| 单词 | dry-rot |
| 例句 | He responds, animatedly for once, to the suggestion that Graham Greene, quizzed about his plots, would reply in the style of a solicitor or dry-rot inspector talking about a house. Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z “Rust, decay, breakage…dry-rot, ants, keep up a never-ending attack” on his other assets. Why sub-zero interest rates are neither unfair nor unnatural 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z There was a summer-house close at hand which, with the appearance of a decayed beehive, smelt of dry-rot and was littered with paper bags. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z She felt that he was laying to his wife's charge the wreck of his life, and the slow dry-rot which had sapped hope, and strength, and development. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z More than all other factors this moral blight and spiritual dry-rot is what is the matter with Panama. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Our present civilisation is suffering from a sort of dry-rot. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Spain in the eighteenth century was dying from that commonest of national diseases—dry-rot. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The mouldings and ornaments were in the most superb fashion of its age, but the whole was falling to pieces from the effects of the dry-rot. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Damp, unventilated situations are most favourable to the development of dry-rot Fungi. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The dry-rot had, however, got into the wood, and the whole framework was much decayed. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z Seasoning timber to prevent the dry-rot in ships, churches, and other buildings. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z The entire building, for want of ventilation, having become food for the fungus, called dry-rot, the timbers had lost its cohesive powers. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z On that you could live comfortably, be free from worry, and die of dry-rot and Scotch highballs at about my age.” The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z His bed is a hollow made in red dry-rot punky dust beside a log which forms a portion of the south wall of the corral. My First Summer in the Sierra We all remember the campaign of propaganda that was forced into the very fibre of every country, to weaken with its insidious dry-rot the safe foundations of our very civilization. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 The mouldings and ornaments were in the most superb fashion of its age; but the whole was falling to pieces, from the effects of the dry-rot. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew But that had been better than the dry-rot of an escape from righteous punishment. The Prisoner It is the only thing that will prevent what is known as the "dry-rot" from attacking her timbers. Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly This dry-rot fungus perhaps enters the trunk by way of the stumps of limbs broken off by the snow that loads the broad palmate branches. My First Summer in the Sierra So every precaution must be taken against dampness and dry-rot. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines The entire building, for want of ventilation, having become food for the fungus, called dry-rot, the timber had lost its cohesive powers. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew A perusal justifies the worst that has been said of them: though Goff wrote early enough to escape the Caroline dry-rot in dramatic versification. A History of Elizabethan Literature Military critics had long been aware that the army of India was antiquated, honeycombed with dry-rot, and largely ruled by favorites sitting in high places at Whitehall. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan A woman had to have the 376 association of congenial people to keep her from falling into housekeeping dry-rot. The Wind Before the Dawn The Aden incident is similar to the Mesopotamian medical muddle, both being due to sporadic dry-rot in high places which the test of war revealed. Pan-Islam As far as my reading has taken me, it seems to be the dry-rot of nations. The World Peril of 1910 During these years he contributed more than a hundred articles to the Review, on the greatest possible variety of topics,—he could write on everything, from poetry to dry-rot, it was said. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) It was like a tree which seems all vigorous, but which, when one thrusts into the heart of it, proves to be pervaded by dry-rot. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion Irma had only looked into the cellar when she first came, and had found it rifled, the barrels dry and gaping, full of dust, dry-rot and the smell of decay. The Dew of Their Youth We are not fanatics, but a nation that has neither faith in itself nor faith toward others must soon crumble to pieces by moral dry-rot. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The windows are open, and a warm, spiced wind flutters through in pleasantly successful disputation with odours of dry-rot and chilly earth and stone. Despair's Last Journey An economic dry-rot at the heart of a country is more terrible than excoriations on the surface. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Nevertheless, the evil attending this type of teaching is, to our thinking, great and serious, designed to undermine selfhood and to set up a species of dry-rot at the very centre. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive He hated the dry-rot like poison, and could not rest till he had ripped up every board and rafter that harboured it. A Dog with a Bad Name And they have found that the word "classical" is not a synonym for dry-rot, but that it simply means the music that wears best. The Joyful Heart In that case they have the dry-rot and the life dies out of them by degrees. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry When an institution grows so great that it has no soul—simply a financial head and a board of directors—dry-rot sets in and disintegration in a loose wrapper is at the door. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers The old wall-paper dropped in tatters, the ceiling showed patches where the plaster had broken from the battens, rats had eaten holes in the green baize table-cloth, and the whole place smelt of dry-rot. News from the Duchy There was something worse than dry-rot in it now. A Dog with a Bad Name The Spanish War had done more than give straps to a lot of civilians with pulls; it had eradicated the dry-rot from the Army. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars "The tools to the workmen!" no other principle will save a Republic from destruction, either by civil war or the dry-rot. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry There were sometimes violent altercations when the captains differed as to the tonnage of some craft that had been a prey to the winds and waves, dry-rot, or barnacles fifty years before. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches So long had the room been closed that dry-rot had set in. A Woman Named Smith But Mr Frampton added yet another blow at the very heart of the dry-rot before the week was out. A Dog with a Bad Name While overhauling the Casco two or three days before they planned to leave Tautira, Captain Otis was shocked to find the whole upper half of the main masthead completely eaten out by dry-rot. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls I was wondering to-day when I saw the Highflyer's foremast between the buildings on Fleet Street as I went to meeting, if they were going to let her lie there and dry-rot. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Was that growing indifference of hers to dress and trips to the city, and seeing Eugenia's smart crowd there, a sign of mental dry-rot? The Brimming Cup If the condition of drooping prices and general distrust, a sort of commercial dry-rot, which had succeeded the panic, continued much longer he would be driven to the wall unless relief were forthcoming. Unleavened Bread Mr Frampton—he was not even a “Doctor” or a “Reverend,” but was a young man with sandy whiskers, and a red tie—had a few ideas of his own on the subject of dry-rot. A Dog with a Bad Name The blinking Army's got dry-rot and revolutionary fever, and we may all be murdered in our little beds unless I put a shoulder to the wheel. Simon Called Peter So the wag thinks his victim has sufficiently suffered, and carries it back to his book-shelf, to "dry-rot" there in all the comfort it deserves. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) I don't want to think about the possibility of some dreadful dry-rot happening to married people's feelings towards each other, as they get older and get used to each other. The Brimming Cup Now, old sea-king! look well to thy barge of state: for, peradventure, the dry-rot may be eating into its keel; and the wood-worms exploring into its spars. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II So sure as the habit of concealment sets in, so surely we may be certain that the dry-rot of the soul has begun. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The worst dissipation in this world is the dry-rot of morality, and of the so-called piety that separates men of prosperity and of power from the poor and ignoble. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 They see in a flower only the germ of dry-rot; the most ideal beauty appears to them only like the negligible covering of some hideous skeleton. Common Sense, How to Exercise It The most dangerous kinds are the so-called "dry-rot" fungi which work in many kinds of lumber after it is placed in the buildings. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing Divorced of this Element, literature is at once lowered in tone, a dry-rot seizes upon it and eats away its finest portions. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy But the dry-rot is spreading; body and soul react on each other, and the forlorn one soon begins to be fatally false and weak in morals, and dirty and slovenly in person. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Sparrows were there, cats were there, dry-rot and wet-rot were there, but it was not otherwise a suggestive spot. Our Mutual Friend The old house, as we have already said, had both the dry-rot and the damp-rot in its walls; it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere than that. House of the Seven Gables Just what degree of moisture in wood is necessary for the "dry-rot" fungus has not been determined, but it is evidently considerably above that of thoroughly air-dry timber, probably more than 15 per cent moisture. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing They sat on a heap of discarded railroad ties, oak logs spotted with cinnamon-colored dry-rot and marked with metallic brown streaks where iron plates had rested. Main Street Mere doubt, without any resistance from the intuitive, non-discursive side of our nature, is the dry-rot of the soul. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Can anything be more pitiful than "a fine old family" afflicted with dry-rot like ours? The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation She had dwelt too much alone,—too long in the Pyncheon House,—until her very brain was impregnated with the dry-rot of its timbers. House of the Seven Gables Then he found that the handle was decaying from dry-rot, and he changed the handle; and so on. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. But here, too, there were Tories, confessed and defiant; and everywhere, as time passed, the dry-rot of doubt spread among those who were of neither party. In the Valley Even after twenty minutes in that bedroom she had begun to feel enervated, as if she herself were also beginning to suffer from dry-rot…. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 As it resists the white-ant, an insect that destroys oak and every other kind of wood, and is never subject to the dry-rot, it is invaluable for building purposes. The Bushman — Life in a New Country The wood of the handle was honeycombed with the gnawings of worms, and dusty with dry-rot. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales It was a disturbed and tottering inheritance to which he succeeded, riddled with the dry-rot of corruption, but the inheritor proved himself equal to the occasion. Crescent and Iron Cross But this superficial culture could not save the Roman Republic from the dry-rot that sapped her vitals from within. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) They were relics of the past, foolishly pretending an ability for service when their life had been sapped by dry-rot and their original functions outlived. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 He would rather have that than flabby silence, as if he were nailing into dry-rot. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale In like manner the discipline used in the British fleet, while not less drastic, failed conspicuously to counteract the dry-rot introduced and fostered by the press-gang. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore What makes you think that our love would survive the—the dry-rot of life? The Heart of Rachael A few yards in the direction away from the Square, and Tysoe Street falls under the dominion of dry-rot. The Nether World They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.' Women in Love The "Lone Star House" was an attempt to woo the passing travelers from another point; but its road led to Campville, and was already touched by its dry-rot. Jeff Briggs's Love Story The French, as finis of their attempt to cut Germany in Four, find themselves sunk into torpor, abeyance and dry-rot; fermenting towards they know not what. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 A result painfully surprising to Most Christian Majesty; gratifying to Britannic proportionately, or more;—and indeed beneficial towards abating dry-rot and melodious palaver in that poor Land of the Free. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 The dislocated ceiling was scaling off in large pieces; the floor seemed affected with the dry-rot; and the doors and windows were so much warped and sprung, that it required an effort to close them. Other People's Money You might as well take them there new pants o' mine, they'll only dry-rot out here—and the coat, too, if you like—it's too small for me, anyway. Over the Sliprails And me, I get the credit for being a terrible old crank, but if I didn't blow up once in a while and get something started, we'd die of dry-rot. Babbitt Freedom to let the State go to dry-rot, and become the laughing-stock of mankind. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 |
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