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It differs from melancholy and madness, because their dotage is without an ague: this continual, with waking, or memory decayed,
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There 'was' he, where of branches rent and withered and decayed,
THE NORMAN BOY 1888
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All feverish wishes, raw and inconclusive desires, have died down, and a calm beauty and peace survive; passions are dead, temptations weakened or conquered; experience has been won; selfish interests are widened into universal ones; vain, idle hopes, have merged into a firmer faith or a complete knowledge; and more light has broken in upon the soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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When about eighteen years old, the glass trade becoming decayed,
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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To the church where the bones of our fathers decayed,
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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She knew 'twas her love, though his cheek was decayed,
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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"land where nothing grew"; and in primitive times it was a region of destruction and death, a place where the dead rotted and decayed,
The Book of the Dead 1895
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