dryrot

Truth is, the top's always down because the damn thing got dryrot and he ripped it all off long ago.

The Elvis Latte 2010

The Queen of the Jewel Cities was old and decadent and mad, filled with the stench of degeneracy and moral dryrot.

The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

Myles with a keen and searching look, as though to pierce to the very bottom of the young man's heart, and discover if indeed not one little fragment of dryrot of fear or uncertainty tainted the solid courage of his knighthood.

Men of Iron 1891

But when the lust of gain began to creep like a fever into the blood of those with whom worldly riches should be as nothing compared to the riches of the mind, the heart, and the spirit, then the dryrot of hypocrisy set in -- then came craftiness, cruelty, injustice, and pitilessness, and such grossness of personal conduct as revolts even the soul of an admitted sinner.

The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

Myles with a keen and searching look, as though to pierce to the very bottom of the young man's heart, and discover if indeed not one little fragment of dryrot of fear or uncertainty tainted the solid courage of his knighthood.

Men of Iron Howard Pyle 1882

She would rather have suffered anything than that slow suspense, that corroding anxiety, that metaphysical dryrot in which heart and mind seemed to decay under an insufferable torture.

Lady Audley's Secret 1875

There is no other despondency like this; it is a new shade of human misery, akin to the physical disease that comes from dryrot in a wall.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

There is no other despondency like this; it is a new shade of human misery, akin to the physical disease that comes from dryrot in a wall.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834