965 examples of rotting in sentences
Then she ducked her head, crooked her arms at the elbow, and, with fists uplifted, she broke into a run, jumping from pile to pile of frozen pay, gliding under sluice-boxes, scrambling up the bank, slipping on the rotting ice, recovering, dashing on over fallen timber and through waist-deep drifts, on beyond No. 10 up to the bench above.
"Fair king," said the earl gaily, "for a great while the thought has disturbed me, that peace and soft living are rotting away the British bone.
" "You're rotting.
" "No, but look here, Smith, bar rotting.
On the whole, reading his plays is like nibbling at a rotting apple; even the good spots are affected by the decay, and one ends by throwing the whole thing into the garbage can, where most of the dramatic works of this period belong.
I have no objection primâ facie to an aristocracy, and I am quite ready to admit that conflicting claims of proprietorship in the same lands are an evil; but I also know that, even in our old Christian Europe, there are not many aristocracies that have had salt enough in them to prevent them from rotting.
In places rotting logs lay half submerged in the water, looking oddly like alligators in the distance.
And then I smelt an evil stench, and looking about, saw the blown-out carcass of a rotting sheep lie close at hand.
was it worth £500diseased, rotting as it was, and about to be given for nothing to mother earth?
Beyond we could see the fields, where the crops, already overripe, must surely waste for lack of men and teams to harvest them; and on the edge of one field we marked where the three peasants dug the grave for the rotting horse, striving to get it underground before it set up a plague.
Foul and loathsome they were, and we knew that they owed their existence to, and fattened on, the putrid corpses of dead men and animals which lay rotting and unburied in every direction.
There would be a devil of a row and rumpus in Bond Street and elsewhere if they knew I was painting here instead of rotting in Westminster Abbey.
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.
That five hundred boys shared this horrible environment with me did not abate my sufferings a jot; for it was clear that they did not find it distasteful, and they therefore became as unsympathetic for me as the smell and noise and rotting stones of the school itself.
You have 'em dying in hospital, rotting in the hulks!
The air of the cross street was stale and stagnant; from it rose exhalations of rotting fruit, the gases of an open subway, the smoke of passing taxicabs.
The peerless image, To whom this court is but the tawdry frame, The speck of light amid its murky baseness, The salt which keeps it all from rotting,cast To be the common fool,the laughing stock For every beardless knave to whet his wit on!
But pestilence raged abroad in the country now, and the people of the port, who had so far escaped the evil, were loth to let it enter among them at last, and had not yet recovered from the recoil of their first shock and shiver at thought of it in their waterswaters than which none could have fostered it more kindly, full as they were in their shallow breadth of rotting weeds and the slime of sewers.
The man lay with a slate-coloured face, his chin cocking up towards the sky, his eyes turned upwards to the whites, and his mouth wide open showing a leathern crinkled tongue like a rotting leaf.
He then clears a few acres by cutting down the large trees about four feet from the ground[Footnote: These stumps are many years rotting, and, when completely rotted, afford an excellent manure.
The ever recurrent signslong ranges of blue mountains, the streak of bog, the rotting cabin, the flock of plover rising from the desolate water.
It stands for all, unto the end of time, That turns this bright world black and the Sun cold, With hate, and hoarding;all-triumphant Greed That spreads above the roots of all despair, And misery, and rotting of the soul!
Bits of their rotting carcases are flung into our faces and over our heads as new shells burst and scatter them.
Internally it was in many parts in open revolt, in all the rest stagnant and slowly rotting.
His eyes were like a cat's in the purple darkness, or like that heatless fire which shines on rotting bark.