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Definition of Mouldering
1. moulder [v] - See also: moulder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouldering
Literary usage of Mouldering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig (1841)
"THE decomposition of wood, woody fibre, and all vegetable bodies when subjected
to the action of water, and excluded from the air, is termed mouldering. ..."
2. Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair (1847)
"The process of mouldering is, therefore one of putrefaction and decay, proceeding
simultaneously, in which the oxygen of the air and the component parts of ..."
3. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"... Rake up some thread-bare tales, that mouldering l»r la chimney corners, wont
by Christmas fires To read and rock to sleep our ancient sires ? ..."
4. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: From the Best Writers by Lindley Murray (1836)
"6 " 'Twas thus by the glare of false science be.tray'd, But when shall spring
visit the mouldering urn I That leads, to bewilder, and dazzles, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... you will find them among mouldering pamphlets in the library of some H inter
i cal Society. Perhaps they linger yet in the breath of men'« ..."
6. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1876)
"Gradually as the bond which held the fragments of the empire together was loosened,
and as limb after limb dropped away from the mouldering colossus, ..."
7. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig (1841)
"THE decomposition of wood, woody fibre, and all vegetable bodies when subjected
to the action of water, and excluded from the air, is termed mouldering. ..."
8. Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair (1847)
"The process of mouldering is, therefore one of putrefaction and decay, proceeding
simultaneously, in which the oxygen of the air and the component parts of ..."
9. Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott (1827)
"... Rake up some thread-bare tales, that mouldering l»r la chimney corners, wont
by Christmas fires To read and rock to sleep our ancient sires ? ..."
10. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: From the Best Writers by Lindley Murray (1836)
"6 " 'Twas thus by the glare of false science be.tray'd, But when shall spring
visit the mouldering urn I That leads, to bewilder, and dazzles, ..."
11. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... you will find them among mouldering pamphlets in the library of some H inter
i cal Society. Perhaps they linger yet in the breath of men'« ..."
12. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1876)
"Gradually as the bond which held the fragments of the empire together was loosened,
and as limb after limb dropped away from the mouldering colossus, ..."
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