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    1. revealing a shabby hovel of a place that reeked of decay and mould


    2. After the joy and exaltation of awakening, the Countess stayed true to her upbringing for some years, making the best that she could out of the debilitation and decay around her


    3. The stench of wet decay was almost a comfort


    4. Would three Elements be enough to turn the tide of decay, sufficient even to save the world? Unable to answer any of these questions, I carefully put the Element away in my belt and lie back on my bunk, staring at the ceiling of the cabin


    5. of phased decay that leeches into the walls,


    6. But the whole explanation hinges on the ability of entangled particles in decay bacteria to transmit a human soul


    7. Typical of this decay


    8. That channel thru entanglement in the decay bacteria has been supplying a richer source of souls with every step forward in evolution and every increase in human population


    9. She told them about the Wetat, she told them how they believe it lifts souls thru decay bacteria entangled with higher order condensates in the dark matter


    10. I would speculate that our cryo-slicing technique has taken the brain, and therefore the soul, before their decay bacteria could spread thruout the brain and get a read out

    11. The stink of stale air and decomposing green matter mixes with rat piss and the decay of human flesh


    12. The officer is swooning under a heavy cloud, in a melange of earth and metal, of maggot meal and black decay


    13. She is pinned to the harsh walls of the domestic mausoleum by creeping vines, smothered in the leaf mould decay covering the floor of the untamed land at her feet


    14. Haager had come along and updated his method, by adding a conversion plant that produced electricity, how she’d been worried the old pipes would leak, and finally he closed with the decay the place had under gone in the last few years


    15. The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so; but these symptoms seem to indicate sufficiently that there is no general decay


    16. As agriculture advances, the woods are partly cleared by the progress of tillage, and partly go to decay in consequence of the increased number of cattle


    17. The contrary circumstances, the neglect of cultivation and improvement, the fall in the real price of any part of the rude produce of land, the rise in the real price of manufactures from the decay of manufacturing art and industry, the declension of the real wealth of the society, all tend, on the other hand, to lower the real rent of land, to reduce the real wealth of the landlord, to diminish his power of purchasing either the labour, or the produce of the labour, of other people


    18. In some ancient cities, which either have been long stationary, or have gone somewhat to decay, you will sometimes scarce find a single house which could have been built for its present inhabitants


    19. It merely took a frenzied make out session to erase the emotional decay that had eaten at me earlier


    20. The country, therefore, could never become either richer or poorer by means of it, except so far as its prosperity or decay might indirectly influence the state of foreign trade

    21. They may flourish amidst the ruin of their country, and begin to decay upon the return of its prosperity


    22. Men in Imperial gear, ghostlike, chanting and smelling of decay? To say nothing of the banners, two more of which were recovered at the scene


    23. A nation may import to a greater value than it exports for half a century, perhaps, together; the gold and silver which comes into it during all this time, may be all immediately sent out of it; its circulating coin may gradually decay, different sorts of paper money being substituted in its place, and even the debts, too, which it contracts in the principal nations with whom it deals, may be gradually increasing; and yet its real wealth, the exchangeable value of the annual produce of its lands and labour, may, during the same period, have been increasing in a much greater proportion


    24. The boat-fishery; accordingly, which, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, was very considerable, and is said to have employed a number of seamen, not inferior to what the buss-fishery employs at present, is now gone almost entirely to decay


    25. The evidence of Naud visitation was everywhere in the two systems: moons and planets carelessly mined, automated refineries left here and there to rust and decay on the otherwise nicest real estate, having already clotted the atmospheres and generally made a mess of those worlds and their systems


    26. I could smell the decay, but it faded into the background quickly enough


    27. The causes of decay in other branches of foreign trade, which, by Sir Matthew Decker and other writers, have been sought for in the excess and improper mode of taxation, in the high price of labour, in the increase of luxury, etc


    28. The mercantile capital of Great Britain, though very great, yet not being infinite, and though greatly increased since the act of navigation, yet not being increased in the same proportion as the colony trade, that trade could not possibly be carried on without withdrawing some part of that capital from other branches of trade, nor consequently without some decay of those other branches


    29. The decay of that general trade may even frequently contribute to the advantage of their own private trade; as, by diminishing the number of their competitors, it may enable them both to buy cheaper, and to sell dearer


    30. That in the progress of improvement, the practice of military exercises, unless government takes proper pains to support it, goes gradually to decay, and, together with it, the martial spirit of the great body of the people, the example of modern Europe sufficiently demonstrates

    31. The decay of the concrete


    32. the mild air of decay and illumination only from headlights, reminded Danny of the outskirts of


    33. to rot, warps, cracks, decay, termite infestation and fading


    34. in the outdoor exposure without giving in to rot, decay, cracks and mold and termite infestations


    35. ‘Yes, thousands of years of radioactive decay


    36. There is technology which can nullify the natural decay process


    37. The expression ―Feet of Clay‖ implies a transitory, material existence that is essentially weak or flawed or (otherwise) subject to decay; contrasted with spiritual existence that is eternal, everlasting and timeless


    38. In the southwest, it was a sprawling mixture of heavy petro-chemical industry and post-industrial decay


    39. The tree had not rotted, falling from decay


    40. Preventing Tooth Decay And The Need For Filling

    41. What is tooth decay?


    42. Tooth decay is a disease process which softens and destroys the hard tissues of the tooth


    43. We have shown a direct relationship between stress and tooth decay


    44. The increased frequency of sugar in the diet leads to tooth decay


    45. It is true that there are many other factors in tooth decay, but this is the major factor and one over which we have direct control


    46. This is known to produce what is described as ‘rampant decay’ in the baby teeth where the entire set upper and lower are devastated by tooth decay


    47. The body is sown in dishonour, but raised in glory! Never again will the resurrected flesh and bone age, decay, get sick or die, ever again!


    48. decay, and her tears would fill a lake


    49. nostrils with the putrid stench of rot and decay


    50. interior, coated with decay, their grinding cogs and greasy pistons












































    1. How could she have possibly been left alone unattended all this time? All the crystal would have decayed ages ago


    2. broken and the decayed was sufficient to invest and to bank


    3. Would he notice less care in the rendering? Would things stop moving? An Angel civilization had never decayed before, he had no idea what to look for


    4. The money realised from this fire sale of the broken and the decayed was sufficient to invest and to bank


    5. It could be that fences had decayed along here, that was very possible


    6. It was covered with dead leaves and the soil they had decayed into


    7. and the parts having rusted, decayed in the earth,


    8. Italy still continues to command some sort of veneration, by the number of monuments of this kind which it possesses, though the wealth which produced them has decayed, and though the


    9. With each step he took, the plants at his feet blackened and decayed


    10. As arts and industry advanced, however, the authority of the chieftains gradually decayed, and the great body of the people had less time to spare for military exercises

    11. But the temporal power of the clergy, the absolute command which they had once had over the great body of the people was very much decayed


    12. The smell of these decayed corpses out here was overwhelming and half the time I had to hold my breath to stop throwing up and knew that I would never rid myself of this hellish smell


    13. Ranking with that warning he also said, apropos of war: „War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse


    14. The entire load of white-powder greed had taken flight, slapped the surface and sunk to the bottom, joining there the decayed ruins of Spanish galleons with similar cargoes, and returned Raul to the realities of Edgar’s unspeakable murder and the awful mess of Truman’s life


    15. The fact is, a solar flare that occurred in the late sixties has decayed back into the sun


    16. The city was all of polished white stone, mostly crumbling, ancient and decayed


    17. It is treated by the removal of the rotted (decayed) parts of the tooth and the replacement of the missing parts with a 'filling'


    18. The house at the end had partly burned as a result of decayed wiring


    19. Behind the counter, Velimir, now visibly decayed, presided


    20. to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, you shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places of it: 27 Who

    21. 10 And Judah said, the strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much


    22. 42 Now when Judas and his brothers saw that miseries were multiplied and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people and utterly abolish them; 43 They said one to another Let us restore the decayed fortune of our people and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary


    23. Lorna did as she was told but after repeatedly knocking on the old and decayed wooden door of the stone hut, got no response from inside


    24. And the sixth mountain was quite full of clefts some small and others large; and the clefts were grassy but the plants were not very vigorous but rather as it were decayed


    25. Now after all had withdrawn and were resting themselves I said to the Shepherd "What is the reason that the building of the tower was not finished? The tower; he answered; cannot be finished just yet until the Lord of it come and examine the building in order that if any of the stones be found to be decayed he may change them: for the tower is built according to his pleasure


    26. And when he struck them some of them became black as soot and some appeared as if covered with scabs and some cracked and some mutilated and some neither white nor black and some rough and not in keeping with the other stones and some having Every many] stains: such were the varieties of decayed stones that were found in the building


    27. "And those from the sixth mountain which had clefts large and small and decayed grass in the clefts who believed were the following: they who occupy the small clefts are those who bring charges against one another and by reason of their slanders have decayed in the faith


    28. had decayed and blistered open in places like the flesh of a


    29. that had almost entirely decayed, which had the markings of the


    30. The body was still there, and was decayed of course

    31. One skeleton wore what appeared to be a decayed and well-worn baseball glove


    32. The final casket lid burst open and there, snarling at me with rotted teeth, was the decayed skull of Roho, the witch doctor


    33. “You rotted decayed piece of crap! This was my life! It is my life! You took it all, so you could have a smoke? I quit! You bastard!”


    34. Their bodies decayed once they swallowed the toxic waters


    35. Inland towns decayed, leaving rotting concrete carcasses


    36. ” Decayed teeth rested behind the man’s lips as they curled into a smile


    37. It was a decayed place that had fallen into disuse


    38. Jesse knew that normally, her body would have already started to decayed by


    39. Her skin was leathery, her teeth decayed, her hair faded and colorless, and her look frightened


    40. Parents with children suffered without heat in thousands of dilapidated, one-room shacks that decayed on the street adjacent to Melton’s church while he pastored the city

    41. with each other and decayed


    42. universe is such that even if all the matter will eventually be decayed into


    43. Many of these protons decayed when both anti protons and


    44. She saw and smelled his decayed teeth as well as his


    45. The orbit has decayed since


    46. Feltus quickly surveyed the area and discovered a tree stump that was badly decayed though in a position next to several graves, which suggested it had long been used as a resting place while visiting the 348


    47. He laughed out loud in a demented, demonic sort of laugh, showing a set of filthy, decayed teeth


    48. had decayed with the passage of time, leaving only the rusting


    49. It smelt damp, decayed, charred


    50. Even the decayed flesh couldn’t mask the fact that she would once have been a most attractive young lady









































    1. Some insects help to improve the soil through aeration, while others help by generating compost from leaves and other decaying organic matter


    2. Once you have found signs of wood damage and you have determined that it’s not just old decaying wood then you have to decide if it’s termites or carpenter ants that you have


    3. MacKenzie’s eyes still flickered with the decaying embers of an old fire


    4. Lucy’s nostrils filled with the inevitable familiarity of the damp earth musk of the subterranean, of watered down piss pools, and the reek of old, decaying tobacco


    5. Ken and Eileen Roach lived on what had once been a decaying council housing estate in a small post-industrial town to the north-west of Birmingham, an estate that was by degrees being regenerated by a mixed bag of home owners, buy-to-let investors and housing trust managers


    6. Ken and Eileen Roach lived on what had once been a decaying


    7. Everything seems idyllically peaceful underneath the dilapidation of decaying human ingenuity


    8. Alan made her think of this song, for it told of a witch queen luring a guy from a distant star to a dark meeting house on some rain-soaked decaying waterfront, and from there pursuing him thru centuries and lifetimes to finally capture him on a windy hillside


    9. depiction of half-eaten and decaying corpses, and the


    10. He surveyed the decaying bridge, mulling it over with

    11. But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying


    12. In a fertile country, which had before been much depopulated, where subsistence, consequently, should not be very difficult, and where, notwithstanding, three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year, we maybe assured that the funds destined for the maintenance of the labouring poor are fast decaying


    13. The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so; but these symptoms seem to indicate sufficiently that there is no general decay


    14. In a decaying manufacture, on the contrary, many


    15. their wages would neither rise too high in the thriving, nor sink too low in the decaying


    16. Creatures scurried into the shadows as she entered, hiding within the crumbling walls and pieces of decaying furniture


    17. becomes out of the body? A decaying material! Of


    18. The progress is frequently so gradual, that, at near periods, the improvement is not only not sensible, but, from the declension either of certain branches of industry, or of certain districts of the country, things which sometimes happen, though the country in general is in great prosperity, there frequently arises a suspicion, that the riches and industry of the whole are decaying


    19. Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone


    20. To dream that you have rotting or decaying teeth implies that you may have said something that you shouldn’t have

    21. Since the establishment of the act of navigation, accordingly, the colony trade has been continually increasing, while many other branches of foreign trade, particularly of that to other parts of Europe, have been continually decaying


    22. In that indifferent space the image in his mind of himself decaying inside his suit


    23. For example, we know that fossils can only form if the object, that is fossilised, is encapsulated in an environment that would prevent decaying agents from reaching it


    24. These would bury animals and plants, rapidly cutting off exposure to decaying agents and allow the remains to fossilise during the subsequent years that followed


    25. Approaching the old factory, its mottled red brick facade, hiding nothing of what it truly is: old and decaying


    26. Stinking of urea, dead moss and decaying animal matter, the air was thick


    27. Borganst, Demorn, women, children, they lay all around, decaying, waiting to be consumed by nature and the elements


    28. It is often times, however, the result of self-destructive tendencies common to decaying cultures that have grown (morally) listless and (intellectually) indifferent to their (historic) traditions because of their (material) opulence, perhaps


    29. immigration policies are compromising the quality of life in areas where poverty, congestion, disease, drugs, crime, substandard housing and decaying infrastructures are demoralizing (complex) social and cultural arrangements (and civility) as an alarming number of our citizens are feeling alienated from mainstream conventions that no longer seem to provide any meaning


    30. America should seriously reassess the decrepit condition of its rapidly decaying interstate highways, many of which have grown exhausted, if not (functionally) depleted from wear and tear; dysfunctional anachronisms that are seemingly unable to meet the commuter requirements of rapidly expanding populations

    31. (Of course, the latter is arguably a sign of a decaying culture that has lost all sense of proportion) Dress, whether pricey or modest or falling somewhere in between, was always presentable and neat


    32. A lot of them might just be losers, maladjusted to life in a decaying metropolis that covered fifteen hundred light years from end to end, and with branches another six hundred long in several cases


    33. It was the smell of blood and decaying bodies


    34. The decaying remains of a number of oak trees lined the


    35. The frogs died in thousands and millions, the stink of their decaying bodies filled the


    36. I shall do everything it takes to rehabilitate his name, even if that means seeing his decaying corpse


    37. As the distance between them was reducing, Viktor could recognize that the shape was that of a decaying body and the smell coming from it was putrid


    38. The hand touched Viktor’s chest and all that the decaying body was feeling, Viktor started to feel


    39. The body had deep wounds from the decaying process and blood was hardened all along it


    40. What they saw was a body with deep decaying flesh

    41. of which they were so afraid? A thin layer of decaying leaves that lined


    42. themselves highly unstable; each existing for less than a billionth of a second before decaying


    43. Unlike all these miserable mortal creatures, you have unshackled yourself from the decaying material world and triumphed over death


    44. Decaying buildings line every street, each structure blending with the other


    45. Although I have my personal reasons for coming here, I cannot imagine why two high-ranking Administrators would want to spend their last living moments in a secluded and decaying cemetery overlooking the Pacific Ocean


    46. as the function room, sans decaying bodies lying


    47. rich decaying matter, and then learning to


    48. Of to renovate a decaying one


    49. And decaying thing


    50. He painted the outside boards with crude oil to keep them from decaying













































    1. The same statutes of apprenticeship and other corporation laws, indeed, which, when a manufacture is in prosperity, enable the workman to raise his wages a good deal above their natural rate, sometimes oblige him, when it decays, to let them down a good deal below it


    2. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays, though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before


    3. 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up;


    4. 18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through


    5. them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and they repaired the decays of it, and made it strong


    6. change decays and one becomes frozen in his theory, achieving an icy state that is too often


    7. 62 Afterward Jonathan and Simon and those who were with him got them away to Bethbasi which is in the wilderness and they repaired the decays of it and made it strong


    8. By cutting into the stomach cavity they were preventing the build up of gasses as the body decays and preventing the bodies from becoming too buoyant and floating along on the current or even floating to the surface


    9. Consequently, people will lose business, and such carcass also decays very quickly whilst being stored


    10. This bleeding has a negative effect on the quality of the meat as it makes it lose its ability to be stored, and consequently it decays in a short time

    11. soft, prevents weeds, and gradual y decays like compost to enrich the soil


    12. Life grows; but death stands still and decays


    13. David’s theory regarding the fourth dimension and his supposition that in that dimension time is inert includes the idea that gravity, which continuously brings matter together, within the universe, is a product of the drag created by time as the universe decays within the fourth dimension


    14. He is such a being who never decays


    15. One feels connected to the land; one grows, withers, rots and decays


    16. “Not the State's inherently, but by enculturation, and our culture is an endless race for the gold that neither decays nor sates, leaving most in a state of hate


    17. ” After bloating ourselves with the gifts of Eartheart, we force her to eat our sins of greed and gluttony by depositing within her womb a poisoned pill of formaldehyde carcasses and arsenic caskets to contaminate and sterilize all that it decays into


    18. carbon14 decays relatively rapidly it only provides “ages” in the range of tens of thousands of years


    19. “When Time measures life by profit gained, we labor until our face decays away


    20. Meat decays in the stomach for a longer time; as well it is the cause for clogging arteries in the penis, responsible for a successful erection

    21. Besides, meat protein is difficult to digest, it decays in the stomach, could give you additional diseases and generally not a clean protein anyway


    22. decays over time for any reason, then the greater society will surely


    23. , if our body decays), we have a building of God a (spiritual) house not made with hands (not of human instrumentality), eternal in the heavens


    24. Here also was more fully recorded the acts that he had done, and the names of many hundreds that he had taken into his service; and how he had placed them in such habitations that could neither by length of days, nor decays of nature, be dissolved


    25. There is a flawed belief that option time premium decays exponentially across all strikes in the final 30 days of an option’s life


    26. Over time, theta decays at the rate that your trade software says it does


    27. This places the mathematical odds strongly in your favor as these “covered writes” will be profitable if the market moves against you, remains stable, or even continues to move slowly in your favor as option volatility decays


    28. The theta of an option, the rate at which it decays, will vary depending not only on market conditions but also on whether an option is in the money, at the money, or out of the money


    29. However the April option, with less time remaining to expiration, decays more rapidly than the June option


    30. A short-term at-the-money option decays more rapidly than a long-term at-the-money option

    31. And I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust


    32. This conversion will likely be for close to no cost if the price moves up slowly as the July option decays faster than the intrinsic value comes into it and the August option sees relatively little decay compared to the price move related to the intrinsic value


    33. And the botanist who finds that the apple falls because the cellular tissue decays and so forth is equally right with the child who stands under the tree and says the apple fell because he wanted to eat it and prayed for it


    34. Also, for the longer sample used here, the reward for extending the duration is highest at short maturities and decays at longer maturities


    35. The residual is an especially large part of the yield of highly rated bonds and decays between 2004 and 2006


    36. As a classic example, the information in value indicators decays slowly while that in short-term momentum or reversal indicators decays fast


    37. One of the ideas of option trading is that opening short positions implies receiving a premium that turns into profit as the time value of options decays


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    Synonyms for "decay"

    decay decomposition decline disintegration radioactive decay crumble dilapidate decompose disintegrate waste adulteration break down putrefaction breakup corrupt ebb decrease failure consumption ruin degeneration decadence die degenerate fade deteriorate fall spoil blight putrefy moulder rot wither

    "decay" definitions

    the process of gradually becoming inferior


    a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current


    the organic phenomenon of rotting


    an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying


    the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation


    lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current


    fall into decay or ruin


    undergo decay or decomposition