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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
51. The place had a rundown look to it, the stone laid path cracked and decaying into ash
52. He noticed that there was a square of decaying wood on the stone floor with the handle set in the middle of it
53. my shrivelled and decaying carcass would wash up upon in a
54. Tamar’s hooded agent Lewem stood by the shimmering portal radiating from the slowly decaying diamond beneath
55. delays in the decaying process may be due to the chemical environ-
56. We even saw some zombies ripping flesh off a decaying corpse
57. didn’t know when the decaying process would cause them to
58. decaying process of the bodies had taken place thoroughly
59. Alwyn found a somewhat decaying hall with a nice little stage that the council was renting to anyone who could pay the rent
60. A grand flushing out of the old, decaying and cluttered entrails of commerce
61. The sharp decaying yellow teeth on the coffee bean snap shut around you
62. The exponentially decaying sinusoidal wave of the interferogram pops up on the computer screen
63. The acrid smell of smoke suddenly had something putrid to it, dead flesh decaying in the sun
64. Decaying our hearts with such ease
65. Dead and decaying leaves covered the martyred earth, swirling around in the stiff sea breeze
66. All this old flesh; vacant minds in decaying bodies; the pervasive smell of urine, shit, and vomit; the sad, terminal hopelessness of it all would swamp her unless she held pity at bay
67. would leave a decaying mass of flesh and bones
68. The drilling and inserting took around 8 hours they all expected the sniffer to be rooting around finding cells amongst the decaying 2500 year old teeth for hours
69. Others were so broken and torn or decaying that only their uniform gave any clue as to their identity
70. Here and there buckling towers reeled drunkenly against the morning sky, and broken pillars jutted up among the decaying walls
71. The original site of early Vancouver was a collection of decaying warehouses, old buildings and alcoholics until the late l960s when it became the renowned haunt of hippies
72. still decaying in the jungle
73. Broken door frames, worn out roofs, and decaying thatch told the story of this forgotten dwelling
74. A decaying basurel; only its head and neck and feet distinguishable on the rest of its carcass that had been stripped clean of flesh
75. The stench in the air was a constant and unrelenting mixture of rotting flesh, decaying dog, and death itself
76. It is said that he came across an aging man, a decaying corpse, and a deceased man
77. The smell of charged stone and wood, of decaying flesh and death
78. A cacophony of smells assaulted my senses: the decaying stench of something organic mixed with the sweet smell of honeysuckle and other swamp flowers
79. decaying city metropolis! In addition, this placement that was
80. protectionism to a decaying company with a predilection for bankruptcy
81. Looking again and again at this rustic door, I noticed a small, old wood, decaying sign above it that was completely covered in dust, as I brushed it with my hand; I saw that it had written on it “Judgment
82. Much of the records had been destroyed with the decaying of time, but there was still enough intact that they would be busy for years deciphering and recording their findings
83. The said Fréjus, sitting facing directly Jules, burst out in laughter, showing twin incomplete rows of yellow, decaying teeth in the middle of a greasy, unkempt beard
84. remaining fuel to put itself in a decaying orbit
85. The old, decaying empires fight for continued hegemony and try their best to patch the growing cracks in their imperial façade, but the center cannot hold
86. "Absolutely, and it would come out in court that the perpetrator, the evil swindler behind these foul words had the vicious intent of suckering others into a dull and decaying life of death and deserved everything that had been dished out to them"
87. Pulling into a village of little distinction, we failed to appreciate the full, Rousseau-esque rural charm of the decaying rustic timbered frame houses and manky collection of domesticated animals occupying a perfectly good spot for a hotel
88. While dirty and dusty, the wing seem to be structurally sound, except for the decaying wall plaster
89. He drew back, nervous of her, although for some reason I knew that it wasn’t her decaying face which scared him but the fact that she was a stranger
90. I wanted to hug her again, but contented myself with a chaste kiss to her decaying forehead instead
91. Slumped in a chair beside the bed was the decaying corpse of a man
92. Taylor, a couple of nurses, and his mother and brother, Paul unexpectedly sat up and swung his feet over the edge of the steel cart his decaying corpse had been lying on
93. Michael recognised the decaying remains of what had once been a thriving
94. The chemical smell in the air was gone now, washed away by the torrent, replaced by the musty odor of wet, decaying leaves
95. How long do I have to live, separated from You, in this decaying body?
96. Life finding life in life: a root finds nourishment in the decay of insect and animal, a rabbit finds life in the watercress leaf, an eagle in the flesh of furry prey, man in the stuffed poultry of Thanksgiving Day, maggots in the remains of man and his waste – all fertilizer, all food, all life – not decaying – but transforming for the next
97. ” The visitor, although stunned, instinctively resumed texting her What's happening now? “It's what the rich sound like when they are justifying their glorified gluttony, as the rancid odor of the decaying bodies of the escargot-nothing spit from their tongues
98. ” the garden of stone began blossoming into rotten, decaying flesh