| 单词 | rot |
| 例句 | Stunned, I lay upon the decaying earth, fingers clutching rotting leaves, a cold rain drenching me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In a few days, the scent of rotting flesh would drive us out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z George could feel the cat right behind him; he could smell its breath, like rotting meat. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Cold Storage, like somewhere a corpse would be put to keep it from rotting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z ‘And when their spears have rotted and rusted, long still may their mound stand and guard the Fords of Isen!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Over the last shelf of rotting stone the stream gurgled and fell down into a brown bog and was lost. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “If you do anything to hurt our son now, God help me, you’ll go to jail until you rot. Do you understand me?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z His breath stank of rotting teeth, and snot pooled at the edge of his nostrils. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was gone—buried and rotting and cold—but he lingered. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This place stinks like rotting wood, and the floorboards creak like they are going to crack open under us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Any bacteria planning to rot my taters will die screaming. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aunt Florentine said it would rot his teeth,” I said. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "He will lead no armies while he rots in a dungeon under the Red Keep." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away and he could not find it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When it came early and lasted so long and poured down so hard, the manioc hills melted and tubers rotted away from their vines, and finally the downpour brought us the kakakaka. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The cap’n didn’t have to worry none ’bout me wanting to stay in the city; this place had already died and was jus’ a rotting corpse. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Darin ignoring us to draw Scholar women flinching from Masks and children fighting over a rotted apple in the gutter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed a simple concrete building, the faded paint of LA Poste barely visible on top of the vivid black and green of rotting concrete. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Then I shall rot in here,” the former Grand Elder huffed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The lifeboat, the raft until it was lost, the tarpaulin, the stills, the rain catchers, the plastic bags, the lines, the blankets, the net—all became worn, stretched, slack, cracked, dried, rotted, torn, discoloured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The wooden keep was gone entirely, rotted away a thousand years past, with not so much as a timber to mark where it had stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There’s no rot on this clean new hundred years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "I am not going to listen to that sort of rot from you, Michael." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “She has thrown her face into the eastward-flowing stream. Her ancestral spirit is lost forever. The person you see is just decayed flesh, evil, rotted to the bone.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The dimly lit corridor smelled of flowers and of furniture polish, with just the slightest tang of formaldehyde and rot beneath the surface. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z But now that Miss Hilly put her own maid in jail to rot, I wonder what that lady’s going to do to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Everyone in the squadron knew that Kid Sampson’s skinny legs had washed up on the wet sand to he there and rot like a purple twisted wishbone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah. Nothing like rotting meat to improve the day.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Along the dirt roads, the gutters were filled with small rivers of filth and debris that smelled of rotting food and rank liquids. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I can eat haphazardly now, snack on junk food and takeouts without worrying about balanced meals, go to bed when I like, let my dirty laundry rot, neglect the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As always, the air was filled with the smell of rotting whale carcasses and the sound of elephant seals bellowing and belching on the beach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Give him Honeytree and its hives. All that sweet will make him fat and rot his teeth.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The only one who had not lost for a single minute the awareness that she was alive and rotting in her wormhole was the implacable and aging Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Pong opened the lid and gagged at the rotting smell of old durian mixed with old bananas, old orange peels, and old eggshells. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It’s a musty closet with rotting food and maggots. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We came upon a capsized dinghy in the mud, mostly rotted, and barrels half-sunk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z When you walked through the orchards, the air was thick with the sickly-sweet smell of fruit rotting on the ground. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I would think of my mother sitting in her wheelchair and rotting alive, and that gave me the tenacity to stand up and start walking, even if it was with the aid of curses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The rotted screening from the back porch lay on the concrete terrace. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “The thing is rotted away from the wall.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z A bleak season came upon the island—a rotting monsoon or a parched summer—and fruit supplies dwindled drastically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But it was strange how life connected up; because I had carried Mr. Norton to the old rundown building with rotting paint, I was here. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits had rotted out of the wood at the base of the door, as if someone had kicked at it in unappeasable anger. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It waren’t like a rat had curled up in a hole somewhere and died then commenced to swelling up and rotting, but it waren’t far from that. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Stark is dead and rotting, and naught to me, he reminded himself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The smell of his own vomit and the rotting garbage filled his head, and he retched until his stomach heaved in frantic dry spasms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I raised my head to the rain, to wash my face and clear the nasty stench that lodged in my nostrils, as if my insides were rotting. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Aunt Lydia would never have used an expression like crotch rot. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Because nothing helps you make friends faster than a rotting corpse with a French accent.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The walls and ceilings were peppermint, and here and there, you’d see a bit of fishing net, or a rotted piece from a boat stuck up high near the cornicing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z There is just moonlight now, in the mill, and the musty smell of rotted grain hangs in the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I didn’t want to bring this up, but you owe me one. You’d be rotting in a Cyclops’s cave in the Sea of Monsters if it wasn’t for me.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Their smiles went sour as the room filled with the sweet, acrid smell of rotting flowers and burning hair. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z After a queasy moment in which I imagined some twisted cannibal leaping from the shadows with knife in hand, I realized they were only coats rotted to rags and green with age. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Our cabin is always smoky—it doesn’t even have any windows—and it has begun to leak in heavy rains, but it is still a lot better than a rotting tent. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I was free now to let my teeth rot or to put my feet up on the backs of seats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Their parents crawled out of tin-and-tar-paper shacks and into the stench of sewage and rotting seaweed from the mudflats to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Buffalo descended, and the town of Bumba appeared, a rotting tropical port spread out along the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's all rot to talk about it. Michael and I understand each other." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Things you never would see in my neighborhood, unless you counted Mrs. Wilson’s rotting “deck” made of two by fours, which she began to put together herself but never bothered to finish. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “The turkey”—Trotter was almost sobbing now— “Fifteen dollars and thirty-eight cents, and I let it go to rot.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It was good, despite the odor of rot that smoked up from it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z About the compound yard were strewn empty beer cartons and bottles, papers, rotting porridge, rags, overturned trash cans, overturned nightsoil buckets, ash from burnt peat and coal. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But even bacteria do anaerobic glycolysis, which is why apples rot: lunchtime for the microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The left bank was a great rubbish heap of rotting weed among the trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Nergal is being devoured by the very plagues he spreads. He is literally rotting away. He's dying." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “What for? There’s nothing here. You can just rot here.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell was one of rot, some musty rot that made him think only of graves with cobwebs and dust and old death. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z My breasts are fingered in their turn, a search for ripeness, rot. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The first week he vomited daily from the stench of the feces and offal and rotting meat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His uniform barely fit, and his locker forever smelled like the rotting food he squandered. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The Folk do not rot the way mortals do. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Past the musk of rot, I thought I detected another stench worse than the first. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Now they had broken altogether, like a rotted rope. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What remains of the rotted hash is hidden in the hole I dug for it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Are you dedicated enough to save a mind rotting right before your eyes? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dead fish and gooey vegetable matter were exposed and rotted, while swarms of insects droned in the heavy, humid air. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It resembles rotting chicken livers left out in the sun for too long. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That prevented the laborers from coming to work, and left vast quantities of mangoes, bananas, pineapple, garlic and ginger rotting slowly on the premises of Paradise Pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “What absolute rot!” the Centipede said, but his voice seemed suddenly to have become a little shaky, and he wasn’t laughing. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I had visions of art supplies, posters and rotting fruit everywhere. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In our last apartment, pre-Lenny, the countertop was rotting around the edges, so you’d realize halfway through washing dishes that water had been pooling downstream into the carpeting. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The old man picked up the long fork and deftly placed its two rotting tongs at Ignatius’ throat. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t honestly imagine her as anything but dead, her body rotting in Vine Station, the rest of her just a ghost alive only in our remembering. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z "And your teeth have obviously infected your tongue. Riddles and rot, that's what your talk is!" Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The heavy air of evening, putrid with swamp rot, smelled fragrant. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Fidelito chirped and warbled about rotting whales all the way back to the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the surgeons believed that infections came from foul air, called miasma, which contained poisons given off by rotting plant or animal material. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It made her think of rot—of old garbage left out in the sun, buzzing with flies, crawling with rats. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Ignoring the spines of an overgrown rattan, she wedged herself up against a rotting log shrouded with moss and air plants. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The one had a piece chipped off where the wood was rotted through, the other had a long split in it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z This creature, man...this creature was a collection of rot on four legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z "If I had killed you, I could leave you here to rot," he said. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Mold couldn’t smell any worse than rotting flowers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was a window into another grave—one that had the dusty remnants of a rotting body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And he likes the real sugary kind., the ones that make your teeth rot, at least according to my mom. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was almost as if he had chunks of rotting egg salad sandwiched between his teeth. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I prayed that the food hadn’t all rotted in the summer heat. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Down on five. Smells a thousand times worse down there, but that’s where the water line is. It’s like rotting fish and humans. I hope you haven’t eaten in a while.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Even in the snowstorm it smelled of salt and tar and more faintly of diesel fuel and rotting lumber. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A wooden keep could be seen beside the water, rotted and overgrown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I threw them into the kitchen fire, along with the mouse carcasses and rotted potatoes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In a flash of steel, Cain had his blade at Grave’s throat, and the pockmarked assassin bared his rotting teeth at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Ruthanne sat down, her back against a rotted tree trunk, and opened a knapsack. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z "My guess is your god of rot will not be hiding in high society. He'll be among those less fortunate. The ones already struggling." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Dead meat, dry blood, a faint whiff of rot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The cooler air and stagnant water smelled of mud and rot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Foulke told of other deaths along the street and said he knew the origin of the fevers: the repulsive smell in the air caused by the rotting coffee on Ball’s Wharf. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The trashman turned them down another canal, then another, picking up more baskets of rotting garbage before returning to the wide highway of traffic on the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Once she saw him cure a dog of excessive howling by pulling a single badly rotted tooth. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z And I do not know whether the sun will rot or dry what is left, so I had better eat it all although I am not hungry. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He grinned at me, revealing a mouthful of prematurely rotting teeth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe they would just rot into the ground to help the grass grow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He brushed away the trash and rotted bits of screening from the cover. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Cluny’s long tail swished restlessly, the single eye stared at a carved eagle holding the rotting lectern on its outspread wings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Vultures would find the bodies and strip them of their rotting flesh until only the bones remained. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Made of rotted wood and abandoned shackles,” she read aloud. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z "Darling, don't let's talk a lot of rot." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z With the weather turning colder we can’t keep sleeping in our rotting tents. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The landing two stories up was half-filled with black plastic garbage bags and it smelled of rotting vegetables. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z There were no trees to speak of in Battle Mountain, but one corner of the dump had huge piles of railroad ties and rotting lumber that were great for climbing and carving your initials on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “On the porch,” Tiller said, “but we’re going to have to figure out how to get that other bucket out. Don’t want it rotting in the water.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Our friendship seems like rotting fruit trying to hold on for one more day, begging for anyone—anything—to save it from complete spoil. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The flesh was green and rotting, and the ear tore off between his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I felt like a rescue worker, plucking faces from the debris, brushing away glass and wood rot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I eat at other people’s tables but won’t invite them to mine, where the dishes are rotting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon he had become a formless, unidentifiable heap of something that smelled of rot. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But one day, even his tattoos would rot away—the images of horned whales, beautiful women, disappearing islands—and nothing would be left of him but the whispered legends of things he’d done. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His sodden green cloak had hung up on a rotted log, and a school of tiny silver fishes were nibbling at his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dozens more lay rotting on the slopes, and every third or fourth tree, it seemed, was leaning steeply on a neighbor. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Conditions below were almost unbearable: the stinking, rotting sleeping bags made the air putrid, and the molting hairs choked the men as they tried to gasp for breath. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “That’s not food! Your teeth will rot and a dentist will have to pull them all out! You’ll have to eat soup your whole life!” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Others were leather, with rusted buckles or rotted laces. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was the incomprehensible secret embodied in a whitish toadstool hiding in the dark shade of a rotting log. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Any glass had long since shattered, any wood had rotted, and nothing remained but metal frames, mortar, and stone crumbling in the grip of invading vegetation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But as his body rotted, his character shone even more brightly. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every window was broken and open to the sighing wind, and the rotted wooden floor had holes in it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Immediately Ben began to whimper again, and for a while all of them looked up the drive at the square, paintless house with its rotting portico. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Peering out the windshield, she can see that it’s in meticulous shape—no evidence of peeling or rot, which means it must have been recently painted. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They look around curiously at our rotting tents and the big iron pot hanging over the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The jaw had rotted off her face, and birds had eaten one ear and most of a cheek. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I knew the foam was the inside of some rotting old couch cushion, but I played along. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Once that creaky coffin door had opened, the smell of a thousand years of rotting death drifted out through the thick woven fabric of my clothing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When finally he slept, his dreams were layered over with an awareness of rot and the imminence of terrible danger. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The heart of the tree was rotting away. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Sander looked down at Nick, who lay staring at the rotted ceiling. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The leap had shattered one of his legs, and a jagged piece of pale bone jutted out through the rotted cloth of his breeches and the grey meat beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “He smells like barley rained down and left to rot in the fields. He smells like a wounded mole that can’t get underground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If it had ever held answers about my grandfather—in the form of letters, maybe, or a photo album or a diary—they’d probably burned up or rotted away decades ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Cardan gives me a significant look as she explains decomposition, rot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When her granddaughters return, Celia presses her thumb against the rotting onions, indenting them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled some car rots from the soft, dark earth and we sat down to eat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything around was still dripping, and the air was as wet as a sodden sponge, full of the smells of dank vegetation, of rot, of earth crawling with worms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It looked like a year-round Halloween store, with a few stray ghost decorations on the window and a rotting pumpkin by the entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Which is pure folly: ’tis surely God’s will that fish should rot in the water, but the beasts should rot on the land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z And as if his thoughts had materialized, the smells changed—to something more like mildew and rot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The whole way to our house, I wondered which would rot faster. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They tell us the cigarettes rot your teeth and you can see they’re not lying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Sagging piles of rotted wood and fabric had rebuilt themselves into fainting couches and armchairs, and sunlight streamed through high windows once so grimy I’d thought they were blacked out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Every so often, there is an isolated square of sidewalk with weeds forcing their way through the concrete, or a pile of rotting wood, a collapsed dwelling. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Suddenly a swarm of bluebottles rose into the air with an angry whining buzz, revealing the rotting corpse beneath. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The chaise longue on which Baby Kochamma reclined had crushed peanut shells stuffed into the crevices of its rotting upholstery. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Smells stab my nose—fumes from the road, rotting food from a garbage bin, and others I don't recognize. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Do I offend you, sweetling? I am an offensive creature, as my father would be glad to tell you if he were not dead and rotting.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The pale green buds were sticky with resin and redolent of rotting fruit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly it crumbled under him, and he had to pick himself up and brush rotting bark and slimy, foul-smelling material from his clothing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They snag the tines of the rake and hold them—they don’t like me cleaning out all that rot. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Then came the smells, unlike anything he’d ever known, a sickening combination of vomit, body odor, and rotting meat. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z What sort of mother lets her children rot in darkness? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mother always said that medical drugs are a special kind of poison, one that never leaves your body but rots you slowly from the inside for the rest of your life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The ceiling of our shack began to crumble, and the door and wooden window frames began to rot, and in the winter icy winds would whip through. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want it to last— copper nails and hard wood—nothing to rust and rot.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He shoved some scrolls aside to reveal a dusty volume bound in rotted leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the Slammer, they become paranoid, convinced that the Army bureaucracy has forgotten about them, has left them to rot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s called heart rot, did you know that? What happens to a tree when it gets hollowed out.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Petey took a sip, so sweet it nearly rotted her teeth on the spot. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His fight with the Hunters had left him with mottled grey and pink scar tissue on his arms and face, so he looked like a bruised peach in the process of rotting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If there was even just a whiff of rot, no matter how fresh the meat looked, it couldn’t be trusted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Basically, what happens is that your breath literally smells like a rotting corpse. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z His mother thinks he’s nine years old, but she has a poor memory that the drink has rotted; he might be eight, or ten. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Mom fell through a rotted step and went tumbling down the hillside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling was thick with cobwebs, the floor coated in grime; moldy and rotting food lay upon the table amidst a mass of crusted pots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Ifemelu was tired and her back throbbed and the salon had begun to nauseate her, with its stuffy air and rotting ceiling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There was still so much time left for the sun to come out that José Arcadio Buendía was still dozing under the shelter of palm fronds that had been rotted by the rain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A giant three-fingered hand made of rotted wood and rusty metal appeared at the edge of the door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Smells bad, like flesh rotting in the desert sun. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The rowboat had drifted at last to the end of the pond, but now its bow bumped into the rotting branches of a fallen tree that thrust thick fingers into the water. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I dug another foxhole, cutting down through ferns and rotted vegetation and tree roots and mud, the bottom of it would be filled with water by the time I finished. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I took shortcuts, crossed dirt streets strewn with charred vehicles, putrid garbage and rotting dogs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I’ll get you some rotting meat so you can have a proper feast.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Were the soldiers ever going to bury the bodies, or leave them to rot in the open? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Its side had been laid wide open, and in the white-hot light from the moon, I could see bones and the fetid yellow coils of rotting innards. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Well,” Hassan said, squatting down to sit on a rotting fallen tree. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It’s Kaylee Vine making noises as if a pile of rotting fish was just deposited in her lap. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He left the cast on his leg until it rotted off, so that, in the words of horseman Wad Studley, “one leg went north and the other one southwest.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were floors to be scrubbed, grime to be washed off windows, broken chairs and rotted beds to be carried off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Arya had been staying as far from the castle as she could get, yet even from a distance she could see the heads rotting atop the high red walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Give them fifty years, and all that equality rot is gone. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A rotting, glistening hand, slithering back beneath a black cloak...a long, rattling breath from an unseen mouth...then a cold so penetrating it felt like drowning.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Winging to its weathered and rotting peak, she landed gracefully. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Fat flies rise from stinking holes where dead bodies rot beneath smoking ruins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She moved into a small house on Fowler Avenue in the Hayti area, full of rotting floorboards and holes in the walls big enough to allow birds in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Every now and again, a gust of hot wind brought the stench of rotting fish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But they were spoiling, rotting from the outside in, like a pair of peaches in the sun. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the cramped back yards were rotted privies and lines of torn, smoky rags hung out to dry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He folded up the limp and rotting pages. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z That would be like leaving carrots to rot in the ground.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She smelled his rotting leg in Africa, where it would be blown off his body on a moonless savanna night. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My father said never eat anything floating in water for the rot that might be in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Little had I known then that it would attract the god of rot. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The sickly sweet stink of rotting corpses hangs heavy in the air, and every time the wind shifts, I gag. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “And that the nasty vodka you brew in that barn of yours rots you slowly from the inside out!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I know that like I know the smell of a rotting fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Then, around the corner, gliding noiselessly, came dementors, ten or more of them, visible because they were of a denser darkness than their surroundings, with their black cloaks and their scabbed and rotting hands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The lantern flared again, and the smell of old rot nearly choked me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Nhamo broke open a rotted log with the panga and used the soft, dry wood inside to start a fire. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes, saw a sudden shocking memory of death, tom flaps of skin, the black rotted meat of muscle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I expect they’ve let it rot to give it a stronger flavor,” said Hermione knowledgeably, pinching her nose and leaning closer to look at the putrid haggis. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The once-perfect grass was brown and the parts that weren’t buried under piles of rotting leaves were about six inches long. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They gave off a sweet rotting smell as they burned. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings, I heard them tumble from the trees, and it seemed a waste to let them rot under the branches when we could be enjoying them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There were stacks of used car batteries, a rotting bouquet of sympathy flowers with a card from somebody who’d seen his Barbara Walters interview. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But then the bodies rotted and liquefied, and the stink was like roses and mustard gas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It is free of pitch or sap, but its fibers contain chemicals called thujaplicins that act as natural preservatives, making it highly resistant to rot while at the same time lending it its lovely scent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It’s nothing. I’m fine,” I said, pulling potato rot from my hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The anger rose up in her mouth and tasted like rotted meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The steps and porch had rotted long ago. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It choked him like weeds and rot and colonies of vermin, clogging and staining him, stagnant and fetid, so that nothing so noble as love, or—gods above—forgiveness, could ever claim space in him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With a grinding, splintering, tearing crash, Swordfish split the rotted hulk asunder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The jail you plan for me is the one in which you will rot, Isay. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bryan recalled that a week after the shooting he had returned to the scene of the crime with Mollie and her family to identify Anna’s rotting corpse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And how could her body possibly rot so quickly? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And when she tried to pull herself from the tangle of rotting limbs, she’d been dragged down into a pile twenty bodies deep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Fashion and modernity and the rot at the Table’s heart were in hiding, and his great idea was on the move once more. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He raised the sword and brought it down upon the dead man, grunting as the blade sheared through wet wool and rusted mail and rotted leather, biting deep into the bones and flesh beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Whoever had done this had practically gone to Jesse’s grave, dug him up, and desecrated his rotting body. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She cried until Aunty Ifeoma finished cooking the rotting meat in a spicy stew. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The rotting post office is now a little movie theater, for example. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It worked for things like tomato rot, but not for much else. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His nails were yellow-brown, like the inside of a rotting apple, and some of the tips were curling, lifting. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Stumps and dead boughs were rotting in the shallows, the remains it seemed of old thickets, or of a hedge that had once lined the road across the drowned valley. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Trees creaking with apples, fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy sweet smell of apples rotting on the ground and the steady thrumming of wasps around them. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The smell was pungent, like opening a fridge that contained a rotting animal. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He sped along the path that edged the old dark woods where the warm, soft smell of rotting wood filled the air. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z We stood among the decaying, rotting vegetation and faced our enemies. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “You could smell death in the air. The fields were irrigated with blood and men hung from trees like rotting fruit.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The people looked upon each other and they saw their skin rot and fall off. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Eberhardt’s nose crinkled, as if she could already smell something rotting. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her head is split in half and a pink-gray sludge oozes from the fracture in her skull and drips down onto my face, and she stinks of formaldehyde and rotting meat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Clumps of rotting, smelly seaweed littered the beach that the tourists were going to use. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The shadow resolved into a thickly muscled form, slumped against a rotting wall, water up around its waist as it sat, breathing heavily in the darkness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The manager sighed and started down the aisle to where Ignatius was mumbling, “Oh, my God, their tongues are probably all over each other’s capped and rotting teeth.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You did well in Haiti with my money. You think I was going to let my sister rot in the countryside with a new baby in her hands?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Alex wanted to strangle Harvey, choke him so hard his rotting teeth would fly out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The surgeon who removed them told Shawn to preserve his baby teeth for as long as possible, then when they rotted out, he’d be given posts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Turtle had seen the corpse in the Westing house, but it was not rotting and it was not sprawled on an Oriental rug. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the problem with the wasting disease. The whole forest was littered with carcasses that year, just rotting away. We couldn’t do anything with them. Their meat and hides were useless.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Good wool, thick, a double weave, damp but not rotted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Since I saw' you last, you have done nothing but lie around rotting in your room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There, beneath rotting wood and twisted splintered branches, she found her hidden sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mom jumps from the taxi in her sling-back pumps and runs past the giant bird of paradise bushes, past the rotting pawpaw tree, and up the three front steps of Abuela Celia’s house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "It . . . rotted to pieces while I waited, unheard. There's naught left to show but bones." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From fifty feet below, a vile stench hits my nose, like rotted corpses in the summer heat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z During the day, it was filled with colored tents and vendors of all sorts, but at night the barges were flat deserted spaces strewn with bits of trash and rotting fruit rinds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The past, she wrote, whatever it was, ought to be shoveled fifty feet under and left to rot in the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They sat in the rocking boat tied to the rotting wharf, looked down into the slimy green water that smelled of decaying fish, and ate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “For a thousand years it has not shown a leaf. In another thousand it will have turned to stone, the maesters say. Weirwoods never rot.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To punish Haymitch, who, of all the people in this rotting world, has turned Peeta and me into pieces in his Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It's like something dead and rotting mixed with lots of dirty stuff and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Above us was the second-story porch, lined with slanting, rotting rails, and sitting on the porch was the Maginot Line herself. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It hit him like a great wave of rotting matter: rank, malignant, bringing tears to his eyes and making him cough. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight she settled for the warm rotting of a dung heap, where she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, without soon being rescued they were sure to die, because their wounds were so infected their flesh had begun to stink and rot. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All I could think was, There are dead people everywhere and they’re all rotted and bony and dead and, oh God . Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z You live, die, and rot, then something else lives, dies, and rots. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I gathered what scrawny courage I had and waded through waist-high weeds to the porch, all broken tile and rotting wood, to peek through a cracked window. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The reindeer-skin sleeping bags were soaking wet all the time, and beginning to rot. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She gets up and I follow her footsteps as she nimbly avoids the rotting patches of floor. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Under the stench of rotting vegetation, I smelled burning ozone as the air filled with ions. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The gutters run with brownish water; the wooden bridge over the ravine is slippery and soft and has regained its smell of rot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She had finally thrown away her cracked and rotted shoes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I can feel the stuff I don't say rotting inside me like mildewy spuds in a sack. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a stick or an oar to propel the raft, but the rotted thing jerked into motion by itself, floating slowly at first, then picking up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then the bones would scatter, rot, and crumble to become part of the earth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rotting flower petals sloughed off in my fingers as I wheeled forward, sunken to the knees in the muddy water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These could no longer be removed, having long since started to rot; the land, therefore, was unstable and unbuildable. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A small boat sped up to a rotting pier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He kept it directly before him as he picked through bushes and vines and trees, the thick rotting floor of the forest crunching beneath his feet, reminding him of where we all go. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z A fist-sized turtle plopped off a rotting log and Ajax charged clumsily after it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The snake men led them through an iron storm grate at the docks, straight into their underground lair, which smelled of rotting fish, mould and snakeskin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Brown marks appeared as if I were rotting fruit. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Twelve feet tall, its face hidden by its hood, its rotting, scabbed hands outstretched, it advanced, sensing its way blindly toward him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Shot by Artemis, I still might go and see amid the shades Odysseus in the rot of underworld. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Cluny’s tail banged down on the rotting lectern, smashing it into several fragments. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There Jaime and the others spent two days without food or water, rotting in their own excrement, blood, and fear, until they were all driven by truck to an area near the airport. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These corpses couldn’t have been more than a day or two old and weren’t visibly decomposed, but I still shuddered to think of Otto last night, drinking water steeped in rotting flesh. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Stephen’s packets of airplane trading cards, held together with rotting elastic bands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A pigeon corpse on his doorstep was Ralph’s true self come to rot at his feet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At which point I turn to Joe and make some comment along the lines of, “I hope Addie’s brain does not completely rot out on us before the election.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I visited a dentist, who said the tooth had been rotting for years. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Within weeks most of the horses died, their hooves rotting in the mire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I followed the jumping light into the garden, where dry stalks pointed to the skies like scrawny fingers, and rotted, wormy vegetables sank into the cracks of the parched soil. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The wood of the doorframe is all rotted, so it only takes a few blows from Courtney’s boulder-shoulder to get the door open. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z A low hill rises before me, and when I reach the top, the night breeze curdles, bringing with it the unmistakable smells of war—blood and dung and rot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She just leaves him at that hotel to rot. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The stench of rot hung in the air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The woods were deathly still, more forbidding than I had ever seen them—green and black and stagnant, dark with the smells of mud and rot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z While Mr. Morrison talked with one of the police, the men from the hearse maneuvered a gurney up the rotting steps. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z One telegraph boy made his way through the dark to an unlit alley that smelled of rotted fruit and was silent save for the receding hiss of gaslights on the street he had left behind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was like thousands of fish rotting and oozing in the hot sun. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were giving off a very powerful smell of rotting fish. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “If my family could see me now, they’d shoot me. Yes, they would. They were decent people. Except my grandson, God rot his bones.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They crammed them into filthy basements or old, rotting ships. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve smelled rotten eggs? That’s sulfur dioxide, released from the chemical reaction of rotting organic material. This is going to stink just like that.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They fought in the predawn gloom, shadow against shadow, stumbling over roots and rocks, with mud and rotting leaves beneath their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I'm not sure how that will be possible, since you will be rotting in jail for the rest of your days." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Choosing a spot that was a couple feet above the rot, I cut at an angle so the rain wouldn’t set right on it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were witches in the woods, they stole beauty from swans and then rotted from the inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead you used a code word such as “coffee varnish” or “white mule” or “horse liniment” or “monkey rum” or “panther sweat” or “rot gut” or “tarantula juice” when ordering your drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She did not believe herself, but she scrambled up onto the old stage, fingers sinking into the rotting wood as she pulled herself up. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Our streets will stink of rotting litter. We’ll be overrun with rats.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When he woke, he couldn’t smell hay or clover or apples, only coal smoke, and the spongy rotting vegetable stink of garbage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The rotted timbers collapsed and the pickup fell between the girders and then it went through the ice and was gone. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The apple trees are covered with scabby apples, red ones and yellow ones; some of the apples have fallen off and are rotting on the ground. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “They’ll rot like everything else,” she countered with a groan, and dropped her hands down to her side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shadow could smell—or perhaps, he thought, he simply imagined that he smelled—an odor of rot, of flowers and preservatives. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Afterward they gorged, though the meat was rotted and half-frozen, and moved even as they ate it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He rubbed Mimir’s head with certain herbs to prevent it from rotting, and he chanted charms and incantations over it, for he did not wish Mimir’s knowledge to be lost. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “It’s because you’re a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Some of them are nightmares, like hanged corpses rotting in soccer fields with bloodred grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A year later, he was breeding maggots by the thousands, in milk bottles filled with rotting fruit in a third-floor laboratory at Columbia University.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But he is on his guard: he has already had some rot dinned into him about getting a shot in the back. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’d let you rot and use you for fertilizer to help the good ones grow.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I was thinking of the others — you can take your pick. If it weren’t for you, I would be rotting away in the Forks cemetery.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “They created those prisons, so now they should rot in them!” she shouted, not making much sense at all. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Crocodiles could eat meat that had rotted in the water for several days without getting sick. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got here there was a row of rotting dead men hanging from a balcony of the Hotel de Ville, the town hall. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The air was cold and suffused with a strange odor, like clothes left to rot in a flooded basement. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her straight hair was the color of rotting straw. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It is the mother’s not the lover’s lust that rots the mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Black with rot and old tar, they had long since become unrecognizable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “That’s the tree the lightning knocked down,” he said, pointing to what was now only a rotting log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But Celaena was already running, running straight at those black, rotting fangs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Get out of Limerick before your legs rot and your mind collapses entirely. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Even if something was burned up or left to rot away, it did not disappear from the face of the earth; it changed into something else—gases, liquids, and powders. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z More dead jungle ruins flashed past, an astonishing amount of wealth and materials left to rot and fall back to the green tangle of the trees and swamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Jaimito called Lio a troublemaker, accusing him of cooking up plots and then running off to some embassy for asylum, leaving his comrades behind to rot in jail. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as the four of them stepped into the high green and gold grasses, a small orange kitten was worrying a big old hen into a frenzy near a rotting stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The worst bore down upon the Irish in the 1840s, when the potato crop, their food of life, rotted in the ground for four years running, and landlords heartlessly threw their tenants into the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The wood had rotted around the windows, allowing rain to pour inside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We have removed the rot, we are strengthening the foundations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The gnarled tree was dying, split almost to the ground and rotting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole flopped his head to the side and spotted a small caterpillar inching over a rotted branch. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I take it it was a lot of rot.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Where are your hanged man’s rotting noose and icy breath? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The wood is rotting in spots, not to mention covered in graffiti and gnawed away on the corners by forest animals. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There are a few cans of Spam in the pantry, along with some mixed vegetables, and a couple of rotting onions in the refrigerator. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I hope that they both rot in hell. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were laughing like travelers crossing a great river on a tattered rope bridge, finding that the rotted boards beneath their feet were, for the moment, holding. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In the center quad, where the lockers, food carts, and tables were located, the skylights cast a yellowish glow into the room, making everything look sick and rotted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The idea was you were buried with all your favorite things and in a thousand years a relative would dig you up and sift through your rotted remains and stuff. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We sit on her porch, or I watch while she works her small jungle, snapping off dead leaves, forking rotted manure into her camellias, talking under her breath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Cultivation stopped halfway, the fruit rotted on the trees and the hundred-twenty-car trains remained on the sidings. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The clothes he wore would turn to rags, foul and stinking, and he would be made to wear them till they rotted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Slow means less chance of stepping on some rotting board and tumbling to her death; fast means maybe making it to the other side before the whole thing crashes down. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The stink of vomit and the salty smell of rotting seaweed hung in the air, and overhead, a leaf drifted down in slow motion as if arriving from outer space. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Logs, some rotted, some burnt, rush, twisting and bobbing in the water. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I would erase it all: the smell, the rats, the giant mountain of rotting food. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It had been such a rainy May, and the basement felt appropriately cryptlike: cobwebs around the doorframe ghosting our faces, that smell of dirt and rot and trapped air, and it was dark, totally dark. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The roof above them was falling in, the floor below them had places where it had rotted completely away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At first, all I saw was rubble and rot. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I fixed boardwalks and lifeguard chairs and the dock struts rotting away in the saltwater marsh. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an Earth Man’s settlement, built of wood and already rotting into sawdust. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The donkey and especially the toad, the creatures most important to him, had vanished, had become extinct; only rotting fragments, an eyeless head here, part of a hand there, remained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I extended my toes toward the fire to warm them and saw that they were pale and had begun to rot. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The stench of death and dying, of rot and decay, rolled over me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z She loves especially to hear about the dark coasts of South America with their impenetrable walls of trees and offshore breezes full of the stink of rotting kelp and the cries of whelping seals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He found one beside a rotting log and drew in the thick scents of a colony of field mice. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It would wizen up, or grow ripe, or it might rot. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Daily we dug for “hidden treasure” about the mounds of rotting dirt. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Concave faces have the appearance of what they will look like once the flesh rots away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while, people visiting the graves of their loved ones would complain about the smell of another rotting migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “It will be slow. Painful. If you don’t bleed out on the floor, your insides will rot from whatever you catch in the hospital, if they’re not rotten through already.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “No, no, boy. I’m talking about arcanists. Not some poor chill-charmer who works his way back and forth across caravan routes, trying to keep fresh meat from rotting.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One spring a touch of night cold ruined the fruit, another you couldn’t get the fields to dry out and the low-hanging berries rotted. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Perhaps he and I will become dear friends, and you will be left to rot.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z So we’d be leaving half, at least half, behind to rot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He tells me I should go to school and not be like him working away with the two legs rotting under him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We cross the bridge lightly, avoiding the places where the boards have rotted through, on the lookout for men. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A stench had filled the air, like old moss and rotted oak; it was the smell of something dying. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The broad wooden span of the bridge had rotted through, but some of the lamps that lined the way were still aglow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The disease which was rotting his body had eaten away nail and flesh to the first knuckle. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave off a pungent smell, like meat gone to rot, and were filled with white pools. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She could see the gleaming armor of Fae and mortal warriors, hear the clash of shields and the snarl of vicious beasts, and smell blood and rotting corpses all around her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I was afraid he’d flip out when he saw what I was pretty sure was going to be a rotting hole in his shoulder. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be red, but with a reddish-black patch on it, like rot in an apple or a bruise. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He was six years old again, master of a kingdom of gristle and bone and rotting fruit hidden beneath the sawdust in a little room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks at me as if I smell of rotting cabbage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z When he caught the whiff of rot and decay, his hackles rose and he whined. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She looked at the dust-gray rotting curtains, threw them out, and made new ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The huts were closer together here, and close to the edge of the woods, so that they were shaded by trees and smelled of dankness and rot. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheed leaned his bike against a plank, and the rotting wood broke from his slight touch, falling into the cluttered yard. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Kermit’s boots had been rotting off his feet from all the time he spent wading in the river trying to manhandle the canoes. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z All round him was the dank smell of rotting timber. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His shield bore the storm god’s cloudy hand, lightning crackling from his fingers down to a raging sea, but the paint was discolored and peeling, the wood beneath starting to rot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Monday, May 27,1935 As the day of Nat’s interview approaches, my mother behaves as if her nerves have rotted and fallen apart like old rubber bands. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And everywhere the sleepy smell of rotting wood, damp earth and dusty hollyhocks thick and perfumy like the blue-blond hair of the dead. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The moment she had put her foot on the step leading up to the porch, she saw her ripeness mellowing and rotting before a heap of red velvet scraps on a round oak table. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned to jump over the puddles and trash heaps and to avoid rot and mess, to keep my plastic sandals clean. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "What rot! You chaps are brown. Look at Bill." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “I just want you to know that I’m doing this for Lily, not you. As far as I’m concerned, you can rot in hell.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Elsewhere, the exposed laths, themselves rotting away, showed through like the ribs of a starving animal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Familiar scents filled his nostrils: wet leaves and dead grass, the rotted carcass of a squirrel decaying in the brush, the sour stink of man-sweat, the musky odor of the elk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The barbwire could come loose and the fence posts would rot out and need replacing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chokecherry may deny its scandalous past, but you can’t paint over rot. It’s still there, TokNation, and it will always come out.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It’s easy to choose between Bellmont and anywhere else, because I don’t want to end up alone rotting away in a row home drinking myself to death. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Treasure meant gold, silver, and jewels, not dust, spiders, and rotting leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her arm was dead, black from the tourniquet down with a faint scent of rot, but she seemed the most peaceful yet. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An adder bit my cousin in the forest deep, its venom rotting her from the inside out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “My boat will rot away soon if I don't paint it. But you guys don't care, because you're just a bunch of landlubbers! There's always enough money for Hornet's books.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The thick ugly odors of unwashed bodies and rotting flesh from the shallow graves behind the buildings grew stronger. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z John had also split and stacked the wood from a dead maple we’d cut down, and climbed up on the roof to replace some rotted cedar shingles. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So what if there were rotting peaches in the fridge and dirty dishes in the sink? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If the foul smell of rotting coffee could cause health problems, they reasoned, why couldn’t foul-smelling water? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It’s all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But the only boat in view was an upside-down rowboat abandoned on the rocks beneath the inn, its bottom thoroughly rotted out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All we had for dinner was what he’d been able to scrounge out of the garbage: a tin of some yellow-green slop, two rotting bananas, and some moldy rods. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Adam said evenly, “You won’t have to. I’m going away. You can buy me out if you want. You can have the farm. You always wanted it. You can stay here and rot.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The wooden tables had rotted overnight—one had collapsed into sawdust. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And when George, the scholar, came home for some dental work on his horribly rotting teeth, Charles watched him lose consciousness from the chloroform. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Isn’t that part of what got her into this mess, to this place where she is weirdly and surreally standing alone on a high, rotting railway trestle on her eighteenth birthday? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z However, rot grows on even the sturdiest of foundations. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The Bundimun oozes a secretion which rots away the very foundations of the dwelling in which it is found. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the barn was Papa's mound of hay for bedding, nearly as tall as the barn, covered with canvas to keep the rain from rotting it. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z A series of hard frosts had killed the crops they’d planted afterward, leaving only mud and ash and wilted, rotting stalks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hurd knew where he was from the antiquated and dilapidated houses with peeling layers of paint, like a set of yellowing teeth falling from the gums because of rot, exuding the stench of decay. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the same man rotted through and through. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After the rot cleared up, once I could think straight, I devoted a lot of time to figuring ways to get back at him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “One, you refuse to give us the Book and we go home, leaving you to rot in this sewer.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Even closed, the Dumpster reeked of rotting fruit and rancid dairy products. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z If they rotted, I would simply grow more teeth. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I wondered had he rotted down to bones yet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Every second I waste is a second he is rotting in prison. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Their faces, arms, and legs were covered with dark brown hair the color of rotting wood. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He sat naked in the road and began to unlace the rotting pieces of leather laced to his feet. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z ‘And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She could not tell whether or not the woman was human or something else, but it didn’t seem to matter, because the woman oozed blackness and rot. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to rot here like Grandma. I’m going to get off this island and do something.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were twenty feet of sand and then black earth again, and even a piece of redwood, that imperishable wood that does not rot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two dementors appeared in the doorway of the courtroom, their rotting, scabbed hands clutching the upper arms of a wizard who appeared to be fainting. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But fast enough, the dire reality of the situation began to hit Thomas, and his insides turned to rot. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was a man, his skin pale and rotting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Might the fishes devour him, this dog of a Siddhartha, this madman, this corrupted and rotting body, this sluggish and misused soul! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But Allah had blessed me to learn about the religion of Islam, which had enabled me to lift myself up from the muck and the mire of this rotting world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After looking over the tree good, I commenced to sawing off a limb that was rotted. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stillness of the tree, wrapped in the faint smell of rot, Naomi and Wash held each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the smell of thousands of onions, growing and rotting and sprouting. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Is it true you people eat nasty rotted food that smells like garbage? Is that why you smell? Huh?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It is the same bed that the three of us shared on the ship, and by now the straw is rotting. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But Johnson, it turned out, was also rotting underground. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She drew faces, places, and minute details of plants and animals—a stamen here, a paw there, the rotted out tooth of an aged goat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “We were filthy, our camp uniforms almost rotted off our bodies, and both of us so weak and emaciated, we could hardly stand,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a bone at the butcher's or rotted vegetables at the grocer's, something no one but my family was desperate enough to eat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He found forty, of which he only really liked two: "rose rot” and "to err so.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The bark had rotted away and fallen off, leaving the trunk bare and slick as glass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "Otis Amber says that old man Westing's stinking corpse is rotting on an Oriental rug." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Will put his hand on the knife at his belt and moved forward carefully onto the rotting planks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Or was the whole fantastic episode merely the figment of a diseased imagination, his own, of a deteriorating mind, a rotting brain? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The hot air is too heavy down here, the smells of death and rot too close. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Your fingers are covered with very nasty acids, young lady. You’ll rot away these magazines if you’re not careful. Before you go nosing around in the collection, you come to me!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Purple rain clouds burst over us like rotting grapes. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Glints of metal, bits of people’s clothes strewn around, all kinds of junk, the stink of rotting fish. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There was no sound but the slow, deep beat of the rotting heart. . . . mother of dragons . . . came a voice, part whisper and part moan . . . dragons . . . dragons . . . dragons . . . other voices echoed in the gloom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Cluny tore viciously at the rotting log until great chunks of it flew through the air. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He saw how pitilessly the layers of rubber and canvas held together the poor body that should be rotting away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “You are dunces, both of you, believing that rot,” I say. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It would hurl down cashews and mangoes from the trees and they would start to rot in the humid earth, giving out that sweet-and-sour scent. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z But the Pullman strike halted all train traffic through Chicago, and the perishable foods rotted in their traincars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z More like burning rubber, less like rotting dead mice? she thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the steps were a few rotting planks, all that remained of a broken door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I clambered up the mountainside to the rear of the house—the stairs had completely rotted through—and climbed through the back window we now used as a door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I sold my watch and scouted for cheaper rooms; I found a rotting building and rented an apartment in it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes poor people take the venison for their winter’s meat, but most of the time the carcasses rot until their skin hangs like ribbons over their bones. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z And the smell of mud, mold, and wet rot was thick enough to stick. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t as smelly as you’d expect a bunch of rotting food to be. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The smells filled his nostrils,- the sharp fresh tang of pine needles, the earthy odor of wet rotting leaves, the hints of animal musk and distant cooking fires. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The chairs, the carpet, the tables—all had rotted away; they sagged in mutual ruin, victims of the despotic force of time. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The first time, almost everything rotted, and the stench issued forth from the locked rooms, spreading through the house and seeping out into the neighborhood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He could smell the foaming flood water, stagnant and ripe with the rotting debris it carried past each village, sucking up their sewage, their waste, the dead animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z That was white people all over: Build a schoolhouse and let it rot, make a home then keep straying. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She ignored his rotting teeth as she jerked her chin toward the remnants of Xavier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The rolls of music that she herself had thrown into the trash with the pretext that they had rotted from dampness kept spinning and playing in her memory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z La Saline-on-Garbage: the air sharp with the smell of rotting oranges, sour with the smell of latrines shared by many. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But the girl noticed and, on that frosty night, burrowed deep into the warm, rotting muck, heedless of the smell. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was splattered with bits of rotted food, so rank we kept it shut away in a closet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But did you, perchance, see that rotting man on the gallows at the crossroad?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “Me, I mean to live, and that don’t mean staying here to rot.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The brilliant snake's eyes that were set so deep in that dreadful rotting worm-eaten face glared unblinkingly at the witches who sat facing her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “They’d rot if I didn’t watch them. Go out and bring in the tea tray.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This feeling sprang up of itself, organically, automatically; like the rotted hull of a seed forming the soil in which it should grow again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But could we travel with this meat before it rotted? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Jordie’s body was beside him, barely recognizable, white and swollen with rot, floating on the surface like some kind of gruesome deep sea fish. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The smell of the fire, and the animals that had had to be burned so that their rotting corpses would not infect the air, clung to his nostrils. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In some ways it was similar to the place that Kira had called home: the small cotts, close together; the incessant wailing of infants; the stench of smoky fires, rotting food, and unwashed humans. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Sahara they’ll fester and rot and fall out of your head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The stairs had long ago rotted away, but I was able to press a foot into a divot in the lacey concrete wall and leap upward, my arms just clearing the second floor. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Almost nothing remained of the original Gray Horse settlement but some rotted beams and bricks buried in the wild grasses, which the wind ruffled in ghostly rhythms. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead, the truck continued on to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, passing through a hellish landscape of burned-out villages and rotting corpses along the way. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All the silk and heavy wools that Viserys had worn out of Pentos were stained by hard travel and rotted from sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A warm body instead of a rotting one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The tang of pines, soft air, some mustiness from rotting vegetation. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z "A black brother down from the Wall. The steward says he brought some rotted hand in a jar." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Huang Taitai pried open my mouth and gasped upon seeing the open spot in the back of my mouth where a rotted tooth fell out four years ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The city’s great buildings and lavish homes awed her, but its smoke and darkness and the ever-present scent of rotting garbage repulsed her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Long ago enough, I guess, for their insides to start rotting and the crows and foxes to call all their friends and family around for a party. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s right, she says, me own teeth, and when I rot in the grave they’ll find me teeth a hundred years from now all white an’ shiny an’ I’ll be declared a saint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That was one thing I hated about Juanita, the way she clung to things and wouldn’t let them go, like a dim-witted gnat stuck on a piece of rotting fruit. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Instead of springboarding up, I sank into the rotting mush right up to my middle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I saw a hose. I doubt the cow would like milk rotting all over the place.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was shady, but foul with rotting vegetables and debris from the meat market. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She's rotting underground in Vine Station, Alabama, 1 thought, but even that wasn’t quite it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Water dripped from the ceiling, and the smell of old swamp and rotting vegetation filled the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The guard jerked his head toward a body rotting on the floor beside the door, its flesh green and crawling with maggots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rots and the freshness combined into a strange fragrance—the smell of poverty. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The torn articles—the parchment wrapped around a fistful of rotting vegetables—splattered in his face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He opened the side-by-side refrigerator and was accosted by the smell of rotting fruits and vegetables. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “It’s that heap of rotting coffee beans on Ball’s Wharf, I tell you,” Mr. Carris said to the other men. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A doghouse sat rotting and half collapsed in one corner, and near it a toppled laundry line was gradually being swallowed by brush. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The smell of sea and rot and crushed humanity was strong, much stronger than in the ship-breaking yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It had lain there for years, and the seams on strap and grip had rotted away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, by a twist of fate, a rotting log gave way and a large section bulged forward under the added strain. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked by the side of the Mill Pond, which smelled of rotting weeds and fish, gulls clustering above it, screeching at the sea-winds, their cries punctuated by the detonation of artillery. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The rubber was old and rotting and the balloon burst almost at once, and I was heartbroken. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With much of the old rot out, I could crawl in the tree and sit cross-legged. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene shifted, and we were looking at rotted pink Belgian lace. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Seeing as how I no longer ate anything, there were no rotting food scraps to worry about, just cigarette butts, aspirin tins, wads of undernourished hair, and bloody Kleenex. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Ripe grain went unharvested; unpicked orchard fruits were left in trees to rot as communities fled from the invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I love the symbolism, Daniel, but it isn’t practical. Paper clips don’t rot; berries do.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z "And what are we to offer for my brother? Lord Eddard's rotting head?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Because nobody an be made to learn it. Battles and dates and all tl at rot.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Bono had, through his exertions—the boat being well nigh intractable, now swamped—snapped off the rowlock and a stave of the gunwale, wet with rot. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The water had a funny taste to it, and Lommy told them it was the taste of bodies, rotting someplace upstream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “No sense letting your brain go to rot. You know anything at all about working with wood?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don’t mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If he was even alive, that is—the Shorawi, may they rot in hell for what they did to our watan, killed so many of our young men. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "Somebody is up there, Chris, but nobody is there, just rich Mr. Westing, and he's dead. Dead as a squashed June bug and rotting away on a moth-eaten Oriental rug." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d seen other people’s wounds turn nasty, sick with rot and gangrene; seen their stumps crawling with maggots where they’d gone bad after having an amputation. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z For Ferula, who had spent her life taking care of an old lady who was slowly, irremediably rotting alive, looking after Clara was like being in heaven. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days later the smell of rotting meat infected every shop in the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bleached shores of the lake the carcasses of sinners rotted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuck in a half-finished house surrounded by rotting stumps and wild animals of all sorts, she felt as far removed as ever from the sophisticated life that she envisioned for herself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Reek passed the rotted carcass of a horse, an arrow jutting from its neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The air smelled of age and dry rot and damp, but of nothing worse than that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The swing groaned while we sat there smelling warm rain, wet wood, rotted grass. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Men and mounts alike were trotting by the time they reached the trees on the far side of the sodden field, where dead shoots of winter wheat rotted beneath the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were crammed against one another and, just like last time, I couldn’t stop to try to help them—my feet moved me past until finally I arrived at that same rotted wooden door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The stench was overpowering—men unwashed for months and puke and muck and rot that was eating living flesh. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “That explains the rotting flesh smell,” Maya replied, then ducked when Joaquin threw a napkin at her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The fields—wherever they were, whatever they were—had gone darker, the grass yellowing under their feet, the rides rusting, the candy apples moldering, the smell of rot and wet and damp assaulting her nostrils. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Tons of whale meat, bone, and scrap blubber lay rotting around the station. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As the boat evened up with the end of the dock I jumped off and hooked a line around a cleat, but the wood was rotted and the cleat bolts ripped out of the dock. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He squatted down and picked at the rotted wood of the pier. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Scrambling over a damp, rotting log, Kendra shrieked when she saw a glistening white frog. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The web of shops and ships and rotting bridges changed so often that after a month, the port would become an entirely new labyrinth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The air reeks something horrible, a combination of carrion, rotting eggs, and Cadets’ quarters in high summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It smelled like exactly what it was: rotting flesh. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was warm, and the sickly sweet rot from winter’s thaw and a coming storm perfumed the air. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Many had died in a cholera epidemic and they’d been buried in haste in wooden boxes and the boxes were rotting and falling open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I whispered; “even if it’s lying there, undisturbed, the water rots it, doesn’t it?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Through part of the rotting body he saw a shoe, a busted Nike Toby had been wearing for years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Soon, unless he, unless somebody did something, the rot would reach the pit. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said I wouldn’t be happy until Shawn was rotting in prison, that I’d come back from Cambridge just to raise hell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As well as smoke, a miasma of rotting meat drifted toward them—more slaughtered cavalry horses, hundreds of them, in a heap in a field. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The gourd head began to rot in the sun and collapse upon itself, oozing and purple like a bruise. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Levy looked hopelessly at the rotting Celtic cross in the front yard. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The turnkey was twenty stone of gross stupidity, with brown rotting teeth and small dark eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The rotted corpses of fish and of whales, of seals and sea monsters, will wash in the waves. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Darkness hung from the canopy like black curtains, and as Tanin’s eyes adjusted, she picked her way among sprawling roots and rotting logs until she reached a clearing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Some fruit rots while still containing perfectly good seeds, and gets thrown out uneaten into the garbage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The jail you plan for me is the one in which you will rot, I say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Rich and ripe and rotted, Volantis covered the mouth of the Rhoyne like a warm wet kiss, stretching across hill and marsh on both sides of the river. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Thus he established an alternative to spontaneous generation—the notion that life could rise, in fermenting grape juice or rotting meat, entirely independent of preexisting life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As I tiptoed up the rotting stairs, they creaked and groaned, cussing me for stepping on their aching backs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead of climbing the rotting steps, Lissa stood on the grass, her face wistful, and gazed at the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z "They say nobody's up there, just the corpse of old man Westing rotting away on an Oriental rug," Sandy reported as he hoisted a full briefcase from the trunk of the car. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z My patent-leather shoes slipped on the rotting wood of the pier. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Jackson Street, though, smelled of rotting fish, cabbages and radishes fermenting in sea brine, sluggish sewers and diesel streetcar fumes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A strong, rotting odor filled the air as the wagon passed by. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their house as dry rot. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was an apple core, brown and rotting. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The smell of rotting flesh had become unbearable in the hot car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Suffrised with the gagging, sickening smell of rotting bodies, people who died from the initial burst of heat and radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then they visited the Apothecary, which was fascinating enough to make up for its horrible smell, a mixture of bad eggs and rotted cabbages. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a whiff of honeysuckle and rot and skunk musk. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The corpses hung from trees as rotting ornaments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They stood on the bank, overlooking the tiny beanfield surrounded by desolate land, busted fences, rotting houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel and Jack crossed through the empty doorway into the rotting shell of the first floor and trod gently up the stairs, stepping over the ones that had already given themselves to the rot. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps his captors only meant to let him rot here, but he feared he did not have the strength to rot for long. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But he prefers to focus on hidden beauty, like rotting pumpkins and stormy skies. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Why did there have to be his blistered hands and his spoiled suit and sunburn and rotting fish and nausea? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take them away, and may they rot there!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Grass and thorns, blackberries broken on the ground, mud, worms, rotting leaves, a rat creeping through the bush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I hug the crypt-pocked walls, swallowing my revulsion at the reek of rotting bones. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I did not want to let your father’s house go to rot; we had all had many good times in that house, so many memories, Amir jan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He might as well just rot up here in the attic. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z One writer who signed his name “A Hint” said the cause of the fever was the stinking barrels of rotting garbage routinely found in backyards and basements. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Then it raised both its rotting hands — and lowered its hood. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Plants died and the grasses rotted, cattle and sheep crept to the river that was no more and perished there for lack of water, lizards and squirrels lay prone and gasping in the blistering sunlight. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The snake, on the other hand, was curled up on the rotting hearth rug, like some horrible travesty of a pet dog. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z To the side of the bridge, a stack of dead trees rotted, branches hanging into the murky water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The smells filled his head, alive and intoxicating; the green muddy stink of the hot pools, the perfume of rich rotting earth beneath his paws, die squirrels in the oaks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now they rotted quietly, neglected, sad, but filled with mysterious memories. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He took his sweet time walking the cart back into the store, relishing the brief moment spent outside before returning to the air-conditioned cold and slight smell of rotting meat and spoiled vegetables of Floyd’s. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I stopped short of an old dock, while Abby hopped over missing planks, walked to the end of it, took off her backpack, and settled down on one of the potentially rotted boards. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The streams were also crisscrossed by rotting trees and logs that had been felled by age or by extensive logging operations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The night air blew the smell of rotting flesh to my nose. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He ripped up a shoot growing out of the rotting trunk and started peeling away its bark to get at the green pith inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The crew looks out and sees only dead things, floating and rotting on the surface of the ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I rolled behind a pile of baskets filled with rotting chickens now, and to my left, upon the littered curb, a woman and man crouched behind an upturned delivery cart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The stench of human waste, urine, rotting wounds, and strong rubbing alcohol surrounds me, permeating my clothes, skin, and hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It reeked of burning hair and rotting flowers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And he had plenty of time to remember, because he did rot in barracks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then they began, as he knew they invariably would, to criticize the government—money stolen, contracts uncompleted, infrastructure left to rot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “You will rot in a federal prison for the remainder of your life.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you’re not enjoying the opera,” said Werfel, “there is no reason to keep sitting here like a couple of grapefruits rotted to the shelf.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Then large vats of pitch were hoisted up to the roof and the timber was coated to prevent it from rotting. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z With time, the tree would rot and become dirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Nothing could have been more pitiful and hopeless than the twenty-eight men marooned on the rotting ice pack nearly 200 miles from the nearest solid land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The only thing we can do is cover up the smell somehow, and avoid the area until the thing rots completely. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z "A plague, my lord. One that boils his spleen and rots his lungs." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z So many dead rotting bodies in the streets! Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The front porch was propped on three cinder blocks piled precariously beneath wood flooring that showed signs of rot. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When animal droppings and garbage and spoiled straw are piled up in a great heap, the rotting and moiling give forth heat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I passed a dead donkey rotting on the side of the road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sharp, sweet smell of rotting apples mixes with the scent of wet earth in my nose. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Sorry, you don't want to hear all this rot.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Shorty and I are going to rot in jail, and not just because of what we stole. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z What would he make of Vincent, thirty-two but much older looking, gaunt, with broken, rotting, and missing teeth, his body dirty, his clothing ripped, a battered hat on his head? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z How many years would it take before her jump rope rots and disappears? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It made no sense to leave so much good meat to rot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Have a good day, children. And if you’re late to class, don’t worry about it. Take time to smell the roses...and whatever else might be rotting in the hallways.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z A sharp scent of rot floated to him and he heard the scurrying of quick, dry feet over the wooden floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Tendai tried to work it loose, but dampness and rot made it crumble. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A few fish sat in pools, others lay beached on the sand, rotting with streamers of seaweed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Not the foul, rotting smell of sewage but a too-clean smell, like copper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We played “witch doctor” with the many odd-looking bones extracted from the rotting carcasses of dogs, cats and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He even offered to row them there, but he wanted too high a fee and so instead they went the long way, threading around drowned and rotting streets, down floating boardwalks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There were three bedrooms upstairs, Erma said, but no one had been to the second floor in nigh on ten years, because the floorboards were rotted through. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z You smelled for almost two days, of stale water and rot, and you hated it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Windfall, where ripe plums rain down from the gods’ trees and there is always the sweet smell of rot. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was nearly dusk and a March stillness had seized everything—the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Trees at the height of their blossom bubbled dark cream by a rotted bandstand. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A few old, rotting fireplace logs blocked the hole mouth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z As they traveled farther into the maze, the glass lamps became scarcer, until only a stray torch or a narrow boat’s dim lantern lit the rotting boardwalks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her mother, in rotting rags and filling the room with the stink of the grave, stood over her to curse the daughter who had denied her on her deathbed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The scent of rotting flesh fills the air and I gag. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “That’s because TV’s already rotted it. There’s still hope for you two.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Reminded me of bugs pouring out of a rotted cantaloupe if you kick it on the ground. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was sopping, but the Dacron wouldn’t rot or soak up water and would dry rapidly up in the open. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She just said, “That’s what I have got to find out”, sitting forward on the seat, trembling now and peering up the tree-arched drive toward where the rotting shell of the house would be. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at apartments together in West Philadelphia, Ifemelu surprised by the rotting cabinets in the kitchen, the mouse that dashed past an empty bedroom. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z While that’s cooking, I pick at the rotting parts of the onions. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The pull had led her through winding side streets rank with the stink of waste and rotting food until she’d found refuge in one particularly small alley filled with old crates she could hide behind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z After a long walk and several Y-shaped tunnel splits, the pigeon led us to a disused section of track where the ties had warped and rotted and pools of stagnant water spanned the floor. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The gene, he argued, had been “invented by geneticists” to support a “rotting, moribund bourgeoisie” science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Later, his colleagues would suggest that the telltale signs of decline had lurked just beneath the surface, quietly ravaging the scholar’s mind like moss on a rotting tree. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z |
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