Where rangd in mouldering order lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 61] Reference

Although (he writes) “Mine have been anything but studious hours,” he professes to have received great solace from those “repositories of 'mouldering' learning.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Lamb]

Of the long front, each coped with mouldering flags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference

“Working a passage through the mouldering stones.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

"'The mouse behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd.'".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

His body lies mouldering, his soul is among the blest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

And now their bones lie mouldering beneath Nebraska's skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference

But who shall establish the identity of a mouldering skeleton?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Ringmer come rusty shield bosses and the mouldering skull of an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

Cobwebs and mouldering walls were the principal ornaments left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference

Do avoid the crumbling, mouldering garage of asbestos, won't you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Houses] Reference

What had evidently been the door was torn away, and lay mouldering on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference

It does not wear its antiquity as an excuse for sinking into mouldering uselessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

Morgan came to Temple Bar, and saw, with a shudder, a row of mouldering heads atop of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

The mouldering earth is lightly scattered over the coffin, and the tomb is deserted by survivors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference

We took her gently up stairs, into the room where the lilies were mouldering to dust, and laid her down upon the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

All of them have left samples of their untutored skill in various angels and cherubs, now mouldering in old churchyards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

It is the tablet on which is inscribed the history of the present, and rescues from oblivion the mouldering records of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right of American Slavery] Reference

"But you have the newspapers," we remarked, horrified to think of a young intellect rotting and mouldering away in such a manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

Have you returned from holiday with unwanted currency, or got old foreign coins and notes mouldering away in the back of a drawer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How charity can use your unused foreign currency] Reference

Behind the little comfort company there floated three figures -- the three German soldiers whose bodies lie mouldering in the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

The Eastern sky is brightening with the beams of the morning sun, and its reflection tints each mouldering column with a purple light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

Scraping aside the loose sand and rubble, and raising the unfastened lid of the rough coffin, the mouldering skeleton was unrecognisable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

This small settlement failed, as is well-known, and the bones of the Genoese mariner who founded it have been mouldering in dust for centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

Protestant cemetery to the west of the city may still be trace among the graves the mouldering ramparts and trenches of this once warlike camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

Hence its lion-like mien; but it has known no warfare, and the castle's mouldering walls now give what assistance they can in harbouring live stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

He opened his door, looked into the depths that fell with mouldering steps into the basement and upwards to the flight where the Baron had been going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

Thousands approach it with reverent feet, not so much because of the body which lies mouldering there, but for the sake of the soul which is marching on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference

"John Brown's body lies mouldering in the clay," but his immortal name will be pronounced with blessings in all lands and by all people till the end of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

But the gods, at whose orders now I pass through this shadowy place, this land of mouldering overgrowth and deep night, the gods 'commands drove me forth; nor could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Bathe thyself anew in the vapors of the ideal realm; wreathe thy mouldering brow with the fair buds of spring; and float on before him, thou, once the beloved of the Poet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

There was the vast vault, dimly lighted by a single wax taper; around were many black and mouldering casks containing the juice of the grape, some of which was of a great age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference