Since we began to be a nation we have always lamented our decay.

"This is the only possible mode of preventing the decay of the tobacco cultivation in the different provinces, as well as relieving the misery of the wretched inhabitants.

She feels no decay from old age, and her entrails still contain the same treasures.

During the eighty-nine years of his earthly pilgrimage he saw Italy enslaved and Florence extinguished; it was his exceeding bitter fate to watch the rapid decay of the arts and to witness the triumph of sacerdotal despotism over liberal thought.

The trail across the desert, naturally, ran through as many as possible of these successful efforts of nature to resist decay, and along the trail there were to be found skeletons and ghastly remains of men whose courage had exceeded their ability, and who had succumbed to hunger and thirst in this great, lonesome desert.

The acid thus generated attacks the enamel of the teeth, causing decay of the dentine.

Still more unfortunate is it for the animists that evidence points to the fact that advance in civilization often means the decay of monotheism, and that the ruder races are the purer in their religious and ethical conceptions.

The last sight I had of him was when, on his voyage to Egypt, he came to see me at my home in London, aged and showing the decay of age, but as alert and interrogative as ever with his insatiate intellectual activity.

It marked, on the part of millions of men, a portentous decay of belief in representative government and its chosen organthe ballot box.

Parkman estimates that in 1763 the whole number of Indians east of the Mississippi was but ten thousand, and they were already mourning their own decay.

At all events, the friendship between Cornelia and Laura suffered no decay or diminution.

No form of civilization, however brilliant and lauded, could arrest decay and ruin when public and private virtue had fled.

I observed the natural decay of the human body, and saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted.

Some of the trees were rotten and orchids covered their decay with fantastic bloom.

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Other poisons, as phosphorus, produce this fatty decay more rapidly; but alcohol causes it in a much more general way.

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New doth the sun appear; The mountains' snows decay; Crowned with frail flowers comes forth the baby year.

There are many other causes which might be mentioned as tending to induce decay of the teeth, but their consideration here is purposely avoided.

The seas shall waste, the skies to smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away; But fixed His word, His saving power remains:

Leland, as we have seen records also the decay of the Cappers' industry.

We have never sympathized in the mean delight which some critics seem to experience in detecting the signs which subtly indicate the decay of power in creative intellects.

But now, with more than common danger press'd, Of various resolutions stands possess'd, Perceives the crowd's unstable zeal decay Lest their recanting chief the cause betray, Who on a father's grace his hopes may ground, And for his pardon with their heads compound.

Yet there the valley smiles; the tomb Of ages is a garden gay, And wild flowers freshen in their bloom, As from the sod they drink decay.

They serve to show that a frank acceptance of the evolutionary philosophy by no means necessarily entails the decay of devout personal piety or the loss of beautiful ideals.