Mouldering

You might use the quotation, 'John Brown's Body Lies A-Mouldering in the Grave'; that really sums it up. ''

The Undertaker's Racket 1969

You might use the quotation, 'John Brown's Body Lies A-Mouldering in the Grave'; that really sums it up. ''

The Undertaker's Racket 1963

Mouldering walls and decayed furniture, broken casements, falling roofs, and long ranges of uninhabited and uninhabitable apartments, winding stairs, dark galleries, and long arcades -- all combined to present to the mind in strong, though gloomy colours, a correct picture of the transitory nature of sublunary splendour.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 Various

While our father is fluttering about the streets of London, gay, dissipated, and Thoughtless at the age of 57, Matilda and I continue secluded from Mankind in our old and Mouldering Castle, which is situated two miles from Perth on a bold projecting Rock, and commands an extensive veiw of the Town and its delightful Environs.

Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

Mouldering at the foot of the cross was a grey woollen

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Mouldering at the foot of the cross was a grey woollen German tunic from which the buttons had been cut.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909

Mouldering arches, fallen columns, buried palaces, empty tombs, and slaves treading on the dust of the conquerors of the world, are all that now remain of Imperial Rome.

Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

Mouldering skulls and skeletons, bleaching in some dark ravine, or near the traces of a hunting camp, occasionally mark the scene of a foregone act of blood, and let the wanderer know the dangerous nature of the region he is traversing.

A Tour on the Prairies. 1835

Mouldering in the back of the changing-room lockers with the peroxide bottles and those strips of sticking plaster players used to wear across their hooters apparently to increase oxygen intake.

The Guardian World News Harry Pearson 2010

Bodies composed of fluff Mouldering and frail enough;

The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1781