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At the end of this thoroughfare our unconscious guide plunged into a still darker and fouler impasse, hung across from side to side with rows of dingy linen, and ornamented in the centre with a mound of decaying cabbage-leaves, potato-parings, oyster-shells, and the like.
Almayer descended the ladder carefully, now thoroughly recalled to the realities of life by the care necessary to prevent a fall on the uneven ground where the stones, decaying planks, and half-sawn beams were piled up in inextricable confusion. As he turned towards the house where he lived "my old house" he called it his ear detected the splash of paddles away in the darkness of the river.
Wolfstein's curiously improper laugh, she frowned. The face in the mirror changed and looked almost old. This struck her unpleasantly. She kept the frown in its place and stared from under it, examining her features closely, fancying herself really an old woman, her whimsical fascination dead in its decaying home, her powers faded if not fled for ever. She might do what she liked then.
Browning has attempted nothing approaching it in magnitude, or in the demand it made upon the sustained exertion of high intellectual powers. But he left his admirers no room to complain of diminished fecundity or of decaying vigor. "Balaustion's Adventure," including a transcript from Euripides, appeared in 1871, to prove his undiminished insight and inexhaustible interest in spiritual analysis.
Yet in that backward glance she could see that her little Eumenides Mammy Judy's children were peering at her from below the wooden floor of the portico, which they were grasping with outstretched arms and bowed shoulders, as if they were black caryatides supporting as indeed their race had done for many a year the pre-doomed and decaying mansion of their master.
She stood in the door, firm and fresh, the colour in her hair, the bloom on her cheeks, and looked at that mass of decaying man upon the bed. "Are you bad?" she asked, anxious as a child. "I suppose I'm not very good," he answered. She snatched her eyes away. "Well, I congratulate you," he said at last, quietly. She sought for irony in his voice and eyes, and detected none. "What on?"
The peculiar stench of decaying human flesh is plainly perceptible to the senses as one ascends the bank of Stony Creek for a half mile along the smouldering ruins of the wreck, and the most skeptical now conceive the worst and realize that hundreds aye, perhaps thousands of bodies lie charred and blackened beneath this great funeral pyre.
Ptomaines, as their name shows, are found in dead bodies. They are found in all dead matter after a time, whether it is decayed food or a decaying corpse. "No general reaction is known by which the ptomaines can be distinguished from the vegetable alkaloids. But we know that animal alkaloids always develop either as a result of decay of food or of the decay of the body itself."
"'Burn 'em up, said Caesar. "'We can't, said the man; 'we would have to burn up the city to destroy them in that way; there are too many of them; and it would be an immense task to bury them. "'Heap 'em all up in one big pile, said Caesar. "'That wouldn't do the smell they would make in decaying would be unbearable, to say nothing of the sickness they would create.
Thus, by degrees, came into being the absurd and fast decaying system of monastic establishments, which, for many centuries burdened Europe with drones innumerable. In England, bachelors are not left to go forgotten to their solitary graves. There was a tax laid on them by the 7th William III., after the twenty-fifth year of their age, which was £12. 10s. for a duke, and 1s. for a commoner.
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