Word: decayed
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...braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light of the parlor and enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good...
...Washington Elm, preserved until its decay as a memorial of the spot on the west of the Cambridge Common where George Washington took command of the Continental, Army in the Revolutionary War, may be reproduced in an enduring form, if plans materialize which A. F. Blanchard '04 has proposed to the Massachusetts State Legislature, in which he is a representative from Cambridge...
...ward has the smell of soiled bandages, disinfectants and decay. It was opened in 1869 when New York established the first ambulance service in the U. S. Its building, for decades muggy and stuffy, is older. De Witt Clinton, onetime (1803-15) Mayor of New York, laid the cornerstone in 1811. Grass spread about it then; the East River was a pleasant prospect. Now all is grime and noise...
...heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...
...made into sandwiches on wry bread buttered with rancid satire, it has pleased Author Russell to remember one of the old giants whose grotesqueries serve only to make him more magnificent, whose gaieties and gambles with disaster, whose foolish posings and conceited gestures, only make more regrettable the decay of so splendid and so irregular a period as that in which he flourished...