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Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
But the mouldering house on the hill behind comes from the 19th century, a dark suppressed history, a world of Edgar Allan Poe. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z
A musician in flight from London, he loiters in his family's mouldering country home: Tom Scutt's design wittily conjures up the grubbiness, the antlers on the wall, the superfluous rugs. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z
There was nothing, he complained, to remind the visitor of “the heaps of mouldering human dust”. Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z
A semi-circular hedge is home to a group of Roman senators, their stone robes mouldered by time. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z
Now, his movie would sit and moulder, an unedited mass of raw footage. Peter Strickland: 'I'm glad British film produces mainstream crowd-pleasers, but I don't want to make one' 2012-08-23T20:00:02Z
Give me the dusty basement any day, or the mouldering, unattended displays of fossils or butterflies in glass cases as they always used to be in the Natural History Museum. Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university 2010-05-08T12:55:00Z
In 1979 the photographs, still uncatalogued and many on mouldering and potentially dangerous old film, were transferred to the archives of the London School of Economics for safe storage. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover man behind myth 2011-07-05T12:25:40Z
Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z
Whose talents and virtues will be admired Long after this marble shall have mouldered into dust. After the Broadway Show, a Trip to Hamilton’s Grave 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z
Once I had negotiated a way through the mouldering and unread stacks of the main sponsor's newspaper I braced myself. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z
Among Droniki’s crumbling walls and sagging roofs, collapsed fences and barns filled with a mouldering harvest – and in the wider reserve – we see a flash forward to a world without people. Chernobyl: the wildlife haven created when people left 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z
France and America watch a weak region, infested with criminals, moulder. Paper trail 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
As he ebb’d closer to death, this image transformed into the body of a “gray and batter’d ship . . . rusting, mouldering” in “some nameless bay.” The “Sea-Salt” in Walt Whitman’s Poetry 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z
Here Frances de la Tour and Linda Bassett moulder away, lady and companion: guardians of a home – or a property? – looking as if they might be part of its saleable contents. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z
Parts 1 and 3 are ostensibly written by the editor, who has come into possession of a notebook discovered among the mouldering bones of a suicide's grave. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-07-13T21:55:07Z
Cunning isn't a word you naturally associate with the mouldering dishcloth in the sink of life that is Tyrone Dobbs of Coronation Street. Coronation Street: Tyrone and Fiz, the Bonnie and Clyde of the M6 2013-02-16T05:59:01Z
Rather, it is the perfect example of a mouldering public education system, crippled by Venezuela’s economic collapse. 'All we have are walls': crisis leaves Venezuela’s schools crumbling 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z
She’d taken refuge in an abandoned maintenance building, sniffling in the dust and dark under an old workbench, hidden behind a tangle of mouldering robot limbs. The game 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z
Whereas Botswana is making some progress, in other meteorological offices across Africa, millions of records are mouldering in cardboard boxes or languishing on obsolete technology. Scientists struggle to access Africa's historical climate data 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z
Sometimes the statues are left in a strange limbo – removed from their old spots, but left to moulder quietly out of the public gaze – for who knows whether one day they will be needed again? Phil Collins: why I took a Soviet statue of Engels across Europe to Manchester 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z
Stand bolted to the touchline, grey quilted coat quietly mouldering away, the thin white duke pared back defiantly to his basic parts. Arsène Wenger squeezes sadly into last season’s tactical skinny jeans | Barney Ronay 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z
Some 2,000 people have mouldered for years in the island camps, earning Australia rebukes from human-rights groups at home and abroad. The American solution 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z
Four years ago the BBC got hold of hundreds of police statements that had been mouldering away in a garage. Orgreave: The battle that's not over - BBC News 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z
Otherwise the general tone was disappointment, teams not so much being built as allowed to moulder grandly. Liverpool and Spurs are setting the Premier League pace, in more ways than one | Barney Ronay 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z
Italy's prime minister wears the name proudly, advertising his desire to tear through the mouldering institutions of the Italian state. Italy's Matteo Renzi buffeted on all fronts - BBC News 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z
Well, certainly not if radical Islam gets here first, and leaves us mouldering in the grave. WESLEY PRUDEN: Paris outrage recede 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z
German DJ, Frank Gossner, travels around Africa searching for old, unwanted and often mouldering LPs, gets them reissued and then plays them at his gigs around the world. Hidden treasures of a remote record shop - BBC News 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z
A lot of expensively accumulated global expertise is allowed to moulder away. Not-so-happy returns 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z
Another thousand or so journals, recorded in the 1930s, turned up in a mouldering old tea chest at the university. The lab that knows where your time really goes
A $200m boondoggle mouldering in the New Mexican desert, some have called it. Space travel for the 1%: VirginGalactic's $250,000 tickets haunt New Mexico town 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z
The place was cold and damp and smelled of mouldering leaves and animal droppings. The night I helped my mother escape North Korea 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z
In Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania felons who started their mandatory life sentences when young still moulder without reprieve; but the court announced on March 23rd that it would soon consider those cases, too. Children in adult jails 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z
Now the place is a mouldering heap of concrete. Ebola crisis: Liberia bounces back 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z
The rise of railways and roads made them redundant and many were left to moulder, alongside the old industrial areas of many cities. Crowded waters 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z
Etched in my memory are mouldering books, leaky hostels and bare lawns. The students who feel they have the right to cheat 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z
Yet Kentish Town’s shops and cafés are almost invariably untrendy and in some cases mouldering. Strange town 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z
On the top shelf, in separate bags, are the clothes – if any – the men were still wearing when their bones were found; bullet-ripped t-shirts, mouldering, blood-stained jeans. After Nearly Two Decades, Bosnia’s Dead Are Coming Home
The sun was high, sparkling on Glasgow’s mouldering tower-blocks and the distant green hills beyond the Clyde, and so were their spirits. How did it come to this? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z
As grassroots facilities moulder and state school sport declines, England’s top league banks £1.8bn a year. World Cup 2014: 17 things this tournament has taught us so far 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z
Like the garages themselves, these plans may moulder. Garage music 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
Two mouldering prototype N-250s still sit in silent reproach on the asphalt outside the Bandung plant. Manufacturing in Indonesia: On a wing and a prayer 2014-02-13T15:59:50Z
The pathologist on duty became so entranced by the face of the girl with the enigmatic half-smile that he asked a moulder to take a plaster cast of her face. Resusci Anne and the Mona Lisa of the Seine 2013-10-16T00:05:53Z
Some are now long buried under car parks and superstores, others still there but abandoned and mouldering. In praise of … lost football grounds 2012-12-25T21:45:01Z
He was known as Pit Legs, although his own trade was as a brass moulder. Joe Egan obituary 2012-11-26T13:02:02Z
As he now, mouldering, shares the doom Of those he buried in the tomb; So shall he, too, with them arise, To share the judgment of the skies. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z
Here one meets Great Memnon's monoliths, or, gay with weed, Rich capitals, as corner-stones, or seats,30 The sites of vanished temples, where now moulder Old ruins, hiding ruin even older. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z
The place was haunted by the spur smell of damp plaster and of woodwork that has begun to moulder secretly at the heart. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z
Jasmine used to ponder the old trunks, locked and strapped and full no doubt of mouldering clothes, that stood in every bedroom except her own. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z
The place was after this entirely abandoned, and the grass hid the rotting posts of the mouldering houses, which rapidly decayed in that hot, moist climate. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z
Up to that time this part of the Palatine was a vast kitchen-garden, broken here and there by picturesque groups of ilex trees and fragments of mouldering wall. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z
The old lord, mouldering in his coffin, was not more unlike that Georgian reveller than was the room of to-day unlike the room of eighty years before. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z
But he never did; and the mouldering traceries, the lattices long empty of glass, and the worm-eaten corbels of oak grey with age went on decaying all that fine July. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z
The eyes desert the naked skull, The mouldering flesh the bone, Till Helen's lily arms entwine A ghastly skeleton. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z
All through the groundworks are to be found great quantities of mouldering bones. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z
Now, elder grew between the shattered steps, weeds clothed them, the nymphs mouldered, lacking arms and heads, the urns gaped. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z
Even in short pieces, when the internal diameter approaches that of the external, this plan is the best, because it is difficult for the moulder to tell when his core is accurately set in position. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Kings have perished, armies are subdued, nations mouldered away! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z
It was a world rotting in its corruption, mouldering in its decay, and which to His pure sense had the moral aspect and odour of the charnel-house. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z
It is said that we have no ruins of ancient castles, frowning over our precipices; no time-worn abbeys and monasteries, mouldering away in neglected repose, in our valleys. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z
Just beyond it, on the declivity of a hill, over the ridge of which the wall passes, crowning it with two mouldering towers, lies the Protestant burying-ground. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z
Still another term applied to this class of machine is that of variety moulders or variety moulding machines. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Here mouldered the mortal remains of his predecessors, and here were to repose his bones when he, too, should be "gathered to his fathers." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z
Who knows how long it will be before these pictures have mouldered off the walls, and the very walls themselves are crumbling to dust?' The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z
In the other two corners a medley of faded scutcheons and banners, which had seen their last Toussaint procession, mouldered slowly into dust--into much dust. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z
The country about is one quarry of ruins, mouldering away in the moss. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z
"Ah, poor old Pepys," sighed the dark man; "if he had only taken better care of himself he might have been with us to-day instead of mouldering in his grave." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z
Revere said, walking into the cul-de-sac so carefully prepared for him, and stooping down and laying his finger on the mouldering keel. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z
Well may it be said of her, in the language of the poet, slightly altered, It is not meet such names should moulder in the grave. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z
When their mouldering bones had been sold wholesale and retail as precious relics, their very sepulchres and their shadows brought hosts of pilgrims to herd round their shrines. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Breathe your spirit into him; and fashion From the white grave-stone a steed to bear him: From the mouldering earth his food prepare him: Let him take his grave-shroud for a present! Servian Popular Poetry 2012-03-03T03:00:19.423Z
Hiram of Tyre promised to deliver wood from the forests of Lebanon at a price, and to put at his disposal architects and moulders of brass. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z
The cracks and crannies, the gaping seams of the broken, mouldering sides, the evidences of decay, were hidden in the shadows cast by the soft splendor. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z
They were close to the house, and he had referred to the mouldering shield over the doorway, and she was telling its story when she checked herself and stood still. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z
These mouldering bones and corroded trinkets were not, however, the key to Dighton Rock. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z
The dust covers the inscription which records all the honorary titles of the dead, and the standards which witnessed his victories moulder away. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z
Pharamond, a miracle of resource and ready usefulness, ferreted out curtains of thick silk from mouldering trunks, and made of the boudoir at the end of the suite quite a tempting and delightful nest. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z
No. It was the same gorgeously gloomy chamber in which she had so often wept, with its dim ancestors frowning from the background of mouldering arras. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z
The right side is bounded by a close-clipped ivied wall, pierced by an archway which gives access to the stables and the kennels, ended by a mouldering turret, converted long since into a water-tower. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z
Among the mouldering of ancient woods You live, and on the village border she, With her old father the blind wood-cutter; I saw her standing in her door but now. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z
Doubtless in this mouldering, dusty shell was snug, warm living. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z
Every picturesque ruin has its legend, which clings to it like vines to the mouldering wall. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z
When at night I have the nightmare, I always see the eyes of ants Swarming from a mouldering box of gold. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z
It is interesting to think of the magnificent old barons who kept state in the mouldering castles which everywhere adorn the Scottish landscape. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z
It still stands an almost mouldering ruin, its half-finished grandeur constantly recalling the parable of the foolish man who “began to build and was not able to finish.” The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z
Peace to the dead! the voice of Nature cries, Even o'er the grave where guilt or frailty lies; Compassion drives each sterner thought away, And all seem good when mouldering in the clay. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z
Pretty, quiet D—, with thy venerable church, in which moulder the mortal remains of England’s sweetest and most pious bard. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z
Although this stone may moulder into dust, Yet Joseph Moody’s name continue must. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z
And we, when death so long has clos'd our eyes, How wilt thou bid us from the dust arise, And bear our mouldering bones across the main. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z
Close to the point, a flat-topped object lay mouldering in the sun, half out of water, on the shoals by the bank. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z
Half way along is the old White House farm, with its green mounting steps mouldering outside. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z
At last she mounted the staircase to the mouldering rampart. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z
A shatter'd roof o'er every hut appears, And mouldering brick-work prompts the traveller's fears; A church, with half a priest, I grieve to see, Grass round its door, and rust upon its key!— The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z
Oft have I traced within thy fort, Of mouldering shields the mystic sense, Scutcheons of honor or pretence, Quartered in old armorial sort, Remains of rude magnificence. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z
A black squall was blowing down from the Sault Ste. Marie; and they lay at anchor out in the lake, tossing and pitching, opposite the green mouldering hull of the Fortuna. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z
The severest winter is followed oftentimes by the most blooming spring:" "It is true," said I: "But when will spring visit the mouldering urn? The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z
"O Nineveh! the God of armies dooms "Thy thousand streets to never-ending glooms: "Through mouldering fanes the hollow winds shall roar, "And vultures scream where monarchy lodg'd before! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z
What dirt, and mud, and mouldering walls, Burnt domes, dead dogs, and funerals! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z
By which a mouldering pile is faintly seen, The old deserted church of Hazeldean, Where slept my fathers in their natal clay, Till Teviot's waters rolled their bones away? The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z
Even in my existing agitated condition, I could not help catching the name and date on one mouldering slab which a labourer had just placed upon the edge of the pavement. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z
Here one meets Great Memnon's monoliths—or, gay with weed, Rich capitals, as corner stones, or seats— The sites of vanished temples, where now moulder Old ruins, hiding ruin even older. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z
Perhaps some miser, doom'd to discontent, Here counted o'er the heaps acquired with pain; He to the dust—his gold, on traffick sent, Shall ne'er disgrace these mouldering walls again. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z
Old creeping Time, that brings decay, Might yet have spared these mouldering walls, Alike beneath whose potent sway A temple or a tavern falls. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z
As the soil is of a loamy quality, it is very subject to moulder or wash away by heavy rains, even during the short Summer allotted to this part of the globe. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z
When experiment had proved that every imaginable form of cheap metal could be coated with silver or gold, by the agency of electro-chemistry, an immediate demand was created for designers, modellers, and moulders. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z
Ah! ivy binds the mouldering walls, And ruin reigns in Bothwell’s halls. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z
He is a spiritual ancestor, leader of a movement, moulder of young minds, founder of a faith. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z
Mere structures formed of common earth, Not they from heaven derive their birth, Or why through life, like vagrants, pass To mingle with the mouldering mass?— The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z
Their flesh was literally given to the eagles, as Walter Scott expresses it, and their bones, which lay bleaching on the mountain top, have long since mouldered to dust. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z
Sleeping or waking, quick or dead, mouldering in the coffin, or standing at the post of daily duty,—believers shall be secure and unmoved. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
And here the care of England will, no doubt, preserve them, with the nodding hearse-plumes, and all the monuments of that holiday of woe, to moulder as long as such things can possibly hold together. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
Further on, in another trench, they found one side of a boat, mouldered almost into the similitude of the sand in which it had been embedded for very many years. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z
There's your virtuous, charitable world, that would exact penalty of an innocent child for the sin of a progenitor who was mouldered in his tomb before she was born. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z
The mouldering stones of the old castle slipped from their 252places, and the wind whistled through the gaps, and raged through the old rooms and passages. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z
Well may a body racked with pain Envy mouldering bones in vain; Yet comes a day when the weary sword Reposes, to its sheath restored. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z
In another crypt we are shown two marble sarcophagi, well carved, in each of which lies a mouldering human figure once embalmed, and now black, without features, and with only a dim outline of form. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
Its streets present marks of desolation, mouldering walls, and ruined churches, and its population 94has dwindled to little more than seven thousand inhabitants. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z
In Greenwood Cemetery: O, ye whose mouldering frames were brought and placed By pious hands within these flowery slopes And gentle hills, where are ye dwelling now? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z
There is a mixed union of tailors, separate unions of blacksmiths’ helpers, moulders’ helpers, painters, and also of brickmasons, as just mentioned. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z
But away with the mouldering relics of the past. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z
It is known that the masses of cinder within which these bodies had slowly mouldered were filled with liquid plaster, and the forms of the bodies themselves, writhing in their last agonies, were thus obtained. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
Strike it down, that other boughs may flourish Where that perished sapling used to be; Thus at least its mouldering corpse will nourish That from which it sprung—Eternity. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z
In the walks Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers, Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly, Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z
Thus, while this May-day cheers each flower and tree, Enlivening earth and almost cheering me, I half forget the mouldering moats of Leigh. The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:25.173Z
The area under the pews, and in the aisles, is paved with gravestones, and a fetid, musty smell floats through the damp and mouldering interior. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z
A rotten rope, and the mouldering state of the wall which should have upheld the enormously heavy wooden frame, had done all the evil. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z
They are of different sizes, turned by the moulder, with the assistance of a boy, who is employed in keeping the lathe in motion. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z
Shall these sticks, which mark the nation’s sacrifice, moulder into dust, and with their brief inscriptions be swept away by the winds of the world, and all traces of this heroism, this martyrdom, lost? Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z
The spirit he saw not, he could not hear The comforting word she spake in his ear: His heart in the grave with her mouldering clay No welcome gave—and she fled away.  The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z
In one corner lay a mouldering heap of skulls, bones, and other fragments of mortality; in the other a pile of broken coffins, emptied of their tenants, and reared on end. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z
The mouldering pile nourishes a circle of young trees, full of vigor, because they have the large tree's roots gathering food for them. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z
My fancy then roamed into the little churchyard, where I took a view of each mouldering heap, with the tombstones at the head and foot, every epitaph on which I had committed to memory. The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z
Diligently improving the auspicious moment, he collected the dusky and mouldering manuscripts from the monasteries, while his coadjutors sent vessels to gather them from abroad. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z
Very little, I found, remained of its ancient castle, only a crumbling corner or two, only a few morsels of mouldering ruin, which makes one sad to think of. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z
The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured; walls blotched, and bare of plaster here and there; high crevices unstopped, and widening every day; beams mouldering and tending downward. The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home 2011-10-02T02:00:12.587Z
For some time they groped along, frequently stumbling over the stones which had fallen from the mouldering walls, and trembling lest this passage should lead them into danger. Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1/2 2011-09-27T02:00:20.260Z
The prospect of its mouldering ruins, forces upon the mind a melancholy train of reflection on the instability of all human institutions. 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
But the trees die and moulder into soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z
See you not there the dispersion of our poor mouldered beings? The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z
The old cross was mouldering; and a new one, twenty-five feet high, was prepared, in which were encased some relics of the holy virgin of Caughnawaga. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z
Let the soul vanish, and the body moulders into the inanimate dust from which it came. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z
On exposure to the atmospheric air the other bones soon mouldered away. 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
I dare not apply this, but history will when I have mouldered, and you too, and our passions are quite gone. The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle 2011-09-12T02:00:28.837Z
We are all shapers of each other's character, moulders of each other's destiny. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z
Thence we were led to a still murkier and more mouldering room, inhabited—nay, infested—by some ten Arabs. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z
As a rule, they have been more conservators of the past than moulders of the future, clinging with grim tenacity to the traditions and teachings of the early fathers. Abraham Lincoln's Religion 2011-09-03T02:00:20.697Z
Folk little think how cruel such treatment as this is, but the time is coming when they will know, although my poor bones will then be mouldering in the dust. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z
When I'm gone and mouldering away in my felon's grave it will be too late then, and you'll be sorry. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z
This central forest was really the vault of the long-forgotten, dank, mouldering, dark, abandoned to the accumulations of eld and decay. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z
Alone it hangs Over a mouldering heirloom, its companion, An oaken chest, half eaten by the worms. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z
Yes, dear, you may drag in those moss-grown and mouldering old officials as much as you please to show me that it isn't only a pack of women, but I'm not in the least impressed. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z
Respect for Jewish prejudice prevented the Romans from leaving it to moulder on the cross, and the approaching Sabbath was not one to be polluted. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
“Why on earth do you let the book lie here mouldering?” World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z
I was only labelling and pigeon-holing a thought; it is to be laid away to moulder with the dust of ages.” Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z
He prated of its mouldering beauties often, forgetting that it was lauded by his townsmen long before the Knickerbockers entered its portals. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z
Descend yon hill, near woods so desolate, With upward gloom, and tangled undergrowths, And shadows mouldering in the brightest day. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z
This was Georges Barr�s, a moulder in the new big gun factory. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z
For, as the bones within would, in process of time, decay and moulder into dust, the loose walls, having no cement to hold them together, would gradually settle in upon the ashes of the dead. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z
Marble columns may, indeed, moulder into dust, time may erase all impress from the crumbling stone, but their fame remains; for with American liberty it rose, and with American liberty only Can it perish. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z
Peace had fallen upon the earth, and in Lady Tyron's mouldering parlor the vials of a foolish pride were despoiled forever. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z
Next to heredity is environment—the moulder of mankind. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z
He ran me in, and locked me up, to moulder in a cell, The reason why he used me thus, alas! Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z
"Ay, who is left but Wyanokee and these mouldering bones beneath, of all the proud race that once trod these plains unchallenged, and free as the water that bubbles at your feet." The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z
These records and the mouldering headstones of village grave-yards are the herald’s office of the fathers of New England. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z
It was a beautiful morning, but the surrounding woods and the mouldering autumn leaves were white with hoar frost. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z
The sacredness of the place where his pictures moulder and grow black will protect him from vain tongues which would criticise and discuss his work. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z
She had long been mouldering in the grave, and not a laurel had ever been laid upon it. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z
All that remain of them—the so-called Mound-Builders—are mouldering skeletons. History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life 2011-07-12T02:00:34.217Z
This monument may moulder away; the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea; but thy memory shall not fail!” The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z
Aye, it was rotten and mouldering--this cross--it must crumble--the corruption of the world had infected and undermined it, and this had happened in Oberammergau--under his management. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z
We die, and our bodies moulder to dust; but not a single atom of them is lost; they serve to nourish the earth, whence, while living, they drew their support. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z
But not till the greater part of us is mouldered away. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z
Langibby Castle rears its mouldering battlements on the brow of a bold hill, completely overspread with wood.  A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z
Their forms seemed to linger, long after the forms that cast them had mouldered into impalpable dust. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z
Claverton lifted his companion from her saddle, and pushing open the mouldering door, which creaked with an unearthly noise on its rusty hinges, they stood inside. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z
Poor devils! condemned by the brutality of obsolescent laws to moulder in captivity in expiation for pitiful debts. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z
That was good enough to moulder in the grave. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z
What mouldered skins, that will never see day-light again, and that, with a good herald, would vie with Westminster Abbey in holiday entertainment. The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts 2011-07-02T02:00:12.813Z
The descendant of those who had made the hall ring with social mirth now mourned in its ruins, and hung his harp on the mouldering battlements.  Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z
In vain I speak, in vain the tear Bedews the mouldering clay, My deep complaint they do not hear, I may not longer stay. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z
When the fairest of all earthly things was mouldering in the dust, should he not have freed himself from the entanglements of the less beauteous things remaining? Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z
Accordingly, after many years, when the term of consignment was expired, and it might well be supposed that Jean Bouchon had mouldered away, his grave was cleared out to make room for a fresh occupant. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z
As a result, Spain was filled, in a few years, with a poverty-stricken and starving clergy, and ruined churches and mouldering abbeys were to be seen on all sides. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z
Between the swamp and the houses stood a fortified wall, from which projected many poles bearing mouldering human heads. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z
The parents, who had then retired to rest, were now mouldering in the grave. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z
The venerable trees, the moat filled with nettles and rubbish, the broken fences, green stagnant waters, the gabled, turreted, many-windowed, mouldering mansion, a perfect medley of chaotic architecture. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z
Or when thy purse dries up, thy palace moulders, Reap the far star-gold of the vaulted sky? The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z
I turned sick and faint as the wires which had pressed those mouldering bones were bound against my face and head. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z
Ah! my dear Christian, is it not because in this church those who once lay upon your heart and mine are mouldering into dust? Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z
It lay mouldering, like something lost and forgotten, slowly rotting in the swamp. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z
But after a year it will force its way out of the mouldered heart. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z
See, mouldering stone and metal’s rust       Belie the vaunt That man can bless one pile of dust       With chime or chaunt.’ Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z
The structure itself, a cluster of rather slender wings, rises from behind its dark walls with an element of grace, in contrast to that chill, squat, mouldering pile which begot and bequeathed the historic name. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z
The grave hillock and the mouldering body are each a world of powers at work. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z
The existence of these pages, written with laborious care by the hand which has long since mouldered into dust, makes a living link across the centuries with Columbcille the Beloved, the great Apostle of Scotland. Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland 2011-05-10T02:00:58.153Z
With such a soul, which had looked into this landscape as into the charnel-house of mouldered days, he returned to the joyous club. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z
For Adam, a mouldering skeleton, Lay bleached on the garden of Eden; And Noah, as white as snow, On the mountains of Ararat.” William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z
To think, that with all the opportunities for adventure that offer in this day and generation, any one should waste time on the idiotic worship of a lot of silly moulders of literary patisserie! The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z
An old man of eighty-two is made to say: From raging storms at sea The Lord he did me save, And here my tottering limbs is brought To moulder in the grave. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z
A knowledge of two trades at least is involved in the work of pattern construction—that of the craft itself and that of the moulder and founder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z
Wherever this sort of coast is, it diminishes considerably every year upon the breaking up of the frost, which moulders away a great part of it. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z
On the second side it is skirted and overlooked by tall irregular houses, and on the third side by the deep buttressed recesses of the chapel, venerable with ivy and mouldering grey stone. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z
My own instinct would be to say: Let poor Miss Savage, out of whose painful and imperfect existence so much "copy" has already been made, sleep on undisturbed under her mouldering headstone at Finchley. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z
No; she has built her own monument of good deeds, which will last after marble has mouldered away. Violet: A Fairy Story 2011-04-07T02:00:17.290Z
The shrinkage of metal is a fact which has to be taken account of by the pattern-maker and moulder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z
“Sacked, but not captive,—burned, yet not consumed; Nor on the Dardan plains to moulder doomed.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z
It appears to render this form of the metal harder and less suitable for the purposes of the moulder, but is separated almost wholly when it is converted into wrought iron. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z
And how wonderfully infinite Thy omnipotence, when Thou doest increase the little grain which moulders in the earth, into a hundredfold! The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] 2011-04-02T02:00:09.993Z
The heart of the Prince must here be mouldering in the altar. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z
If the true patriot desire the reward of glory, he must look for it only from posterity—long after his “mouldering bones” have rattled in the tomb. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z
John Flaxman, the father of the sculptor, carried on with repute the trade of a moulder and seller of plaster casts at the sign of the Golden Head, New Street, Covent Garden, London. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z
At the other end is the ancient high altar with a Bible of ages mouldering away beneath a carved crucifix and stained window, and the surrounding walls are emblazoned with Hungerford arms. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z
But all the wizards who failed should be killed and their heads would be hung on the city gates until they mouldered away. Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z
Am I not the Archimime, who, following after, mimics before you the mouldering forms which your soul has buried? Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z
It is as if, in their mouldering dust, the character of the living men was preserved, the one still self-asserting, the other as unpretentious in the eternal sleep as he was in life. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z
My dear son Eugene,—When you unseal this packet, the hand which wrote this brief account of your mother, will be mouldering in the dust. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z
She was dressed in deep mourning; but the piquant smiling face and charming hazel eyes ill accorded with the heavy garments, and the mouldering surface of the crape. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z
Neglect those musty Authors; let them be cover'd with Dust, and moulder on their proper Shelves; and do thou apply thyself to a Study much more profitable, The knowledge of Mankind and of thySelf. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z
The orphans accompanied Mr. Smith, and were delighted with the little chambers that they found in nooks and corners of the mouldering castle. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z
The wild beasts of the forest and fowls of heaven devoured their flesh, and their bones were left to moulder unburied. Key to the Science of Theology 2011-03-05T03:00:29Z
The quaint street, into which the stone stairs led them, follows the mouldering shelter of the old town wall. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z
"Is it quite prudent do you think, Davies?" he said, pausing with his hand on the mouldering knocker. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z
No doubt, he left a happy home and loving friends and, now, he moulders in an unknown grave without even the companionship of the dead. The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country 2011-03-04T03:00:59.137Z
And mouldering now in silent dust, The heart that lo'ed me dearly; But aye within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z
The very birds that build their nests in its mouldering towers have more soul than he. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z
Hoary junipers stretch their moss-grown branches fantastically over the lawn; and at the further extremity of the enclosure rise the mouldering remains of the palace of Zára Yácoob. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z
Here, where all is falling into dimness and dissolution, and we walk in cedarn gloom, and the very air of heaven goes mouldering to the lungs, I cannot remain commonplace. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z
The marsh extended, and instead of the world of varied exuberant life, we lay a long time a mass of steaming, mouldering decay. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z
Her father and mother were dead, and their bones mouldered; their heads lay upon a stone. Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental 2011-02-22T03:00:06.247Z
I turn from the broken columns and gray mouldering walls of old Rome to those fanes, "so ancient, yet so new," in which the piety of centuries has found its enduring expression. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z
Close by, was a fragment of pottery marked by the finger of the moulder. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z
The form of their friend and fellow creature began to moulder.—Nothing remained at last but the more substantial parts of the person once familiar to them. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z
As death hath left thee, so shall judgment find: Thy spirit, with a world of spirits mix’d, Hath left its mouldering tenement behind! Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z
Beneath these rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z
Fierce conflagrations were blazing in many parts of the city, while mouldering ruins and shattered dwellings attested the terrific power of the midnight storm of man's depravity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z
She picked up the skull and ran her bright eyes over the mouldering symbol. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z
To-day it is a coffin-like city with perhaps a couple of thousand pallid, shaking mortals, striving against the marsh-fever, among the ruined houses, and within the mouldering walls of an ancient Gothic burgh. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z
The bodies of men tortured and hanged, of women and children shot or mutilated, will soon moulder away completely in their poor, nameless graves, and then the world will remember them no more. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z
Or enquire of the Priory whose ruins sublime, Shew beauties more soft from the pressure of time, And as their fine forms moulder gently away, Awake veneration and love from decay? A Season at Harrogate 2011-02-08T03:00:10.763Z
He also advocated better wages for teachers, who were the greatest moulders of character in the country. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z
Small towns, with "mighty names," plucked from the ruins of some long since mouldered city of classic fame and memory, are springing up here and there, like mushrooms, amidst the affrighted forests. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z
Could one describe hills and valleys, woods and rivers, sunrise and sunset, buried temples and mouldering Roman walls so that a story should be suggested to the reader? Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z
"If the news that you bring me is not worth my consideration," he cried savagely, "I'll send you to moulder in Le Bouffay or to drink the waters of the Loire." Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z
It is not in London, certainly, that you find anything—except old churches—mouldering in silence, solitude, and neglect. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z
If such notes rang out from the moulders and wielders of the Northern mind, the South would rejoice with joy unspeakable. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z
And while the very monument has mouldered away in Ararat, Buffalo sits throned amid her waters, the Queen City of the Empire State, with the world's commerce at her feet. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z
But look! beside the silent stream, Beneath the alders brown and bare, What is it shines with purple gleam ’Mid withered leaves that moulder there? Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z
The mouldered headboards have given way to the marble slab or stately monument, that records their brief history—that they lived and died. The Court Houses of a Century A Brief Historical Sketch of the Court Houses of London Distict, the County of Middlesex, and County of Elgin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.373Z
Those quaint churches, and many other mouldering relics of the past, in London, are haunted with associations that never can perish out of remembrance. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z
Both books are now slim enough to fit through standard size household letterboxes, avoiding the once common sight of unwanted books mouldering on porches. Why are phone books getting thinner? 2011-01-19T09:49:23Z
He did not take his baleful gaze from Dwight Wade, who had gone apart, and was leaning against the mouldering walls of the Durfy hovel. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z
"From present appearances," replied Mr. Riddle, "a little pile of dust, which some centuries before was a letter——" "I shouldn't be satisfied with anything less than a mouldering skeleton in chains," said Kingsland. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z
I knew the place by the descriptions I had heard, though it was now mouldering, and had gone far into decay. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z
Yews and elms grow in the churchyard, and many a low tomb and many a leaning stone are there, in the shadow, gray with moss and mouldering with age. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z
Thus talking the good vicar led his companion round by the mouldering walls, where they could look down on to the plains. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z
Here and there too, in the midst, were to be seen the mouldering remains of some dark monastic building of a former day. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z
"I hope you've reserved a nice cork-screwy staircase with a mouldering skeleton at the top, for my especial discovery and delectation." Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z
By the light of a guttering candle, whose blowing flame threatened every minute to go out, I saw a wretched pallet drawn up against a dirty and mouldering wall. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z
Here are the nodding elms; here is the yew-tree's shade; here "heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap." Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z
It was a solemn scene as the roughly-made bier was borne by lantern-light through the dark arcade of the forest, and the sailors looked up wonderingly at the strange aspect of the mouldering old pile. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z
His look was like a skeleton, and as soon as he had tasted food, he mouldered away. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z
It means there are dozens of past Glyndebourne performances over which we have no power and are mouldering in vaults somewhere. Opera in cinemas takes off ? and joins the 3D revolution 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z
They were in our tape store, mouldering away. Jagger exclusive 2010-05-14T10:30:00Z
Murky and grim enough to-night is that grand processional walk in St. Bartholomew's church, where the great gray pillars and splendid Norman arches of the twelfth century are mouldering in neglect and decay. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z
Long before it was finished, the hand of Toledo had mouldered in the dust. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies
Its floor was littered with all manner of d�bris, the bones of a deer mouldered in the woodshed, and a family of porcupines had also found the premises available. The Girl From Tim's Place
My soul was like--yes, down below there, there used to be an �olian harp which was left mouldering because my father could not bear it. Magda A Play in Four Acts
Its gloomy appearance was, and still is, in harmony with the surrounding desolation; but it is now no longer the abode of man, and is left, a monument of departed greatness, to moulder away. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15
Yet the pillars must moulder with time, and the fabric fall to the dust. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams
A huge and rugged cross of cotton-wood raised its mouldering bulk before them on their path,—a holy landmark, raised by the piety of the invader, nine months before, while on his march to Tenochtitlan. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico
There is nothing in these subterranean passages now but the mouldering stones and an atmosphere of an earth-impregnated character, suggestive of humanity turned to dust. The Story of Malta
The enraged and hungry Pixinee drank up his blood, and left the dry carcass hung against the wall by broken strands of web-work, to moulder into dust with the silken ornaments of Aranea Hall. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies
You have dragged yourself over mouldering graves, yet when you arose you found something to keep you alive. Woman
Gerda was on the floor, searching among some opened and torn sheets that lay on the mouldering straw. The School by the Sea
Let the laborer assume his proper dignity—know and feel that without him our country would become a barren waste—our improvements moulder in ruins—our nation rush back to original chaos. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Much interest is felt by visitors in the ancient cathedral of the old city, its mouldering monasteries, its convents, its theological school, its hospitals, and its bishop's palace. The Story of Malta
He remembered to have heard of domestic cats who, when the house to which they belong is deserted by its inhabitants, prefer to starve beneath its mouldering roof than to take up their abode elsewhere. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers
A mouldering scent of fading weeds and weather-beaten stones wafted towards me from the brickwork. The Wish A Novel
She was busy with her hair now, but with her mind still on the worm, murmured abstractedly: "'That rotting inward slowly moulders all.'" The Haunted Pajamas
By the side of his moulders the dust of his amiable wife. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
Another ingenious dough moulder, known as the Baker-Callow, works on a rather different principle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis"
Once in the said street, I had no need to ask questions, for I was at once shown a little, low house, roofed with mouldered slate. Yiddish Tales
The artist leaned over the railing and gazed up the canal, whose dirty brown water flowed so sluggishly, that it seemed stagnant and gave forth a mouldering exhalation. The Children of the World
And then King Arthur woke, and woke mid groans Of dolorous knights; and 'round him lay the bones Of many woful champions mouldering; And he could hear the open ocean ring Wild wasted waves above. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems
Can the resurrection of it, now that it has been mouldering for centuries, be seriously looked upon as a step in advance? The Progressionists, and Angela.
Here the pieces of dough coming from the divider are fed into the moulder by a canvas band, and are worked between a large cylindrical roller and a vertically running canvas and leather belt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis"
Many people were buried in easily accessible caves, that their relatives might visit the mouldering remains from time to time. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
But I have him, he can never be torn from me; the happiness of having known and loved such a creature in the flesh and blood, can never pass when the flesh moulders away. The Children of the World
I kicked aside a stone that crushed a skull; When from that mouth that mouldered there, There came as if it were the voice of doom, A haunting cry that chilled the air. The Book of Gud
They formed a perfect wilderness of stately halls, and corridors, and chambers, the very mouldering remains of which strike one with astonishment. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs
A capacity of sixty loaves per minute is claimed for this moulder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis"
Nevertheless the people would seem to have believed that the souls of the dead lingered for a time beside their mouldering bodies before they took their departure for the far country. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
To one oak that lasts for centuries, there are hundreds of thousands of low bushes, which moulder and decay, that this historical representative of the species may grow to an unusual height. The Children of the World
He next took up the earth, and mouldering it with his fingers, placed it on the water, where it increased by degrees until it formed an island in the ocean. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea
With peeling walls and mouldering floor the long, low-ceiled room gaped out before them, littered with fallen plaster and thick with dust and cobwebs. The Riddle of the Night
The first step in this direction was made by the Lewis-Pointon dough Dough dividers and moulders. divider and weigher, which was intended for dividing and weighing out dough ready for the moulding table. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis"
They supposed that the soul still hovered over the mouldering remains and was pleased by such marks of attention. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
The bones of many are mouldering in the soil of France and Flanders. The Irish at the Front
Thy memory will remain bright when that of traitors and rebels lies mouldering in oblivion. An Artilleryman's Diary
The cobwebb’d cottage, with its ragged wall Of mouldering mud, is royalty to me! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
A noble man is he who aims at noble ends—not he who glories in an ancestry mouldering in the dust. Arabian Wisdom
The missionaries saw many mouldering fragments of skeletons. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
There are thousands of mothers in Ireland grieving for darling sons lying mouldering in Flanders, France, and Gallipoli. The Irish at the Front
Or why are the recollections of rebels to be taken down from the gibbet, and embalmed in history, while the name of him who smote the rebellion is suffered to moulder away? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845
Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; Death, of the spirit infinite! divine! Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Or why I do propose to lose my strength, To blanch my hair, to let the gums recede Far up my yellowing teeth, and finally Lie down and moulder in a rotten grave? The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded
Many people in the Taranaki district thought that souls went neither up nor down, but always stayed near their mouldering bodies. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
A fine old bit of mouldering, ivy-grown ruins in the shape of a Martello tower, situated upon rising ground and overlooking the entrance to the inland waters, is sure to attract the traveller's admiring eye. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia
One in particular contained an ancient piano, two daguerrotypes and a heap of mouldering stuffs. Carnival
That touch, with charm celestial, heals the soul Diseased, drives pain from guilt, lights life in death, Turns earth to heaven, to heavenly thrones transforms The ghastly ruins of the mouldering tomb. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Says Irvin S. Cobb: I'd rather have my work read by thousands of people throughout the country than be the author of the greatest classic that ever mouldered on a shelf. The Style Book of The Detroit News
The grave-clothes having been removed, the mouldering remains were wrapped in new blankets and carried in procession, attended by the crowd, to a place where they were deposited on a carpet of leaves. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
The base of one of the towers, mouldering and moss-grown, now only remains. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia
The shower had ceased, but the odour of newly watered herbage hung moist upon the air, mingling with the scent of the firs, and the fungus-like exhalations of rotten and mouldering wood. Haviland's Chum
No mouldering castle-towers hast thou, No monumental columns fallen; No gloomy shadows of the past, No vain and useless strife Becloud thy heavens serene. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine
And mouldering now in silent dust    That heart that loved me dearly; But still within my bosom’s core   Shall live my Highland Mary.” The Cruise of the Elena or Yachting in the Hebrides
But though every record were burned, and every skull mouldered, the English language, as spoken by any ploughboy, would reveal its own history, if analyzed according to the rules of comparative grammar. Lectures on The Science of Language
These elaborations of flight," said Lyone, "are not pursued merely for physical pleasure, but in a mysterious way they are the moulders of the soul itself. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar
Some mouldered steps lead into this cool cell Far as the slabbed margin of a well, Whose patient level peeps its crystal eye Right upward through the bushes to the sky. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series
Attend, ye great, and hear the solemn sound, How short your greatness this proclaims around, Strange that such pride should fill the human breast, Yon mouldering walls the vanity attest. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards
After having risen several hundred feet perpendicularly, I was enabled to form an estimate of the extent of the forest, in the bosom of which sleep and moulder the monuments of the aboriginal Americans. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.
And he went to one of the windows, wrenched off a dry mouldering shutter, broke it to pieces with his bare hand, and piled it in among the green logs. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave"
In December of that year his forces were "mouldering away daily," and he considered that Sir Henry Clinton, with more than twice his numbers, could "not justify remaining inactive with a force so superior." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The neighbouring sparrows, forsaking the crannies of the mouldering walls, came and sat in a row on the window-ledge whence notes came welling forth that gave them more delight than oats or grains of barley. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels
Better covered, were the heaps along the road, seemingly shoved just beyond the gravel shoulders—mouldering mounds which legend said were once machines to ride in along the pavement. Let There Be Light
There was a dark recess extending perhaps three or four yards behind it—to where the cleft ended, and this too, seemed spread with old and mouldering wrappings. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland
It seems wanton; it seems almost criminal," said Mrs. Delansing, with energy, "to keep valuable lace shut up in a mouldering country-house. Hildegarde's Harvest
The portrait and the inscriptions have disappeared; the overhanging canopy has suffered damage; the table is chipped and broken; the base is fast mouldering into irretrievable decay. Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
One dark night, just before the squadron sailed, the ardent lover climbed a mouldering wall to reach the window of the young lady's chamber. Hernando Cortez Makers of History
The only sprout of one of the noblest houses of Sweden must never, under any circumstances, connect himself with the daughter of a condemned and dishonored traitor, whose body must moulder under the gallows.' Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna
Here, then, lay the mouldering remains of the dead King, and here lay the buried gold. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland
"How would you like to find the mouldering bones of Royalist soldiers foully done to death by nasty Ironsides?" The Wouldbegoods
Now he stood between the gray, mouldering pillars of the entrance, and, laying his right arm against the cold stone, pressed his weary head upon it. The Scarlet Banner
For three days and three nights the causeways were thronged by endless processions of the natives bearing the mouldering corpses from the city. Hernando Cortez Makers of History
But if this was the veritable island where the whalers had buried their ivory, why was the boat lying there mouldering on the beach? The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
He lay upon mouldering straw, confined with clanking chains which were made fast to the wall. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist
But his victorious strength grew not From Roma's mouldering ground: With leaves of young Germanic oak Let his young head be crowned. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes
I guess how it was; you found his carcase; Clubin mouldering away in some corner. Toilers of the Sea
The lone derelict, the figure in the mouldering cabin, the—the plan in his pocket! The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam
Only a bit of crumbling wall, of mouldering pavement, remain to tell the story. An American Girl Abroad
Indifferently they heard the drops of damp fall from the roof to the floor, or, when their feet now and then struck against white and mouldering bones, they calmly pushed them to one side. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1
While cloistered Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History
The things, not to speak of the human beings, which lay rusting, mouldering, and putrefying there, were indescribable. Toilers of the Sea
She ventured alone in your mouldering boat--the old one hollowed from a log--to cross the lake. A Captive of the Roman Eagles
Nevertheless, he regarded them with the most affectionate interest, and watched their every movement, even to sucking his mouldering toes and pulling his grizzly top-knot, with the tenderest solicitude. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia
Yes, Pamela, this infant tree Planted in sacred earth by thee, Shall strike its root, and pleasant grow Whilst I am mouldering dust below. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2
In short, I had been dead for a long period, and my body had been buried and mouldering for centuries. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors
Numerous interesting associations cluster around its mouldering walls. Border Raids and Reivers
The popular idea is that when Rosinante yields up the ghost he is buried in some field, or left to moulder into mother earth in the woods somewhere. A History of the Town of Fairfax
There are very old plumbago mines hereabouts, and a group of mouldering stone lions, elephants, and a figure designed to represent that fabulous creature, the unicorn. The Pearl of India
And even the mouldering shrine is rent away, Where, in his warrior weeds, the British Arthur lay. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2
Every uncommon mark in the mouldering stones delighted him, and his thoughts were as much engaged with surrounding objects as the young shepherd seemed indifferent to them. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors
Where Greece, with king on king, Dreamed in her halls; Where Rome kneeled worshiping, The owl now calls, And whispering ivies cling To mouldering walls. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses
One mouldering tower, o'ergrown with ivy, shows Where first Virginia's capital arose, And to the tourist's vision far withdrawn Stands like a sentry at the gates of dawn. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion
Thus she covers up the wrinkles of age with blooming vegetation, screening the mouldering architecture of a forgotten race beneath fresh arboreal and floral beauties. The Pearl of India
He had worked for six years in a foundry learning the trade of iron moulder, and writing poetry as he worked. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations
When all the preparation is complete, the body is laid upon the platform, to moulder or dry up as may be, in the sun, until the robes get off when the ravens may finish it. Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51
To a very great extent, the librarian is the custodian of public morals and the moulder of public men. Why do we need a public library? Material for a library campaign
My heart, like some lone chamber left, Must, mouldering, fall at last; Of hope, of love, of thee bereft, It lives but in the past. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion
On the summit stands a shrine, showing that it was held to be a sacred spot from the earliest ages, probably long before the date when the now mouldering capital was founded. The Pearl of India
I have seen many a mouldering castle, but I remember no single mass of ruin more impressive than this towering square of Rochester. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877.
But let the rose bloom on the mouldering ruins of the palace of some great king—among the temples of Balbec or Syrian Tadmor—and in its beauty, methinks, 'twill be also sublime. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
Do not, my sister, disturb the mouldering ashes of the long-buried past. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part
Round about it every atom of the connecting masonry had mouldered away and sunk into heaps of rubbish below--so that all possibility of reaching the tower seemed to be cut off. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Notwithstanding the present confusion, the general features of its topography are clearly discernible amid the mounds of mouldering material. The Pearl of India
But though the unfeeling body Can equally moulder everywhere, I, still, my birthland nigh, Would have my body lie. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy
Her form was mouldering back to earth in her grave at Fort Arbuckle, while he, well clothed and well fed, was a gentleman prisoner of war in a comfortable lodge in our midst. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas
Stretched on a mouldering abbey’s broadest wall,  Where ruining ivies propped the ruins steep, Her folded arms wrapping her tattered pall,  Had Melancholy mused herself to sleep. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part
In the mouldering boat-house she had found it, and so had claimed it for her own. Rossmoyne
The mouldering ruins of Ceylon were food and drink to him, with which he gorged himself to repletion. The Pearl of India
Truth talked and not lived, rolls on the human heart a stone; consigns sensibility to the charnel-house of sen- suality, ease, self-love, self-justification, there to moulder and rot. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896
A deserted justice-hall, with dirty mouldering walls, broken doors and windows, shattered floor, and crumbling ceiling. Old and New London Volume I
And when she felt the approach of death, she had herself taken to Levetinczy, that she might not be placed in the tomb where God knows who mouldered away under Timar's name. Timar's Two Worlds
Three skulls and three sets of bones were yielded by the soil in which they had lain mouldering Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years
In one of the attics stood a great hasped chest, wherein the dead woman's dresses were mouldering. An Isle in the Water
Why, in contemplating living angels, not dead antiquities;—in basking in the rays of beauty, not mouldering in the dust of ancestry;—in mirth, festivity, and pleasure; not study, pedantry, and retirement.—Oh, The Dramatist; or Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts
I turned back into the house, and with trembling knees went into that chamber where the dusky tapestry mouldered on the walls. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880.
In Book Fifth, Chapter XII, "moldered-away" was changed to "mouldered away", and an extraneous quotation mark was removed following "on the ownerless island?" Timar's Two Worlds
He leaves the ready-made glory of the Swiss mountains to reflect a glory on a mouldering leaf. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century
Just below me, lying on a soft bed of mouldering tinder wood and leaves, was Benvenuto Cellini Carville, simulating profound slumber. Aliens
The earth holds fast The master masons: low mouldering they lie In the hard grip of the grave, till shall grow up and perish A hundred generations. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose
And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly! Home Life of Great Authors
A startling literary prophecy, recently sent forth from our oracular literature, threatens the annihilation of public libraries, which are one day to moulder away! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
Hillocks of mouldering earth heave around him, as if the dead beneath were struggling in their sleep. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters'
Even the Government went a little with public opinion and lopped away a few 'mouldering branches' in 1894. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time
A man with a carpet like this isn’t going to moulder in a semi-detached villa.’ The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston
The peal of soft bells in that mouldering tower seemed to me like unearthly music: my heart thrilled as I heard their singular, melancholy chime. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851.
A voice was heard; a voice was heard; The spirit its summons obeyed; And to sorrowing Friendship still echoes the word While she weeps o’er the mouldering dead. The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835
Greece, greatly eloquent, and full of fame, Sighs for the want of many a perish’d name; And Rome o’er her illustrious children mourns, Their fame departing with their mouldering urns. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors
For if its sprite should walk by night   It better were for thee, That thou were mouldering in the ground,   Or bleaching in the sea. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1
Hidden under much mouldering rubbish in the boatswain's locker were found two deck scrapers, which proved most useful. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography
His fancy, his skill, embraced the human form like the gypsum of the moulder, received the stamp of its absolute being. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion
From his window he commanded a cheerful view of a tall, mouldering wall, once part of the Abbey boundaries, surmounted by chevaux-de-frise, above whose rust-attenuated spikes some plane trees stretched their yellowing branches. The Brass Bottle
Were the bones of any dead civilizations mouldering beneath this strange yellow soil? The Terrible Answer
But peace to his bones, which in ashes now moulder, Had he lived a day longer he'd been a day older. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1
Yes, he would rather have appointed tryst with a phantom abbess, or mist-pale nun, among the wet and weedy relics of that ruined sanctuary of theirs, mouldering in the core of the wood. Shirley
In mouldering majesty sublime, Misty with eld, the mute of time, A castle, dawn-enchanted, there Above th' abyss sheer, shimmering fair, Hung like a perilous dream in air. Ioläus The man that was a ghost
“The Mediæval Age,” he says, “had gathered up its departing energies for this last display of its favourite pastime, henceforth to be consigned without regret to the mouldering lodges of the past.” Needlework As Art
When I am forsaken, He must be my Support; when I am dying, my life: when mouldering in the grave, my Resurrection. The Way to God and How to Find It
Sick with repulsion and fear I looked up, and there, bending over and peering into my eyes was the face, the fleshless, mouldering face of a foul and barely recognisable corpse! Byways of Ghost-Land
You fell, but in your death you were victorious; To moulder in the tomb your form has gone, While through the world your great soul grows more glorious As years go gliding on! The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President
Rarely is the maze broken by a clearing, and where it is so, is seen a chaos of mouldering tree-trunks, uprooted by the frequent tornados, and piled up like some artificial fortification. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846
In the churchyard, "Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,       Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,   Each in his narrow cell forever laid,       The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Select Poems of Thomas Gray
The bodies were gone, they had mouldered away, and the bones had fallen and were laid in the earth or sand beneath, but the gallows remained. The Broom-Squire
I thought of worms; I imagined countless legions of them making their way to me from the surrounding mouldering coffins. Byways of Ghost-Land
Yet I gave an affectionate thought across the ages to the old inmates of the place, whose bones have mouldered into the dust of the yard where we sat. The Thread of Gold
"Then may the bones of his fathers moulder in peace," said the old man, laying his hands on the shoulders of the Englishman. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846
The poet's thoughts turn to the poor; he forgets the fine tombs inside the church, and thinks only of the 'mouldering heaps' in the churchyard. Select Poems of Thomas Gray
Remember you are the maker and moulder of your own destiny. The Heart of the New Thought
Let our drains flow like rivulets, and imagine that light and air permeate those dwellings which now moulder in a loathsome obscurity.  The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed
The woodwork was mouldering, the red cloth of the pulpit hung raggedly down, the leaves of the great prayer-book fluttered about the pavement, in the draught from the door. The Thread of Gold
The baronial arms are emblazoned on the wall; heraldic pomp is keeping watch over the mouldering bones of the now-levelled great. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
Possibly they lie mouldering in the scented darkness of an Egyptian tomb, clasped in the withered hand of some long-dead lover.  A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
The mattock, the coffin, and the melancholy grave admonish us of our mortality, and that, sooner or later, these frail bodies must moulder in their parent dust. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc.
It seemed as if the curtain of romance had been torn aside, and the mouldering skeleton of life had been laid bare to her. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country
He remembered now; this was where he had gone down one day to view the rows and stacks of boxes and vaults of mouldering bones. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life
It suggested to her imagination a giant, mouldering skeleton of some dreadfully evil creature. The Law-Breakers
By common consent we editors are called the "moulders of public opinion." Commercialism and Journalism
In consequence of this, the hills are cut away at their bases by the current, so that their slopes are interrupted by precipices mouldering to the water. Modern Painters Volume I (of V)
We are told that in 1797 the coffin was found beneath the tomb, with the apparel partially mouldered, but the remains all gone. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel
He was old, though not mouldering, before the Mayflower touched American shores and brought there avatars, grave and civilised as ever founded nation. Another Sheaf
Spare them, each mouldering relic spare, Of God's own image; let them rest, Till not a trace shall speak of where The awful likeness was impressed. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition
My head would long ago have been mouldering on the posts of thy father’s palace had it not been for Ivan Golik. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
A few years ago, the south transept was restored; but the ornamental part was worked in such bad stone, that the crockets of the pinnacles have already begun to moulder away. Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
And there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds; While ever and anon there fall Huge heaps of hoary, mouldered wall. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel
High o’er the sea-surge and the sands, Like a great galleon wrecked and cast Ashore by storms, thy Castle stands A mouldering landmark of the Past. Italy, the Magic Land
Now, where the mouldering turrets Of the outer gate arise, The knight gazed over the ruins Where the stag was lost to his eyes. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition
Every semblance of the beauty lines, which, in the earth’s mature completion, it had worn, had vanished, and only mouldering remains were left. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills
The lock held fast and, as Helge tugged fiercely at the mouldered gate, suddenly a sculptured image of the deity, rudely summoned from his ancient sleep, started from his niche above. Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas
Sandwich lingers as it existed in the Plantagenet days, time having mouldered it into quaint condition. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel
No window lit with lamp or face, No breath of smoke from gables vast, To touch with life the mouldering place! Enamels and Cameos and other Poems
Their bones moulder in a distant land, where the tombstones cast no shadow when the fierce sun looks down at noon upon their graves. Leading Articles on Various Subjects
At length they left the mouldering skeletons behind them, and the gracious, waving, tawny grass of the plains opened out before their gladdened eyes. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills
But their dominion seldom begins till themselves are mouldering in their graves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844
The most important of all the castles in the middle marches of Wales was Ludlow, whose grand ruins, mouldered into beauty, stand upon the river Tame, near the western border of Shropshire. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel
When others wait the rising sun, He from his mouldering parapet Still contemplates the valley dun, Where he beheld the red sun set. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems
Of this magnificent creation of art, only the mouldering remains are now visible. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
He made his way along the foot-path which wound its way through the pine bluff, in the midst of which the old fur fort lay hidden inside its mouldering stockade. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills
Midst silent halls and mouldering towers, And trophies fallen from side to side, Awe-struck, I saw a few brief hours, The grave of Venice' ruined pride. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848
No enterprise was too vast, no detail too trivial, for the attention of these moulders of Germany’s destinies. England and Germany
The secret of the tomb must be preserved, though the masses of Christendom have ceased to believe in the long and mouldering sleep of the centuries before the summons to the Judgment. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war
That life was the form of her new body; otherwise it would have been a carcase lying prostrate in the dust of mouldering theatres and desolated baths. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I
That hand to dust hath mouldered long ago, Yet its creations with immortal life still glow. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848
In the red desert moulders Babylon, And the wild serpent's hiss Echoes in Petra's palaces of stone And waste Persepolis! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848
But by that time he probably would be mouldering in the rocky dust of the asteroid. Acid Bath
One remarkable instance will illustrate the manner in which Montesquieu supported the opposite principles, that institutions are moulded by the character and circumstances of nations, not the moulders of them. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845
The task of popularizing any form of knowledge falls primarily to the educator, the journalist and the other moulders of public opinion. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation
Massena conceiving any attack upon our lines to be hopeless, as his troops were rapidly mouldering away with sickness and want, at length began to withdraw them nearer to the source of his supplies. Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815
I have prayed for this, again and again, and now it has come to pass—when the grave closes over my mouldering remains, my child will have a home and a mother still! Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848
We passed neither tree nor shrub for miles—I include the whole space from Glen Coe—yet we saw perpetually traces of a long decayed forest, pieces of black mouldering wood. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
The poet Byron pictures this divinity as sitting sorrowing midst mouldering ruins and withering leaves. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character
The gaoler told the snub-nosed page all about it when he took him his dinner of green water and mouldering crusts. Oswald Bastable and Others
In many parts of this extensive enclosure we met with massy coffins lying upon the surface, some new, others newly painted, but none in a mouldering state. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton
Like the ones that his fancy had put in the mouldering hutch at home. Harding's luck
The ruins of Dryburgh are much less extensive than those of Melrose, and greatly inferior both in the architecture and stone, which is much mouldered away.  Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
He stopped for a time to explore a little rustic church, that stood, in a careless mouldering dignity, in the centre of a small village. Beside Still Waters
We stand amid three generations of mouldering ancestors, and beneath these is the sacred mould of older generations still. Wild Life on the Rockies
The lime soon mouldered away; and by that means, instead of procuring the architect the honour with which he had flattered himself, served only to discover to future ages his mean fraud and ridiculous vanity. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
The latter, as is well-known, now lie mouldering in the lumber-room of the fort at Agra, for their authenticity is absolutely indefensible; but the mace could nowhere be found by the British plunderer.  Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement
We now came under the steeps by the sea-side, which were bold rocks, mouldering scars, or fresh with green grass.  Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
Every inch of that soft chalk had been made up by the life and death, through millions of years, of tiny insects, swimming, dying, mouldering in the depths of some shapeless sea. Beside Still Waters
The best arrangement according to him would be, if Parliament were held so often that the irregular power which could not be broken at once, might by degrees 'moulder away.' A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)
It is full of characters—alas! now, with only two exceptions, mouldering in their coffins! Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
While doing this, his eyes were fixed on a crevice in the tower, from which was hanging a little iron cage containing the mouldering remains of a human skull. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
The lock held fast, and, as Helgé tugged fiercely at the mouldered gate, suddenly a sculptured image of the deity, rudely summoned from his ancient sleep, started from his niche above. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
Since they ceased from their labors empires have risen and fallen, countless millions of our race have vanished into eternity, and left their bodies to moulder into dust. Hebrew Literature
The place is so dark that it is difficult to read the inscriptions on many of the mouldering monuments, fixed together without order or symmetry on the walls. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
Doating passion, pain of heart, terrible suggestions of despair, kept altering her countenance as she leaned against the mouldering door-post, imprisoned by the black mists that prevented her safely leaving the hovel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
We see also the grey mounds of the Nuraghe scattered over the plain, some mouldering down to its level, a few still rearing their truncated cones, like solitary watch-towers, for which they have been mistaken. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
Many of the houses were, at this time, unoccupied, and mouldering away; yet there were a few good buildings, inhabited by French, English, Scotch, and Irish, and emigrants from the northern parts of America. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe
Why repair their mouldering dwellings, or renew the falling fences of their fields, or replace their dying olives with young trees, or even patch their own ragged garments? Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
At one side lay a heap of mouldering bones, in the opposite corner a huge wooden chest. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure
The little hoard of gold pieces, however, stored in a concealed recess of her former apartment, and the mouldering ruins of the peddler under the ash tree, gave evidence to the truth of her narrative. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
There was the vast vault, dimly lighted by a single wax taper; around were many black and mouldering casks containing the juice of the grape, some of which was of a great age. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life
The state of preservation in which most fossils are, instead of having mouldered away, foreshadows immortality. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
Now all is over; and where the "Queen of the Po" had been, there sits on the darkened plain a poor city, mouldering into dust, with the silence of a sepulchre around it. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
Like Delhi, the city presents many evidences of its former splendor, with ruins still architecturally grand and beautiful, though rapidly mouldering to dust. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
I lingered on the hill-side considerably longer than I ought; and then, hurrying downwards to the beach, passed eastwards under a range of abrupt, mouldering precipices of red sandstone, to the village. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Cobwebs and mouldering walls were the principal ornaments left. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father
There is everywhere that glen scent of mouldering leaves, so sweet when the wind comes down and stirs it, and the sun frees and livens it. Tatterdemalion
It was a vast barn-looking, cavern-like place, with mouldering Corinthian columns built into its massive wall, and its roof hung so high as to be scarce visible in the darkness. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
Some of them have been willfully broken, others have mouldered away from atmospheric exposure. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
And there survived mouldering skeletons and a frightful tradition, to tell the history of their choice. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Yet St. Catherine's, in the days before pilgrimages ceased and shrines were left to moulder, perhaps heard as many Aves as her sister chapel on the hill beyond the Way. Highways and Byways in Surrey
Under the lofty Adirondacks his body was mouldering in the grave when Lincoln proclaimed liberty to the slave, "But his soul was marching on." John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.
Of the many beautiful edifices that stood around this plain, not one remains entire: a few mouldering columns, half buried in rubbish, or dug out of the soil, only remain to show where temples stood. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
In closing, let me say that Time, Experience and Work are the moulders of all individuality. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression
I have now little doubt that it was first brought into the cave by the poor child amid whose mouldering remains Mr. Swanson found it. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
The bark stands in distinct layers, the outer ridges mouldering away, like the fragments of a wall of some ruined castle. Highways and Byways in Surrey
One old idea, one mouldering form of prejudice after another, is rapidly swept away. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
I thought, while I lingered there, of all the fine things it takes to make up such a monarchy; and how one of them is a superfluity of mouldering, empty palaces. A Little Tour of France
Therefore it is better for us merely to sketch the period in outline, dwelling only on its greatest poets and philosophers, the moulders of its character. Jewish Literature and Other Essays
The mouldering and moss-grown base of one of its towers is all that now remains. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands
The stocks stand at the churchyard gate, mouldering, but they are there. Highways and Byways in Surrey
For on all sides there are great mouldering unfinished villas, barrocco casinos, even fifteenth-century small palaces, deserted among the fields; and everywhere monumental gateways leading to nothing. The Spirit of Rome
She is extraordinarily beautiful, and is, under the white covering, dressed in a fashion resembling the mouldering portrait which they have seen in the gallery. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
The mouldering earth is lightly scattered over the coffin, and the tomb is deserted by survivors. The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.
You have murdered the old shames, you have torn down the ancient and mouldering churches. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
These lines point to a minor change in the social arrangements of London, which began with the century, and was still in progress when Erskine had for years been mouldering in his grave. A Book About Lawyers
"But you have the newspapers," we remarked, horrified to think of a young intellect rotting and mouldering away in such a manner. Through Finland in Carts
Yet dreary, Nanna, is the life they lead In that dim world, in Hela's mouldering realm; And doleful are the ghosts, the troops of dead, Whom Hela with austere control presides. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
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