DECAY

Related Subjects: Age, Antiquity, Corruption, Death, Disease, Mortality, Ruin, Rust, Weakness

1. A gilded halo hovering round decay.—BYRON, The Giaour
   

2. A general flavor of mild decay,
   But nothing local, as one might say.—O. W. HOLMES, The Deacon's Masterpiece
   

3. While in the progress of their long decay,
   Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.—FREDERICK HOWARD, On the Ruins of Paestum
   

4. Change and decay in all around I see.—HYMN: Abide With Me
   

5. An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
   And glides in modest innocence away.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Vanity of Human Wishes
   

6. There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas.—LOCKE, Human Understanding
   

7. Sullen presage of your own decay.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
   

8. Ever upon old Decay
   The greenest mosses cling.—WHITTIER, A Dream of Summer