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If exposed to heat and roasted it does not become hard, because though earthy in nature it is only so in the same way as wax is; accordingly on heating too much the eggs become watery and rotten,
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They _know_ our best ships are dismantled or rotten,
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Beautiful marble and vines, beautiful rest-room and library -- for the _visitors_ to rest and read in -- beautiful restaurant where the girls must buy their meals at the company's prices or go without; beautiful outside everywhere; but it's rotten,
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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And lo, in that grey storehouse, fallen to dust and rotten,
Alcyone Archibald Lampman 1880
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Or you [Shakespeare] survive when I in Earth am rotten,
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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Here, where earth with dead men's bones is rotten,
Studies in Song Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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But now with our horses, what sound and what rotten,
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2 George Gilfillan 1845
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But now with our horses, what sound and what rotten,
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Recoiling in disgust from Josh's wool that is rotten,
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Recoiling in disgust from Josh's wool that is rotten,
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