

For if among sheep, the rot; amongst dogs, the mange; amongst horses, the glanders; amongst men and women, the Northern itch and the French ache, be diseases, an hypocrite cannot but be the like in all States and societies that breed him.

pudrir, to rot, decay. pueblecillo, m., small town, village. pueblo, m., people, populace, village; gente del , common people.

"Rot." "You only say that because you don't like to think she's got it.

Have I?" "Don't talk such putrid rot.

You never heard such stinking rot.

And it's rot sending for Eliot.

For when the soul departeth, a man seeth corruption, and the bones of his body rot and become wholly loathsomeness, the members decay piecemeal, the bones crumble into an inert mass, the flesh turneth into foetid liquid, and he becometh a brother unto the decay which cometh upon him.

Do not thou give me over unto that slaughterer who dwelleth in his torture-chamber (?), who killeth the members of the body and maketh them to rot, who worketh destruction upon many dead bodies, whilst he himself remaineth hidden and liveth by slaughter; let me live and perform his message, and let me do that which is commanded by him.

I shall not decay, I shall not rot, I shall not putrefy, I shall not turn into worms, and I shall not see corruption under the eye of the god Shu.

It may also die of dry rot by the old wharves.

wrought 3020 occurrences

It was in her cause two million young Yankees were at that very hour facing the Boche in a determined effort to chase him back over the Rhine and force a stern settlement for all the devastation his armies had wrought.

Would it not be an insufferable thing for a learned professor, and that which his scarlet would blush at, to have his authority of forty years standing, wrought out of hard rock, Greek and Latin, with no small expense of time and candle, and confirmed by general tradition and a reverend beard, in an instant overturned by an upstart novelist?

We find such thoughts as: "God hath wrought many miracles, and He performs them every day, but these miracles have become much less important in the sight of men because they are very common...

I cannot looke on her But Ime as violent as a high-wrought sea In my desires; a fury through my eyes At every glance of hers invades my heart.

If your cure be wrought soe easily, pittie you should perish for want of physick.

Had I not heard Theis last distemperd words, I would have sworne That in the making up of Barnavelt Reason had only wrought, passion no hand in't.

He was so wrought up that he had omitted even to shake hands with Hilda.

The wrought-iron entrance to the pier was highly illuminated, but except for a man's head and shoulders caged in the ticket-box of the turnstile, there was no life there; the man seemed to be waiting solitary with everlasting patience in the web of wavering flame beneath the huge dark sky.

So by the young men of that ancient time he was deemed to have wrought a mighty deed, and in succouring of parents to be supreme.

For unto all cities is the fame familiar of the citizens of Erechtheus, who at divine Pytho have wrought thee, O Apollo, a glorious house.

I ween there is no marvel impossible if gods have wrought thereto.

As this woman passed before Sir Tristram, he beheld that she wore upon her thumb a very fair and shining ring, that bare a green stone set in wrought gold.

The object of the story was to ventilate the monstrous injustice wrought by delays in the old Court of Chancery, which defeated all the purposes of a court of justice.

Hence our midland plains have never lost their familiar expression and conservative spirit for me; yet at every other mile, since I first looked on them, some sign of world-wide change, some new direction of human labour has wrought itself into what one may call the speech of the landscapein contrast with those grander and vaster regions of the earth which keep an indifferent aspect in the presence of men's toil and devices.

All human achievement must be wrought down to this spoon-meatthis mixture of other persons' washy opinions and his own flux of reverence for what is third-hand, before Hinze can find a relish for it.

The same with Italy: the pathos of his country's lot pierced the youthful soul of Mazzini, because, like Dante's, his blood was fraught with the kinship of Italian greatness, his imagination filled with a majestic past that wrought itself into a majestic future.

Their heads were covered with kerchiefs, somewhat wrought with silk and gold thread, and they were armed with swords and daggers like Moors.

He sat in a chair, of the ancient fashion, very well made and wrought with wire, having a silk cushion; and on another chair beside him, there lay a hat of crimson satin.

He wore a jacket of fine cotton cloth, having buttons of large pearls and the button-holes wrought with gold thread.

y. The town itself had changed but little, and the older inhabitants were for the most part easily recognisable, but time had wrought wonders among the younger members of the population: small boys had attained to whiskered manhood, and small girls passing into well-grown young women had in some cases even changed their names.

His father had gone to sea again, and the house was very dull; moreover, he felt a mild curiosity to see the changes wrought by time in Mr. Wilks.

The Doctor said that freedom had wrought like a magician, and had it not been for the unprecedented drought, the island would now be in a state of prosperity unequalled in any period of its history.

Notwithstanding the descriptions we had heard of the great change which emancipation had wrought in the observance of Christmas, we were quite unprepared for the delightful reality around us.

She hath wrought a good work on Me.

When once He wanted to use a coin as an illustration, He borrowed it; when, at another time, He needed one with which to pay a tax, He wrought a miracle in order to procure it.

Do we say   rot   or  wrought