Though long have they mouldered to dust in their graves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference

| I should hear, though dead and mouldered, and the grave-damps |.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Juliana's were very old, but one part of her that had not mouldered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sanctuary Sparrow]

Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

Would you like a slice of mouldered cake to go with your clotted milk?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Displays That Time Forgot] Reference

The bones of tiny animals mouldered within, or birds preserved in brine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

Whatever garments he had worn had long since mouldered away to fragments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

"Yes, the world has rushed on, while we mouldered here," he answered grimly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Magee would have mouldered away in his grave by now had he be dealt justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Tebbit Refuses to Forgive Brighton Bomber] Reference

If it had mouldered under me, surely, I should have been waked by the collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House on the Borderland] Reference

He leaped into a rotten old punt that's mouldered therefor years and pushed off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Moons] Reference

They proceeded to an eminence near the camp, where mouldered the bones of many warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The antechamber beyond lay heaped with broken furnishings and the mouldered skeleton of a cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

The evil is not dead, though they who wrought it have long mouldered in their forgotten graves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

Unrecognised and unpitied, it was borne to the grave; and there it has long since mouldered away!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

"I suppose the things like robes and cloaks and shoes have all mouldered away," said Dinah regretfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Adventure]

His skull is yet standing over the Rikargate, 61 and even its bleak and mouldered jaws command you to be a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

Senor Molins had seen better days and now mouldered away in a filthy first-floor office on Calle Floridablanca.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Wind]

My bones long since have mouldered in the dust, but, where they lie, the little lizards bear a red cross on their heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Undoubtedly, atoms of the old, decayed furniture helped to swell its bulk; and, somewhere among it all, mouldered the long-ago-dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House on the Borderland] Reference

Since it's behind the line of the Roman wall, I suppose the rubble could have mouldered gently away in front of it for a long time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chester in the seventh century: the fortress defences] Reference

Waves combed vacant beaches, and the crabbed, uprooted apple trees of Telshire mouldered like arthritic skeletons in dusty beds of soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

Perhaps, I thought to myself, a childless fellow, who spoiled old age with sighs and complaints, and as his life waned the walls mouldered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armenian Literature] Reference

Who saw the narrow sunbeam that came out of the south, and smote upon their summits until they melted and mouldered away in a dust of blue rain?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

Human nature is ever the same, and the motives and feelings which swayed the generations who have mouldered back to dust are still felt and acknowledged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference

The walls of Beauchief Abbey, with the exception of the west end, represented in the Cut, have long since either been removed, or have mouldered into dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832] Reference

If he had not lived as regularly as the sun moves in the Heavens, he should long ago have mouldered to dust, so as not to be distinguished from common Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams diary 19, 16 December 1772 - 18 December 1773] Reference

And when the old building shall have mouldered into ruins, even these will be trodden with veneration as sacred to the recollection of genius of the highest order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] Reference

If ever my scorn hath scattered mouldered words to the winds, and if I have come like a besom to cross – spiders, and as a cleansing wind to old charnel – houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

She said but little, and though her sweet face has mouldered many years beneath the Southern daisies, her look of grief I can still see across the years of a third of a century.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference

The bones of the rest mouldered in the forests of Bulgaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

You are right to honour the mouldered tombstones with fresh flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference

His body ached, even the leg which so long ago had mouldered in its shallow grave on a battle-field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Live the King!] Reference

The piano in Bezuquet's shop mouldered away under a green fungus, and the Spanish flies dried upon it, belly up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference