How can mere dry-rot compare with the mess in Afghanistan, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dry Rot] Reference

He would rather have that than flabby silence, as if he were nailing into dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

And there were gowns that somehow had escaped the moth and the mildew and dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phoenix And Ashes]

Wrapped up carefully to preserve it from damage and dry-rot was the old family cradle, of rosewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

A woman had to have the association of congenial people to keep her from falling into housekeeping dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

When public officials lie, the moral dry-rot can be wide-ranging, sometimes leading to catastrophic results (read: Iraq).    From Wordnik.com.  [Homage to I.F. Stone: Secrets & Lies] Reference

Their whole foundation, built on lies and fraud and corruption and in-your-face arrogance and bullying, has rampant dry-rot at the core.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take 'Em Down] Reference

While I maintain ambivalent feelings about this ancient pile of dry-rot, we have some stuff inside I'd hate to lose to a house fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow] Reference

The windows are open, and a warm, spiced wind flutters through in pleasantly successful disputation with odours of dry-rot and chilly earth and stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

In like manner the discipline used in the British fleet, while not less drastic, failed conspicuously to counteract the dry-rot introduced and fostered by the press-gang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Campville, and was already touched by its dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Briggs's Love Story] Reference

So long had the room been closed that dry-rot had set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Named Smith] Reference

So every precaution must be taken against dampness and dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines] Reference

I just after tellin 'ye there ain't no worse dry-rot for a soldier?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Souls of Men are Calling] Reference

As far as my reading has taken me, it seems to be the dry-rot of nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World Peril of 1910] Reference

In that case they have the dry-rot and the life dies out of them by degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

House, -- until her very brain was impregnated with the dry-rot of its timbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

The wood of the handle was honeycombed with the gnawings of worms, and dusty with dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales] Reference

One can't fault Matas for attempting to apply varnish to wood in the last stages of dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference

An economic dry-rot at the heart of a country is more terrible than excoriations on the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference

But Mr Frampton added yet another blow at the very heart of the dry-rot before the week was out.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference

But you can't patch up a dry-rot, and Bolsover crumbled more and more the oftener it was touched.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference

A few yards in the direction away from the Square, and Tysoe Street falls under the dominion of dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

So sure as the habit of concealment sets in, so surely we may be certain that the dry-rot of the soul has begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference

India was antiquated, honeycombed with dry-rot, and largely ruled by favorites sitting in high places at Whitehall.    From Wordnik.com.  [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference

He hated the dry-rot like poison, and could not rest till he had ripped up every board and rafter that harboured it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference

Mere doubt, without any resistance from the intuitive, non-discursive side of our nature, is the dry-rot of the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

And they have found that the word "classical" is not a synonym for dry-rot, but that it simply means the music that wears best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyful Heart] Reference

One man is struck with a dry-rot; another develops season-cracks; another shrinks and swells with every change of circumstance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference

It was like a tree which seems all vigorous, but which, when one thrusts into the heart of it, proves to be pervaded by dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion] Reference

Was that growing indifference of hers to dress and trips to the city, and seeing Eugenia's smart crowd there, a sign of mental dry-rot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brimming Cup] Reference

We are not fanatics, but a nation that has neither faith in itself nor faith toward others must soon crumble to pieces by moral dry-rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference