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Definition of Moldering
1. molder [v] - See also: molder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moldering
Literary usage of Moldering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steps to Oratory: A School Speaker by Frank Townsend Southwick (1900)
"... Crew and Captain lie ; There the sunlit ocean tosses O'er them moldering, And
the lonely sea bird crosses With one waft of the wing. ..."
2. The House of the Dead by Marc Ponomareff (2005)
"... and the playful shouts of his mother and father prodded him on, his child's-feet
were speeding over the moldering leaves of a remembered forest as he ..."
3. With the Trees by Maud Going (1903)
"In a primeval wood the ground is half covered with moldering trunks. This is the
forest of the past. Dead of age or disease, these trees crashed earthward ..."
4. Wheeler's Graded Literary Readers, with Interpretations by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler (1919)
"Learn the meanings of the following words before studying the poem: moldering
wall: a wall covered with patches of mold, gust: a short, sudden rush of the ..."
5. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon (1891)
""'John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave; John Brown's body lies moldering
in the grave; John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave; ..."
6. The Morse Readers; Practical Graded Text by Ella Marie Powers (1902)
"This huge moldering monument had become a shelter for a street boy. Many who
passed by the Elephant of the Bastille would cast at it a contemptuous glance ..."
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