| 单词 | rottenness |
| 例句 | Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see the rottenness inside my soul. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Despite Park’s anger—at the rottenness of North Korea, at his wife, at himself—he always carried himself with dignity, especially when it was time to eat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Why is there a pervasive rottenness in Denmark? Review: Hamlet 2010-09-23T11:41:00Z Everyone noted the unseemliness of the septuagenarian writer’s research prowls through coed dorms and the rottenness of the sex scenes he returned with. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Does a fetid air, for me, infuse the whole – the suffocatingly deferential class system, the airless orchid house of its quest-for-grace storyline, the rottenness at the heart of the English stately home Arcadia? Your next box set: Brideshead Revisited 2012-08-30T15:01:00Z The positions of both liberals and conservatives are affected by this rottenness but I speak here to liberals. The impossibility of religious freedom: Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College and the challenge for liberals 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z What really must have gotten them — and what still gets us — is the drama’s unstinting attack on the rottenness of their comfortable everyday world and their own individual complicity in sustaining it. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z When a shocking crime rocks Annawadi, the rottenness at the heart of the new India is exposed. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z Don't confuse this with the usual bourgeois heroism which says there is rottenness but the system is basically sound. A life in writing: Slavoj ?i?ek 2011-07-15T21:55:00Z Is Greenwald a stand-in for this famously outspoken Hollywood iconoclast, condemning the irredeemable rottenness of the system that employed him? Review: 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial' is a gripping swan song for director William Friedkin 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Putin said the prosecution in the United States of former President Donald Trump was politically motivated and demonstrated the “rottenness” of the U.S. political system. Putin signals he expects long war in Ukraine, is not betting on Trump 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z President Donald Trump was politically motivated and demonstrated the "rottenness" of the U.S. political system. Putin says Trump prosecution shows 'rottenness' of U.S. politics 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Putin said what was happening now in the United States demonstrated "all the rottenness of the American system" and the persecution of a political opponent for political reasons. Putin says Trump prosecution shows U.S. system is 'rotten' 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z He said the "whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system". Andrew Malkinson: Calls for inquiry into wrongful rape conviction 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The Times hollered against it as “freak legislation … conceived in rottenness.” They weren't caped crusaders, but these Angelenos fought corruption and won 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The mere ability to recognize the rottenness of patriarchy and capitalism also does not exempt you from perpetuating these constructs. Emily Ratajkowski explores her growing pains in ‘My Body’ 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z "It shows all the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy," he said at a forum in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok. Putin says Trump prosecution shows 'rottenness' of U.S. politics 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Läckberg uses the third person in these chapters, distancing the reader from Faye just as she seems to distance herself from the rottenness at her life’s core. Review: A trophy wife takes sweet corporate revenge in a gripping, dated Swedish noir 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z In his memoirs, Hoover quoted Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, chief architect of the laissez-faire 1920s policies, as saying, “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system.” The Depression shattered and changed America — now history may rhyme 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The wonder of the Trump administration — the jaw-dropping, brain-exploding phantasmagoria of it — is that it doesn’t bury its rottenness under layers of counterfeit virtue or use a honeyed voice to mask the vinegar inside. Opinion | How Low Will Trump Go? 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The house’s fundamental, supernatural rottenness comes across from the first minutes of the film, long before we know what’s wrong with it. Girl on the Third Floor is a skin-crawling film about home repair 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z On the contrary, he revels in Britain’s breakdown, because it exposes the rottenness of the Conservative party and its “dire cabinet”, and of Westminster and Whitehall for “the whole country – the whole world” to see. Compromise on Brexit? The right would rather drive us to destruction | Nick Cohen 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z The real issue is not individuals, but the rottenness of those backing them. The Guardian view on the US supreme court: the wrongs required to move right | Editorial 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z “The rottenness of Boris Johnson goes deeper even than his casual racism & his equally casual courting of fascism. He will advocate literally anything to play to the crowd of the moment,” Cooper said on Twitter. Splits deepen over British minister Johnson's burqa comments 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before? Opinion | How Low Will Trump Go? 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z To most ears, the question sounds blasphemous, which illustrates the rottenness of our immigration debate. Opinion | Why do we need more people in this country, anyway? 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Each time we get a new piece of evidence for the rottenness at their core, I just want to throw up my hands and say, "I get it! They suck! Leave me alone!" Do Americans hate the Patriots more than they hated the Soviet Union national teams? - Golf Digest 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The essential rottenness at the heart of modern American evangelicalism has been displayed for all to see. Opinion | Is There an Evangelical Crisis? 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z In 1855, he released The Land of Gold, discouraging migration to California, exposing “its rottenness and its corruption.” Confederate Monuments and the Forgotten Warning of a Crisis to Come 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Cubans' supposed "pride" at defeating the US in sports does not mask the rottenness of Castro's regime. Under Fidel Castro, Sport Symbolized Cuba’s Strength and Vulnerability 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z A phenomenon like Trump, whatever its antecedents, is an opportunity—in this case to purge a rottenness that begins at the commanding heights. Green Elites, Trumped 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z There is a sickness afoot in our country, my friends, a putrefaction of the soul, a rottenness in the spirit. America has gone mad and there’s no place to hide 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “It is not just another amusing stunt. It is defiant – the desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the rottenness of our civilisation to want to save a shred of its respectability.” Dalí in a diving helmet: how the Spaniard almost suffocated bringing surrealism to Britain 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z “Becoming a man is realizing that it’s all rotten—and realizing how to celebrate that rottenness. That’s freedom.” Six Episodes of Sinister 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But without the persistence of Wallace-Jones the deep rottenness at the heart of the sport may never have been exposed. IAAF in crisis: a complex trail of corruption that led to the very top 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z We already have a whiff of rottenness at the core. Why supermarkets are on the way out 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z And the ways in which it’ll hurt the company, its brands and dealers continue to unfold, no matter how hard CEO Mary Barra is trying to clean corporate cupboards of all the rottenness at once. 6 Reasons GM Could Avoid A June Swoon In Car Sales 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z End the Fed provides a big-picture view, of how rotten money leads to rottenness throughout government and society as a whole. Book Review: Ron Paul's End the Fed Condenses a Lifetime of Wisdom and Experience 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z So far today, it’s been a fascinating but rather grim mixture of research that can’t be replicated, dodgy authorship, plagiarism and duplicate papers, and the general rottenness of citations as a measure of scientific impact. Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publication 2013-09-09T12:45:10.150Z The writer of the article characterizes it as a mix of “decomposed vegetable matters; the filth left there by thousands of passing animals; all conceivable sources of dirt, and all degrees of rottenness.” Heat-Struck, July 1852 2013-07-26T22:54:39Z This rottenness is partly the politicians' fault, for their inability to deal with the fundamental questions, instead resorting to broad brushstrokes and outsourcing the serious thinking. Mark Carney is hailed as a saviour – but what do we really know about him? 2013-07-01T19:00:02Z "The belief that this was not just a few bad apples but a rottenness at the core of UK policing needs to be tested by a full, open and independent investigation, now," it said. Church calls for Lawrence inquiry 2013-07-01T13:36:46Z To contemporaries like Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover’s treasury secretary, it simply purged the “rottenness” from the economy. Capitalism in America: About turn 2013-05-30T15:02:23Z Some day maybe someone/some group will "purge the rottenness out of the system" in the US and Europe. Recommended economics writing: Link exchange 2013-04-26T19:18:14Z But the events of the past week also show up the rottenness of our economic policymaking process. Austerity: an idea on trial 2013-04-21T21:38:45Z They know the "whole thing," and its utter rottenness. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z We need not repeat for the thousandth time the fact of the unutterable corruptness and rottenness of the whole pagan world. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z But the blossoms fell, and the fruit proved as rottenness. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The Freethinker will necessarily regard this insane theology as a rottenness at the very heart of the experiment. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z They will preserve them from the rottenness of oblivion. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The rottenness of the material substance of every individual thing—water, dust, bones, stench.... The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Society was indeed in a state of rottenness. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z The flabbiness, rottenness, and helplessness of the middle-classes and their parties everywhere became evident with terrifying clearness. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Yet, despite this inward rottenness, Hungary, for nearly twenty years after the death of Matthias, enjoyed an undeserved prestige abroad, due entirely to the reputation which that great monarch had won for her. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z He grappled with questions that shook empires; led the van in many a contest against despotism; was indebted in no small degree for his victories to the rottenness of the institutions he assailed. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The precipitous step at the top of the landslip had been difficult enough to descend, and on account of the rottenness of its substance we felt that the ascent might be impossible. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z Here was an exceptionally able man, who was keenly alive to the rottenness of the present order, but who took only a languid interest in righting it. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Gnawing worms and rottenness, Death, decay, and nothingness: These are thy doom—how soon, how soon! Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z They inoculate animals with a virus of disease; they put poison in their eyes until rottenness destroys the sight; until the poor brutes become insane. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Interviews 2012-02-11T03:03:56.437Z He was a Wilkes, without so large a measure of cowardice, meanness, turbulence, or rottenness of character and principle. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Come out, come out and leave them alone in their putridity—in their rottenness. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Don't you see the full rottenness of it all? Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z How much beautiful reasoning has been utterly and gratuitously wasted, upon premises, which have turned out to be not a whit better, than stubble and rottenness! Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z When he thought, he reflected on the decay of mankind—the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z His years in Florence had been spent in the “hubbub of imminent war,” and he writes indignantly of “the rottenness of these pitiable petty States and the incredible fantastic tricks of their abominable rulers.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The vesture of fair seeming in the present campaign was torn away and there was revealed rottenness. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z They are significant of many things—of a coming democracy that will at least try to burn up the rottenness of our modern ultra Pagan-civilization. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy! The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z He was a man of one idea:—that all civilisation was the painted fungus of rottenness. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The rottenness of the New York Custom-House was a crying evil before Grant became President, and its flavor was not improved by the appointment of Murphy as its chief officer. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z He saw the Depression as something of a morality play, in which economic devastation would “purge the rottenness out of the system.” Why Not Give the Greeks Their Say? 2011-11-03T19:34:09Z The weight of this rottenness lay heaviest of all on the labouring poor, who stood undermost in the social scale. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Within the city was a crowd of beings horrible to look at and to hear, and filth and rottenness and a terrible stench were everywhere. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z A decay or rottenness spreads through the beams of a house, unseen and unfeared, and then, by and by down it comes, and is utterly destroyed. Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z It was hard for him to separate himself from the Republican party in 1871-72, but he considered it a duty that he owed to the country to expose the rottenness then pervading the national administration. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z But now everything is rottenness and corruption in this world.' The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Thus when heresy infects one member of our holy Church, it is urgent to separate it from all others, lest its rottenness contaminate the mystical body of our Lord. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z He enumerates evils which honeycombed society with rottenness then, and are rampant now. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z It was cut-throat all the way through—a policy that made for the rottenness of trade. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z If the Christianity existed in the Roman Catholic Church that should be there, why is there so much rottenness connected with it? The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z Thrust your walking-stick sharply against the black wood there and it penetrates easily, and with a little pushing goes in a surprising distance; the tree seems undermined with rottenness. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Why, yesterday, passing through Phalsbourg, I got upon the ramparts, and I saw there guns of the time of Herod, upon gun-carriages eaten up by worms and painted over to conceal the rottenness. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z The rafters were black with smoke or rottenness: the walls had been wainscoted with oak, but the greatest part had been torn down for firing. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z The Argyle closed, the vice p. 26remains the same, and it will avail little to make clean the outside of the whited sepulchre if within there be rottenness and dead men’s bones. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z The same rottenness will always exist in the Church of Rome that has always existed. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z As is the course of temporal things, so is that of the spiritual world--Stagnation is death and rottenness. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z It goes like rotten apples: first a bit goes rotten here and then a bit there; and the rottenness spreads and runs together. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z He was towering in his anger and, seeking to shift responsibility for his own rottenness to the shoulders of the woman before him, he aroused a sense of injury and genuine indignation. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Little wonder, then, that, with such a state of rottenness, bribery, and corruption obtaining, the missionaries on the remote stations have, in the interests of the people, looked after their worldly affairs. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z It was because of this rottenness and corruption that practically all of the ex-priests have left Romanism, and because of the wrongs perpetrated that practically all of the ex-nuns have left. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z "Yes, we shall be little shreds of rottenness," she said placidly. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z We remove rottenness that we may restore health by letting in air and light. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Finding I was not hurt, I fell to groping for a way out again; then I noticed the rottenness of the timbers, and determined to enlarge the light I had just made. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z The rottenness of steel districts precluded all thought of relief through political channels. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z There had been little bloodshed when the Junta took over; after thirty years, the Segura regime, or what was left of it, had just collapsed of its own rottenness. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z You shall see the craft in all its rottenness, and not embark a bale on board of me without knowing how frail is the hope you trust to. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z They had been killed some time without having been gutted, and in this state of loathsome rottenness, we have every reason to suppose they are eaten by the natives. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I 2011-03-24T02:00:11.430Z In the course of their wandering through the town they came to a navy-yard, where they saw several vessels in an interesting condition of rottenness. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Its bursten skin and pulp too ripened dye Opulently their rich rottenness With green gold, violet, and red phosphorus. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z During its struggle with France, Spain found itself also involved in hostilities with England, and the real rottenness of the Spanish monarchy became rapidly apparent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Or was it the foul incense men burn to his dread shrine, calling him to their homes—the thin invisible mist rising from filth and rottenness, to blight the rosy cheek of health? Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z The rope was strong, but the rottenness of the ship’s timbers was proved in a sudden and appalling manner. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z He had seemed then to have a future before him; the brave exterior gave no hint of the rottenness within. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z At the same time it proves the rottenness of the assembly then on trial for its life. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z The collapse of the Austrian administration, of which the inherent rottenness was now revealed, involved that of those reactionary powers which had leaned upon it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z They were old vessels, and creaked and groaned as if they were about to fall apart from very rottenness. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z The trouble is—you are so impregnated with the rottenness about you, that you judge all by your own standard.... My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Neither art thou thyself able sufficiently to explore it, or to explain in words, that detestable venom which is as rottenness in thy innermost parts. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z He always knew they were the wrong sort of rottenness. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z “Hayek was not a liquidationist,” he says, referring to the philosophy of Andrew Mellon, President Herbert Hoover’s Depression-era treasury secretary, who wanted to “purge the rottenness out of the system”. Buttonwood: Taking von Mises to pieces 2010-11-18T11:27:00Z The corners of spendthrift rottenness in Labour's welfare state – increasingly akin to Italy's – are not cleansed, but a start is made. Budget 2010: If Osborne's gamble pays off, it is Thatcherism's finest hour 2010-06-22T18:59:00Z Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, who infamously told President Herbert Hoover to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate ... it will purge the rottenness out of the system." Markets flirt with the Samson Option: John Kemp 2010-05-12T11:56:00Z He is expected to highlight the banking crash and recession, the "illegal invasion of Iraq", the "corruption and rottenness in our politics" and claim Britain has become more unfair under Labour. Parties ready for election fight 2010-04-06T09:18:00Z When we open this door, Lizzie, all the old rottenness must be sloughed off. The Undying Past If society at large had been half as corrupt as it is represented by Juvenal, it would have speedily perished from mere rottenness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The cry of “rottenness” was in the air. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager Honest toil, useful labor, against industrial robbery and political rottenness! Labor and Freedom What is it all but mockery?" he said—"a promise never to be realised, the fair skin which covers disease—rottenness? The Man Who Rose Again Sitting here, he was susceptible to the rottenness that was coeval with all creation. Sinister Street, vol. 2 And all this rottenness, all this corruption, had been proximately caused by a seed dropped into a soil prepared for it—the soul left doubtless from the Karma of some previous life. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Tell life that it needs the quickening of this spirit, that it may not drop piecemeal through the corruptions of sin into the darkness and rottenness of the pit. Misread Passage of Scriptures All here turns into rottenness,—religion, laws, arts, sciences,—and all hastens to renew itself in America. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 The entire region is overwhelmed by the intellectual stagnation and moral rottenness of Mohammendanism, except Tibet, which is the stronghold of Lamaism, a corrupt form of Buddhism. The Call of the World or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity It is a suicidal thought, to wish your roots plucked up, because they reach down amid weeds and rottenness. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation What am I the better for p. 134learning all the rottenness of domestic life? About London I know that my tongue was swollen in my mouth and that brine moistened my lips, and that a rottenness pervaded my body like a fever. Doom of the House of Duryea The fabric in his own case was full of internal rottenness. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition How it was to be brought about, I did not know; but I felt that the seeds of indestructible virtue and purity were yet lurking amidst this mass of ruin and rottenness. Waldfried A Novel In proportion as vice is more prevalent, the decorum of the world would appear to increase, and internal rottenness and external decency bear a due relation to each other. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands He had no illusions about the efficiency of his armies, though he may not have been cognizant of the thorough rottenness of the whole. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Yes," said she at length, and speaking unconsciously aloud, "no cause could prosper with supporters like these; there must be rottenness in the confederacy that links such agencies as these together. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago "Yes, yes, there's one place I can go, and get plenty to eat, and get away from this eternal rottenness—" Dave looked up at him, his eyes suspicious. Marley's Chain When an empire gets sufficiently corrupt, it tumbles apart of its own rottenness? Rose MacLeod What rottenness was within that gilded splendor by which she was surrounded! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He is a blind nut in which there is no good, He is a stinking rottenness, a withered tree, He is a branch of a blossomless crab-apple, Whoso doth not the will of the King. Ancient Irish Poetry Ugly and bestial gods caked thick with gold— Their hideousness Blaspheming Christ—'mid shattered altars rolled To rottenness, Their slaves abolished and their priests of old Trodden to nothingness. Blooms of the Berry So long as this exists, depend upon it, there is rottenness in the core of society. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II San Francisco is the most wonderful city in the world inasmuch as she not only exists but thrives on the top of such outrageous rottenness. Ancestors A Novel The career on which Colbert now entered must not be judged without constant remembrance of the utter rottenness of the previous financial administration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" I hid my face in the crumbling rottenness of the hollow tree, that I might hear and see nothing. Eyes Like the Sea As the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so your root will be rottenness and your seed go up as dust. Mary Magdalen "Never mind," said Garnet, in retort, "we've restored public credit and cut the rottenness out of our government." John March, Southerner There were not wanting persons, of course, who regarded his condition as a crucial instance of the exceeding rottenness of our present industrial system. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies The temple, with its pure white marble walls, and endless columns projected against a blue and cloudless Egyptian sky, was to them a whited sepulchre full of rottenness within. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition She is conscious of the rottenness of putting on a khaki tunic, and winding khaki putties round and round her legs to hang about the Hospital doing nothing. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium It showed a frightful state of rottenness within even the most renowned regiments—those of the Guard Corps, in which the scions of nobility hold it an honor to serve. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day Garnet," replied the general, with that superior smile which Garnet so hated, "States, like apples—and like men—have two sorts of rottenness. John March, Southerner If it were all sound, it would break by its own obstinate stiffness: the soundness is checked by the rottenness, and the stiffness is balanced by the elasticity. Pot-Boilers The social fabric was a festering mass of rottenness. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Unquestionably the Russian war did us the service of thoroughly exposing the rottenness of our military system so far as concerned the officering of the army. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. It is merely a tinsel coating over the rottenness and rust with which Russian life is "sicklied o'er." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. There's a rottenness in it, and your father was fighting to cut out the rottenness. Bear Trap Some secret sin has been eating at the heart of the tree, and in a critical moment it is blown down and its rottenness revealed. Sowing and Reaping But he will add to the rottenness of the world and spread disaster and misery with every day of his life. The Fate of Felix Brand All this grain was purchased up, principally for exportation, whilst the food of the people, as exhibited this day in the Potato Market, was a mass of disease and rottenness. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign To declare righteousness is to declare that which is righteous, which does not conceal internal emptiness and rottenness under a fair outside. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 It had been one great source of rottenness in politics. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways Rotten, rotten to the core, this state for which he would have given his heart's blood, and not only rotten, but not caring a whit for her rottenness—glorying rather, in her own degradation. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel A damp, foetid smell, suggestive of the rottenness of decay, assailed my nostrils and made me sneeze. Byways of Ghost-Land Their problem is to develop a rich and prosperous industrial life, but escape the rottenness of American politics. The Conflict between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship By its own rottenness the world had been made fallow for truth. Carmen Ariza The bigger and grander the nation, the more rottenness, if it’s rotten at heart. The Eye of Dread But when he does reach the end, when every pleasure tried, every beauty of surrounding created, and he expects to eat the fruit of his work, instantly his mouth is filled with rottenness and decay. Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes Tell him, old man, tell him of your various rottennesses and vile transgressions, if you can remember some. Death of a Spaceman A short rainfall for a year is more disastrous than a mad king; a plague is worse than fifty grasping governors; social rottenness is incomparably more dangerous than the rottenest government. The Soul of a People Otherwise, things will revert to their previous state of rottenness as sure as Allah lives. The Book of Khalid The reason of mouldiness, cracks, and rottenness within, is the not well pressing, turning, or curing, the curd and cheese. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Their beauty's almost insolent; I don't know if it's strange that they are foul-feeders and thrive on rottenness. Partners of the Out-Trail And more than that—Germany now actually knows the rottenness of our defences!” The White Lie The boiling of any kind of woodwork or household furniture in an iron cauldron, with a solution of vitriol, will prevent the breeding of bugs, and preserve it from rottenness and decay. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families It went down not so much because of the strength of the other side as because of its own rottenness. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference Draw near, fond man, and dress thee by this glass, Mark how thy bravery and big looks must pass Into corruption, rottenness and dust; The frail supporters which betray'd thy trust. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II You and I have seen something of the rottenness of the underpinning which props up empires. The Maids of Paradise Such a state of society is poisoned and polluted; is a fearful mass of corruption and rottenness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 In considering what is conducive to health or otherwise, it is impossible to overlook this destructive passion, which like envy is 'the rottenness of the bones.' The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families And it's nauseating to think that you don't realize the rottenness of it. Otherwise Phyllis Either it is so or 'the pillared firmament is rottenness and earth's base built on stubble'. Progress and History Tubs of putrid fish, in all stages of decomposition, gave out a most horrid stench, whilst other carcasses strewed the ground in advanced rottenness. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The filthy bloated flies buzzed around him now in larger numbers, feasting horribly on his rottenness, and he himself was sunk in stupid, wide-eyed despair. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula It is useless to speculate how far this dream would have been realized but for the utter rottenness of the instruments with which the reformers worked. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) I couldn't marry you; I should be afraid that my children would inherit the rottenness of my blood.' The Explorer These are only as the whitewash of your sepulchres to hide the loathsomeness within—‘the rottenness and dead men’s bones!’ Memories of Bethany It was owing to the rottenness of his time that he always took, and was forced to take, a polemical position. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities But by far the most injurious of all our pigments is asphaltum; it always gives rather rottenness than depth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. A change became apparent in public sentiment—the rottenness of Addicksism was overcome by the stench of "Standard Oil." Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The hideous lumber and rottenness that surround the child in her grandfather's home take shape again in Quilp and his filthy gang. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Accordingly he embarked in a ship, which a dreadful tempest, together with its own rottenness, caused to founder at sea. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes For over a thousand years, theirs was an economy of death and rottenness. Hunters Out of Space The rottenness of the ground gave chances, and made it hazardous. A Tramp's Notebook I hope none of those who have followed the terrific arraignment of rottenness and rascality made through the Frick report are so foolish as to imagine that the evils described are confined to the Equitable. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated "Except that there are a few million less men to carry on the rottenness"— Margaret shook her head. Mufti On one occasion, being 434 urged to the combat with a bristling Boar, he seized him by the ear; but, through the rottenness of his teeth, let go his prey. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes It was a tale of rottenness and corruption in high places told simply and with the stamp of truth upon it. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Over and over again his care has been rendered nugatory; his beer has fallen into acidity or rottenness, and disastrous losses have been sustained, of which he has been unable to assign the cause. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The revelations I delivered to the public in my story of "Frenzied Finance," together with the accompanying expositions of insurance and other rottenness in the "Critics" department, were not accepted without protest from my correspondents. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Human love in the individual has been the salt which has kept the body politic from utter rottenness. The Justice of the King It might be sufficient to leave it, in all its rottenness and inflation, to every good man’s silent scorn, if it had not also so largely tainted the intellect of the young. St. Winifred's, or The World of School For all the actions that were called honest, civil and religious before, get a new name, and they being seen in God's light, are called rottenness, and living without the law, Rom. vii. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning I never believed in the rottenness of England, and surely the spirits of our young men who are fighting ought to prove that it isn't? There was a King in Egypt He screamed in terror as he fell in a heap at Kiddie's feet, followed by a shower of dust and strange, dry rottenness that was mingled with the syrup from the honeycombs. Kiddie the Scout The elect of the Lord were fond of describing themselves as the most contemptible of sinners; the salt of the earth as being rottenness and corruption. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 It cries to you through my lips: 'Worm-eaten, mouldering aristocracy! full of rottenness, crammed with meat and wine, satiated with luxury—give place to the young, the strong, the hungry!' The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy We cover ourselves with a wall of external duties, and think to hide all the rottenness of our hearts, but it will not be hid from him, before whom hell hath no covering. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning England wasn't a bit rotten—or, at least, no rottener than she ever was, only the rottenness was all dragged into the limelight. There was a King in Egypt Only the rottenness in him hasn't broke out because of the weed. The Heart of Unaga When all within is festering decay and rottenness, a Judas, without anomaly, may kiss his Lord. Natural Law in the Spiritual World There is rottenness in its foundations, and there is built into it “wood, and hay, and stubble,” How can it stand? My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year Many are like the sepulchres Christ speaks of,—without, painted and fair,—within, no thing but rottenness and dead bones. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning "You know I always abhorred town-life," Mike said, "and all its artificiality and rottenness and needless accumulation of unnecessary things." There was a King in Egypt Under this white stone a fair-haired girl moulders and festers into wormy rottenness; shadows of her lustrous curls, come—twine round my burning brow! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He plunged now, in his charming, high, slightly too mannered voice, into a discussion with Marjorie on the absolute rottenness of the modern magazine, considered from the viewpoint of style. I've Married Marjorie Then, having removed the cloths in which they had been wrapped, and which were half-consumed from age and rottenness, they covered them with other and more handsome palls, and bound them with linen bands. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See Old graves, and these full of rottenness and dead men's bones, are nothing to express the lamentable case of such a soul, and yet such are all by nature. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning What right have they to propagate the rottenness of their minds and bodies? The Crooked House In the long silence that followed, there was only one answer—the subtle odour of rottenness stole into the room. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Dr. Charles Parkhurst, famous especially for his plucky exposure of the former rottenness of the police force of that city, had asked me to give an illustrated lecture at his mission in the Bowery. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Lanfranc having remained untouched for sixty-nine years, his very bones were consumed with rottenness, and nearly all reduced to powder. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See Thus they are as sepulchres painted without, and putrified within—outwardly adorned, and within all full of rottenness and corruption, “the imagination of his heart only evil continually.” The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance The weakness of dissension, where there should be solidarity; division of interests, where nothing can save but union; rottenness, where there should be wholesomeness and vigor. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain And what can be closer to the note of the great Histories and Tragedies than the Elder Brother's outburst of faith— "If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble"? Milton Is there no Christ-half that walks within me towards the place of rottenness and dead men's bones? Despair's Last Journey He offers us all the flash and glitter of the world, but he does not let us see the foulness and rottenness which they cover. The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles "If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Of course, you want to be nice and mellow with the trade, but always remember that mellowness carried too far becomes rottenness. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." The knife of the surgeon is what the evil cries out for and must have—else come universal rottenness and death. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century One of his pet theories was that one secret of the rottenness underlying the social, and in natural sequence, the political structure of the United States was the absence of a convention. The Californians I never listen to the swans of the cesspool, and must declare that nothing is heavier to me than rottenness and corruption. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Look at our scientific machinery, which has destroyed domestic manufacture, which has substituted rottenness for strength in the thing made, and physical degradation in crowded towns for healthy and comfortable country life in the makers. Gryll Grange It is an African disease, intensified and aggravated by the rottenness and filthy habits of the human cargoes that brought it to America. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited The truth was that each day the girl realized more the hollowness and rottenness of the life she was leading. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Besides, it would be a perfect godsend to thousands of unhappy bachelors, who sigh for the realities of domesticity amidst the artificiality and rottenness of London society. She and I, Volume 1 I may shake titles and dignities by the dozen from my breakfast-board; but I may not save those upon whose heads I shake them from rottenness and oblivion. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Look at this ice here, where a portion of the original hummock still remains bare—it is yellow and rotten, not with the rottenness which precedes a thaw, but with extreme age. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure It was a large chamber, the boards of which were furred with mildew, and the valance on the bed was dropping off with rottenness. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 If this fail me, the pillared firmament is rottenness, and earth's base built on stubble. Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 Oh, to what a sink of iniquity, what a pool of pollution, what a stagnant pit of moral rottenness is the Marriage relation sunk by the unhallowed and unbridled sensuality of thousands who enter it! Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. Swiftly before him passed a vision of the Intendant's palace at Quebec, with its women and riot and rottenness. Fort Amity An indescribable gangrene of material prosperity threatens to cause public honesty to degenerate into rottenness. Napoleon the Little This ghastly piece of royal rottenness has not been thrown upon this shore by the hand of man. Sermons on Biblical Characters They innoculate animals with a virus of disease; they put poison in their eyes until rottenness destroys the sight; until the poor brutes become insane. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews Our social life is worm-eaten and crumbling into rottenness with secret and scandalous hidden relationships; these dark and musty by-ways and corners of sexual conduct want to be spring-cleaned and made decent. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards But to Gordon's trained eyes, there was plenty of outright rottenness, too. Police Your Planet Rousseau branded the eighteenth century, in these terms: "This great rottenness amidst which we live." Napoleon the Little It stigmatizes law as the machinery of injustice; it sneers at society as hollow-hearted corruption and insincerity; it brands politics as a reeking mass of rottenness, and scoffs at morality as the tinsel of sin. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Society is the builder of fourflushers, the generator of insincerity—falsehood and rottenness. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep There's enough rottenness in the present without raking up the past. Quin The kind offices of the bed for Shūzen, or the rottenness of the jail for these two criminals. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 It invaded whole empires until they fell in pieces from very rottenness. Plain Facts for Old and Young I warn you of her; I was such as she, only wiser; I warn you, the ground she stands upon is water, and whoso trusts her leans on rottenness. The Waif Woman As he bent down the body of a dead soldier inflated by its own rottenness bubbled up to the surface. The Red Horizon A faint smell—a smell of corruption, of ancient rottenness—arose on the superheated air. Brood of the Witch-Queen The rottenness of still-born love in the heart of a child poisons the blood of the soul, and hence, later, crime. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Even the bones become rottenness; foul running sores appear on different portions of the body, and may even cover it entirely. Plain Facts for Old and Young If any word in the language reminds me of a whited sepulchre it is that;—all clean and polished outside with filth and rottenness within. Can You Forgive Her? As the valet of Count Almaviva he has seen the man of privilege at close quarters and has sounded his rottenness and incapacity. The French Revolution A Short History The whole horrible phantasmagoria—together with the odour of ancient rottenness—faded like a fevered dream, at the moment that Dr. Cairn had burst in upon the creator of it. Brood of the Witch-Queen That is why we have this flood of literature just now telling us of the gross abuses and general rottenness of the German army. A Maker of History It is a painful and tragic spectacle that rises before me: I have drawn back the curtain from the rottenness of man. The Antichrist The vulture pounces on rottenness with a cry of obscene satisfaction; but the lark seeks the sunrise with a song of worship. The Friendships of Women Take a soul that is saturated with the rottenness of depravity into the core of heaven, and it is in the heart of hell still. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Why, man, you couldn't get a pale brown interior with beans of the Forastero or Calabacillo type if you fermented them to rottenness. Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer If this be false or unstable, then is The pillar'd firmament rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry As you probably surmise, I understand rottenness in the sense of décadence: my argument is that all the values on which mankind now fixes its highest aspirations are décadence-values. The Antichrist There is a ripeness of moral fastidiousness that is often difficult to distinguish from rottenness. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View The hideous deformity, the rottenness and repulsiveness of the leper Hann is brought out in such vivid detail that we sicken and fain would turn aside in disgust. Violets and Other Tales "Oh, Lord," he said; "the rottenness of it all—the utter rottenness." The Danger Mark In the joyous growth of this snow-white glory he had forgotten all pain and decay, forgotten the moss on his bark, the rottenness of his roots was concealed. The Bridal March; One Day There was a startling article, a tremendous article, showing the pressing necessity of immediate reform, and proving the necessity by an illustration of the borough-mongering rottenness of the present system. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Contentment under some circumstances is the first stage of rottenness. Round About the Carpathians Such a state of affairs cannot last, it must break down from inherent rottenness, and it will be well if the fall does not sweep away the freedom of all of us. Boer Politics The Bible says that envy is the rottenness of the bones, meaning that utter corruption which has finally reached the framework of the structure. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future It was cutthroat all the way through—a policy that made for the rottenness of trade. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 What you call ripeness, others, with as much truth, may call over-ripeness, nay, even rottenness; when all the juices are drunk with their lusciousness, sick with over-sweetness. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art All healthy legislation lends itself to perpetual improvement; that the enactments of articles of belief cannot be reconsidered, is a sign of rottenness. Practical Essays The conditions in Germany which had called forth the terrible arraignment of petty despotism, crushing militarism, and political rottenness generally, in the works of Lenz, Klinger and Schubart, had not abated. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry In his efforts to attain a yellow manner, Rembrandt merely achieved an effect of rottenness.... Rembrandt It is this—God has, in no instance, promised eternal to unbelievers; and unless you can prove that the promise does extend to them, your arguments must fall like rottenness to the ground. Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation "I am beginning to find out my rottenness." The Half-Hearted If I had the backing that land gives a man, I could clean out a lot of rottenness in the State. Lydia of the Pines "If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble!" Life of John Milton The hopes and prophecies were dead: they could not blossom where the feet Walked amid rottenness, or where the brawling shouters stamped the street. By Still Waters Lyrical Poems Old and New But in spite of all pious admonitions, the Interstate Commerce Commission yielded to the public clamor, and an investigation was made—revealing such conditions of rottenness as to shock even the clerical retainers of Privilege. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition You see the Church dashed to pieces in the seething vortex of destruction; in some countries honey-combed to rottenness, ready to totter and fall before the first outburst of Socialistic fury. The Young Priest's Keepsake Wading through the mephitic rottenness of these ancient chronicles, one is seized with nausea. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation Rather when the frost is on it, and the worm is in the core, and decay has progressed to rottenness! Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia I cannot plead much greater affection for the lucubrations of Amiel than for Count Tolstoi’s dealings with that odd compound of crudity and rottenness, the Russian nature; but Mr Arnold’s “Amiel” is admirable. Matthew Arnold In trials, such as those related above, the noblest traits of character or the hollowness and rottenness of a profession are often plainly seen. Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days Soon its pretty leaves were waterlogged, and it sank down to bed with the grassy rottenness beside the whitish grasses. The Judge It all comes out—all his viciousness and rottenness and blackguardism. The Exiles and Other Stories Our world has obviously awakened to the rottenness in Denmark. Preaching and Paganism The attractive warmth and color and richness are found to be but rottenness and decay. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis A kiss," replied she, with scorn; "no, Japhet, look upon me, for it is the last time you will behold my youth; look upon me as a sepulchre, fair without but unsavoury and rottenness within. Japhet, in Search of a Father From some submerged rottenness caught in the log bubbles slowly floated up through the dark water, wavered a little under the glassy surface, and then popped up and made a dirty trail of spume. The Judge The Condottiere system, born of sloth and luxury, has proved its rottenness. Machiavelli, Volume I Moderate party.In this state of general rottenness among subjects, and of delusion and false politics in princes, comes a new experiment. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) "It's the rottenness of the whole blooming show," he said doggedly. One Man in His Time The very beauty and purity of the fraternal relation cloaks the miserable rottenness of the imitation. Bressant The whole strength of the government at Ottawa was at once concentrated in keeping the lid on that smouldering cauldron of stench and rottenness, the system of practical politics of that day. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics Above the surface and to the eye all was smiling and prosperous, but within was rottenness and misery. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Then he proceeds to explain further the rottenness of the Condottiere system. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Was not the fact of its decay the sign of some secret disintegration, of rottenness at the core? One Man in His Time The rottenness of her cordage, and the raggedness of her sails, filled them with surprise and pity for my condition. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time What a rottenness at the core is here betrayed! The Awakening of China Next year came the famine, revealing in an instant the rottenness of the economic foundations upon which the welfare of Ireland depended. The Framework of Home Rule It is the sun, on the contrary, that is the active agent in developing the germs of rottenness, the ferment of vice! The Cathedral She tried to work it out that way, and what came of it except more rottenness? One Man in His Time We simply asked for some firmly-based official recognition of the rottenness of the 'slavery plank in the Southern platform,' and trusted that the utmost caution and deliberation would be observed in eventually forwarding emancipation. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The existence of the fault helped him a good deal, as the percolation of water at this point had oxidized the stone to rottenness. The Wings of the Morning All thy gods shall bite the dust, All thy golden godlets must Sink to rottenness and rust, Babylon! Soldier Songs and Love Songs All the wealth of the world was poured into Rome, the home of Stoic philosophy, and it was smothered, and died in rottenness under its material prosperity. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 It's so easy, isn't it? to dress up one's rottenness in pretty sentimental twaddle. The Devil's Garden His reign is a monument to the rottenness of Rome; his fall, a proof, perhaps, of the soundness of the provinces. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It had often been predicted by writers on the state of Ireland, that, owing to the rottenness at the foundation of the social fabric, it would come down with a crash some day. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Jean was prepared; without a moment's hesitation he cut the anchor-rope: his craft drifted onwards, leaving the fisherman grumbling at the rottenness of his tackle. The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century Better slavery to hard taskmasters than rottenness from inertia. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Then it appeared from sea to sea one mass of unvaried rottenness and decay. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 He adds: "Some have tried lime dust, and pits aired with tiles, and in a few days have found a mass of rottenness." The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines Externally, they were fairly eligible as candidates for Chelaship, as appearances go; but "within all was rottenness and dead men's bones." Five Years of Theosophy It is Death that is present here; Death that is before my eyes; Death that delivers and saves one from all rottenness. Abbe Mouret's Transgression He gasped for breath, he seemed to inhale a heavy air that reeked of decay and rottenness, and the odor of the clay was in his nostrils. The Hill of Dreams It's true I was always running away—as soon as I was old enough to realize the rottenness of life. Charles Rex When it is extinct, you have decay and rottenness. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson And if from one season's rottenss, rottenness they sow again, rottenness must they reap. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Woe in the dark house, in the rottenness of the grave, when the children's children shall revile the ashes of the fathers! Twice Told Tales Perhaps—who knows—it may take the taste of rottenness out of my mouth. Charles Rex Oppression pervades their bowels; and while they exhibit a fair exterior to the other parts of the world, they are nothing more than "painted sepulchres," containing within them nought but rottenness and corruption. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 "But, touched aright, prompt yields each particle its tongue Of elemental flame—no matter whence flame sprung, From gums and spice, or else from straw and rottenness." Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher If she lives she'll only infect more people with her rottenness. The Dark House Borrow's depths are dark and tortuous, but never miasmic; and as we grope our way through them, we may stumble upon treasures, but never upon rottenness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 But while he sat in the boat, and was bending over the thwart with a light, there was a gulping sound out at sea, and then came such a vile stench of rottenness. Weird Tales from Northern Seas The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. The Duel and Other Stories Love has always the same potency, flame is always flame, "no matter whence flame sprung, From gums and spice, or else from straw and rottenness." Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher At all times, even when the stems appear to be in good health, a sharp look-out should be kept for patches of rottenness in the stem, and especially about its base. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation He thought it unfair to judge of what these monasteries were in their periods of youth and vigor, from the rottenness of their decay. The Personal Life of David Livingstone Associated words: trochilics, trochilic. rotate, v. revolve, turn, gyrate, whirl. rotation, n. turning, revolution; succession. rotten, a. decayed, putrid, putrescent, carious, corrupt, decomposed, putrefied; malodorous, fetid. rottenness, n. putrefaction. Putnam's Word Book I went round the ship with the officers in their examination, and was excessively surprised to see the state of rottenness in which the timbers were found. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 He that sits in the seat of the scornful and is girded about with pride, let him fall as the tree falls, even the king of the forest, for there is rottenness at the core. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 The rulers hold by rottenness, and the people leap into the abyss, and nobody knows why this is, or why that is. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Sanitary revolutionists and incendiaries accuse us of gorging rottenness, and battening on corruption. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 Yet we do not advise the immediate disturbance of this venerable piece of rottenness and absurdity. Famous Americans of Recent Times They say the public demands a certain grade of rottenness in Western films, but I never believed that, down deep in my heart. The Phantom Herd This is not American civilization; it is the rottenness of Gomorrah. Architecture and Democracy All this support made the Bourbon régime look not insecure to those on the spot, who failed to understand the complete rottenness of its foundations. Cavour South America," said Wilmot, "is full of just such rottenness as you describe. The Penalty Geoffrey," said his friend very quietly, "let us try to put these women and all their rottenness out of our heads. Kimono In many places the wheels of the carts sank to the axletrees in consequence of the rottenness of the ground near the creeks. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 It is decadence of the spirit in its most revolting form; it is rottenness of the heart and corruption of the mind. Architecture and Democracy With sighs does every true heart confess that rottenness is somewhere; but, ah! it is hopeless of reform. The United States in the Light of Prophecy And now, when we have borne and borne and borne and borne with him, and he shows up, all at once, in all his rottenness, you say let him alone! The Grandissimes I found to my disgust that bad eggs would ruin the good ones; but that many good ones could not take the rottenness from even one of the bad. The Gentleman from Everywhere In a short time I had the world again lying at my feet, but, being so forsaken, I soon recognized its whole rottenness. The Three Comrades I wondered and began to look at and inquire about him, and soon discovered that his whole panoply of moral power was a shell—that his life was full of rottenness. Half a Century But the mischief is proceeding all the same, despite that flattering appearance; outwardly the bark looks smooth and healthy, but probe the hole and the rottenness is working inwards. Hodge and His Masters "It is the warmth of things and moisture, and rottenness—rottenness." The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories But all the same it seems to me that I laid a finger upon the rottenness of my soul and that of humanity. Without Dogma But the secret power of the organization surprised me, though I knew very well the political influence at election time which the rottenness of our politics gave them. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II That secret rottenness of our public life, that hidden conclave which sells honours, fouls finance, muddles public affairs, fools the passionate desires of the people, and ruins honest men by obscure campaigns would become impossible. An Englishman Looks at the World Nevertheless, he had read in his Bible this passage: 'As the worm gnaweth the garment and rottenness the wood, so doth the weariness of solitude gnaw the heart of man.' The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe The same great frauds have indicated in each the same amount of rottenness in men occupying places of trust. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Here a sweet laughing face surmounts the hideous body of an imp, there the bright scales of an unearthly armour shrivel to rottenness and dust. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." She would cling to him and cover him with the blossoms of her affection; nay, if there were unsoundness in the stem, these very blossoms would cover the rottenness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII To Byron’s mind, the decay and rottenness of the old was, perhaps, the most palpable; to Shelley’s, the possible glory of the new. Literary and General Lectures and Essays I thought the building could never even be pulled down, but in one adhesive heap of rottenness and poster. Reprinted Pieces But Amory was beyond that now; he turned off the street and darted into an alley, narrow and dark and smelling of old rottenness. This Side of Paradise Doth he not dry and shrivel up filth and rottenness, and give light to dark places, himself the while unharmed and incapable of receiving any defilement? Barlaam and Ioasaph The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine. Oliver Twist Suppose in the midst of such boasting and confidence there came some turn I did not suspect, some rottenness he had concealed from me? Tono Bungay I was buried in rottenness, and at the same time I looked for virgins, whose purity was worthy of me! The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Out of the rottenness of these things, there has sprung up in Boston a sect of philosophers known as Transcendentalists. American Notes The water was gone, and he looked only at a curved track of mud—of mud soft and black, hiding fever, rottenness, and evil under its level and glazed surface. An Outcast of the Islands For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature Scorning the sensual, always against the vulgar, in much the same manner as Carlyle, Brann stuck the gaffles of truth deep into the sides of wrong in high places, and exposed rottenness wherever found. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 He saw the sins of high society in New York and London, the rottenness of autocracy in Russia, the world war boiling beneath the surface in the cauldron of Europe's misery. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 She knew something and suspected more of the rottenness and inefficiency of Spain, and, were Russia a nation of Rezanovs, what opposition in California against the tide thundering down from the north? Rezanov And the various phases of the scandal gave the press a multitude of texts for satirical, or pessimistic, or fiery discourses upon the public and private rottenness of "plutocrats." The Cost There could be but one reason for the flight of Lorella's daughter—rottenness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas His speech was dirty, with a kind of rottenness. Sons and Lovers My saturated garments were dragging me down, and now I could hear the flames hungrily eating into the ancient rottenness overhead. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The rottenness of these historical documents reminded him that he was not, after all, hastening on to begin the morning practically as he had intended. Jude the Obscure Or you can gratify your natural taste for rottenness and at the same time get up in the world. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise All life had turned to rottenness and stench in them—love was a beastliness, joy was a snare, and God was an imprecation. The Jungle Cut the heart out of me, will you—you scum of rottenness? In the Sargasso Sea A Novel Perhaps he had seen through the rottenness of Rome, perhaps the trial of Gaius' mad escapades had deepened his nature, and led him to honor the burning faith of the Jews. Josephus That blood assumes a black pulpy appearance, commonly indicated by the term of 'rottenness', an indication or consequence of the violence of the disease, and the hopelessness of the case. The Dog Am I not merry over thee and the world—in that ye are both rottenness to the core?' Wilfrid Cumbermede You, tomorrow, must don your saintly garb and hide under it your rottenness and foulness. The Bride of Dreams By what a system of falsehood and petty tyrannies were we governed through the reigns of James I. and Charles I.! What periods of rottenness and danger there have been since! The Life of Cicero Volume One She can see nothing but excellence where others see nothing but shallowness and rottenness. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays All this rottenness isolated, detached the members of the poor body from one another. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Their misty minds but harbor rottenness Loathsome and fetid, and all barrenness— Their deeds to ashes turn, and, hydra-bred, The mystic skeleton is theirs to dread. Poems Still glorious outwardly, like the Roman empire itself, was that great city of Trêves; but inwardly it was full of rottenness and weakness. The Hermits Hence, by the way, Byron's famous lines,— "It seem'd the mockery of hell to fold The rottenness of eighty years in gold." The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Puritanism," Bently threw in irrelevantly, and because he liked the sound of it, "Puritanism is the preliminary rottenness of New England. The Pagans In India, in addition to its inherent rottenness, it has the merit of being two-thirds sham; looking pretty on paper only. Indian Tales Ah, a man wouldn't mind getting a bit of indigestion from that sort of rottenness. L'Assommoir "For God's sake tell me what you want—tell me what you want," she cried, "and let me get away from all this rottenness." The Far Horizon About the same time four or five of the lower stairs gave way from rottenness, so that it needed no little agility to reach the bedrooms. Two Summers in Guyenne We made clean the outside of the platter, but the so-called purity of England was a smug sham built upon rottenness and sin! The Christian A Story Could there be such rottenness and corruption if the 'salt' had not 'lost his savour'? Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The subject of The Pillars of Society was the hollowness and rottenness of those supports, and the severe and unornamented prose which Ibsen now adopted was very favorable to its discussion. Henrik Ibsen The enemies of all true life, out-of-date Liberals who are afraid of their own independence, the flunkeys of thought, the enemies of individuality and freedom, the decrepit advocates of deadness and rottenness! The Possessed (The Devils) Oh, wise woman, truly did you see the rottenness in this king! Imaginations and Reveries I should as soon think of seeking revelations of the future state in the rottenness of the grave,—where so many do seek it. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. One infallible way of judging of the rottenness or goodness of our actions is that we should bring them where they will all be brought one day, into the brightness of Christ's countenance. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The soul that trusts Him He takes in charge, and before any evil can fall to it 'the pillared firmament must be rottenness, and earth be built on stubble.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII All the disease, and poison, and rottenness in the world, could not have made His body decay; mountains on mountains could not have kept it down. Twenty-Five Village Sermons If a river should be turned into some dark cave where unclean beasts have herded and littered for years, the bright waters would sweep out on their bosom all the filth and rottenness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms If that were the end of a Christian life, then 'the pillared firmament were rottenness, and earth's base built on stubble.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Such rottenness obtains in Brazilian law that not long since a judge sued in court a man who had bribed him and sought to evade paying the bribe. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America The moral was that any substitute for a purely spiritual religion is fatal, and, sooner or later, reveals its rottenness. Confessions and Criticisms The assembly then proceeded to undo all the evil and clean out all the rottenness that had disgraced the conduct of their predecessors. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 The whole miserable household strife teaches the rottenness of the polygamous relation on which it rested, and the folly of paternal favouritism. Expositions of Holy Scripture A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Other nails and cords are supplied in their place, and the rottenness is cast away. The Grip of Desire And again, figs when they are quite ripe gape open; and in the ripe olives the very circumstances of their being near to rottenness adds a peculiar beauty to the fruit. Seekers after God Abel, sounded the gamut of rottenness in his efforts to convict the accused men without the semblance of a fair trial. The Centralia Conspiracy Flowers grow on a dunghill, and the very reeking rottenness may make the bloom finer. Expositions of Holy Scripture The earth is corrupt, science only serves to show its rottenness. Doctor Pascal He has so strong a natural affection to anything that is old, that he may truly say to dust and worms, "You are my father;" and to rottenness, "Thou art my mother." Character Writings of the 17th Century You fostered the social rottenness without sowing an idea. The Reign of Greed Thus one acquires crime as a habit, a product of social rottenness, due to the ineffective measures for the prevention and repression of crime. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 And perhaps that is one reason why Providence permitted their despotism to pass away,--preferring the rude anarchy of the Germanic nations to the dead mechanism of a lifeless Church and imperial rottenness. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 05 The Middle Ages Not all, or nearly all, the soldiers are going to be vitally affected by the rottenness of great cities or by the mushroom hotbeds of vice springing up near the camps. The Desert of Wheat Who can possibly conceive mere rottenness being cured by progress in rottenness; or a man drinking himself into temperance? The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) Vast, however, and admirably organized as the fabric of Roman power appeared on the frontiers and in the provinces, there was rottenness at the core. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) The Whigs, on the other hand, saw the rottenness of England as a cause that would incite her to revolution also, and they advocated reform while yet there was time. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Here we saw, in one morning, the splendor and the rottenness of the Romish system. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 No fact is more significant of the utter rottenness of the Spanish rule than the unanimity of the people in their discontent. Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot The tomb which covered so much rottenness was again opened and to my consternation the whole truth came out to overwhelm me. The Social Cancer After contemplating for a time the rottenness of the world, he came back to the point from which he had started. Uneasy Money This Spirit will burn His way through all obstacles of flesh and blood, of forms, proprieties, and respectabilities—of death, and rottenness of all descriptions! Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 He is a blind nut without profit; he is ill-smelling rottenness, he is a withered tree; he is a wild apple branch without blossom; he that is not doing the will of the King. The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish The rottenness and dust and displacement by mere decay, looked enough to scare even the ghosts, if they had any scare left in them. Warlock o' Glenwarlock The rottenness of stillborn love in the heart of a child poisons the blood of the soul, and hence, later, crime. The Fair Haven The sooner she dies of her own rottenness the better; but let her die a natural death. Senator North Beauty death turns to rottenness, And youth to wrinkled face; The witty he brings to distress, And wantons to disgrace. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Why, the rottenness of this country is a proverb. Captain Macklin We have to work in this rottenness all the time, and some of us don't like it, I can tell you. The Moneychangers "So that they will be able to run the industries when the system of greed breaks down of its own rottenness." They Call Me Carpenter So let Brother Daniels marry us to keep all the rottenness in the family. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet It is seldom that I give heed to the like, but the delicious rottenness revealed by this tale enforced my hearing, and fixed the details in my mind. At Last The Russian row is beginning, and the rottenness of English administration will soon, I suppose, have an opportunity of displaying itself. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 It yielded in its rottenness with a crash. The Ear in the Wall Our sportsmen gave chase to ten emus and a kangaroo on Albinia Downs: but the rottenness of the ground prevented their capture: rather tantalizing to hungry stomachs! Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Where they were not alive with rottenness, quick with unclean life, there were merely the unburied dead—clean and noble, like well-preserved mummies, but not alive. Revolution, and Other Essays In the rottenness of their brotherhood he told of his visit, of the manner of his reception, and of the incident at the chasm. Baree, Son of Kazan "We had a chance to go to the high court with a case that would open up the whole rottenness in this state before we got done fighting, and you have sold out!" The Landloper They need not touch the rottenness of this half-dead carcass with knife or poultice. Cast Adrift Needless to burden description with further detail; the slum was like any other slum; filth, rottenness, evil odours, possessed these dens of superfluous mankind and made them gruesome to the peering imagination. The Nether World If the War can teach us any lessons, as a nation—and sometimes I doubt whether it will—it ought at least to teach us the essential vicious rottenness of our present educational system. The Red Planet For a lie contains in itself the germ of rottenness which shall kill—and the evil-doer is not strong but weak, because cowardly. The Master-Christian All had a secret sense of power, and of inexpressible destructiveness, and of fatal half-heartedness, a sort of rottenness in the will. Women in Love Vast however, and admirably organized as the fabric of Roman power appeared on the frontiers and in the provinces, there was rottenness at the core. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo The rottenness of the federal government didn't anger them. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich On that afternoon she came to me, as I have told you, with her strawberries and her declaration of the rottenness of life. The Red Planet "In the bog everything smells of rottenness!" said the Little Russian with a sigh. Mother The poet's business is to distil it out of rottenness, and show that it is all one spirit, the thing that keeps the stars in their place.... Huntingtower The outrages of the Turks had been so flagrant that no allies came to their aid, while the rottenness of their empire was shown by the rapid advance of the Russian armies. A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict Then, naturally, speaking of the rottenness of the federal government had led them to talk of the rottenness of the state legislature. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich But it is the wish and the declaration of a man whom anguish and disappointment have driven to despair, and who is daily decaying into the grave with constitutional rottenness. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis It showed up the rottenness and corruption of the instruments through which the Russian government functioned. The Inspector-General In the midst of this rottenness, the Calvinistic churches, patient and stern, were fast gathering to themselves the better life of the nation. Pioneers of France in the New World The tame submission to the belief that the rottenness of the grave is the end of all is characteristic of ages of decadence and mediocrity. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) At the end of a month, three of my grubs turn brown and lapse into rottenness. More Hunting Wasps An open grave, smelling of death and rottenness—— Ah, what matter, so he could but sleep! The Gadfly They are coated inside with a dark glaze, the remains of the dead maggot converted into black rottenness. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography That lust of the evil-speaking tongue which gives Quick breath to deadly lies, and stings to life The rottenness of falsehood, when it lives, Falls dumb, and leaves the lie to bring forth strife. Locrine: a tragedy O rottenness, O monstrousness of life, and depth of death! could I like what I might not, only because I might not? The Confessions of St. Augustine This is not the place to show how far the paganism of Greece and Rome had corrupted society, and how complete was its rottenness at the time. Irish Race in the Past and the Present Beneath all this external rottenness moved the old-time Dark Forces, unchanged since the fall of Nicholas the Second, secret still and very active. Ten Days That Shook the World Besides, all this untoward heat and precocity often argues rottenness and a falling-off. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Were it not wiser for us to step aside and watch until a certain time how rottenness is multiplying and choking those that are strangers to us? The Man Who Was Afraid Meanwhile the coalition, which the Third Party on one side and the Pope on the other were trying to dissolve, was in no small danger of falling to pieces from mere rottenness. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 He could as yet work only with the machinery which he had found; and the machinery which he had found was all rust and rottenness. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 It feeds upon the passion it inflames, and fattens on the holiest sentiments, turned by its touch to filth and rottenness. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes The old chap has forgiven her for every bit of her rottenness to him. Further Adventures of Lad A finger poked through it, and it broke away in rustling flakes of ashy rottenness. Actions and Reactions The world knows him as a revolutionary writer whose savage irony has laid bare the rottenness of the most respectable institutions. A Set of Six Look at the gilded and painted exterior displayed by any large community, and think what it really conceals!--emptiness and rottenness, if I may say so; no foundation of morality beneath it. Pillars of Society I mean its extreme porousness, considered independently by the worm-eaten condition which is a consequence of navigation in these seas, and apart from the rottenness attendant upon age. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Under good guidance, especially if bred to strict silence, he might have been in some measure a luminous object,—not as now a phosphorescent one, shining by its mere rottenness! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 New York or Paris might be whatever one pleased -- venal, sordid, vulgar -- but society nursed there, in the rottenness of its decay, certain anarchistic ferments, and thought them proof of art. The Education of Henry Adams Would that a storm came and shook all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree! Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none The sight of you makes me feel my rottenness. The Path of the King And I think we shall be preserved from the Pope by the rottenness of the Church; from the drapeau rouge by the indignation and horror of all honest men. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English If this fail, The pillared firmament is rottenness, &c. The Poetical Works of John Milton The clean, upstanding trees cry shame upon them and their withered crookedness, and their rottenness is a slimy desecration of the sweetness and purity of nature. The People of the Abyss Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 The Egyptians, from the earliest time, were devoted to the joys of sense; Arbaces inherited both their appetite for sensuality and the glow of imagination which struck light from its rottenness. Last Days of Pompeii And perhaps that is one reason why Providence permitted their despotism to pass away,—preferring the rude anarchy of the Germanic nations to the dead mechanism of a lifeless Church and imperial rottenness. Beacon Lights of History Haven't you and I, for instance, lamented the present rottenness of smart society? Lady Baltimore With his help the young generation perceived the rottenness of the Administration, and the meanness, stupidity, dishonesty, and worthlessness of the landed proprietors, whom he made the special butt of his ridicule. Russia The drizzle that fell upon the corpses softened them, and soon made the plain one broad tract of rottenness. Salammbo The feeling of mental rottenness and insecurity that had weakened his thought through the period of his illness, had gone. Soul of a Bishop I found none clean, noble, and alive, though I found many who were alive—with rottenness. The Iron Heel I cannot abide in this smug city, I cannot endure its self-complacency, its routine, its gloss of success, its rottenness.... The Research Magnificent With her the rottenness that is allowed to ferment among the populace is carried upward and rots the aristocracy. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。