mouldering

As for Pisa at large, although it is not exactly what one would call a mouldering city -- for it has a certain well-aired cleanness and brightness, even in its supreme tranquillity -- it affects the imagination very much in the same way as the Campo

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

She had on a white-cashmere dressing-gown trimmed with swan's-down, and she lay among the luxurious cushions of a blue lounge, with a paler blue blanket, which she had had one of us tricot for her, lying over her feet, and altogether she looked very ideal and ethereal; for Aunt Pen always did have such an eye to picturesque effect that I don't know how she could ever consent to the idea of mouldering away into dust like common clay.

Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

He had heard people defend this nomad life -- why, he himself, before his marriage, had smiled at the old-fashioned stability represented by such families as the Mortons; had talked of 'getting into ruts', of 'mouldering', and so on.

The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880

Although (he writes) “Mine have been anything but studious hours,” he professes to have received great solace from those “repositories of 'mouldering' learning.”

Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866

Although (he writes) "Mine have been anything but studious hours," he professes to have received great solace from those "repositories of 'mouldering' learning."

Charles Lamb Barry Cornwall 1830

I mean, one slice is quietly mouldering away, and the other is just plain stale.

I count coup on Senator Chris Dodd (D-Countrywide). - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010

By the time torture became an article of faith in the Republican Church (around 2004) the country had long been mouldering.

Matthew Yglesias » Torture and Stick-Beating 2010

I kind of hate seeing stacks of them mouldering on doorsteps for weeks on end.

Let’s build a giant fort with them! 2010

We've mainly been mouldering around the house in these short days, dozing and squabbling.

Diary of a separation 2012

One more thing - just seeing that picture at the top of the thread churns my stomach with the smell of stale beer and and nasty mouldering soda reaching it's half-life in the bowels of it, because it hasn't been emptied in some time, and it's 90º outside.

For bottle return mess, a new idea (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009