After two or three years of quiet mouldering, Cadnebar's had been reborn as the glad' circus.

Then I thought with renewed force of what the factory inspector had heard in the night in this mouldering and pestilential building.

The waters of the cove were gone, hidden under a mouldering, sulphurous tangle of a slimy alga.

He had often admired the decrepit stone-mullioned house and regretted its steady mouldering into a picturesque and uneconomic slum.

Once the eye had taken it all in, it had time to notice the peeling paint and rotting plaster and the general air of gentle mouldering.

Horst could never forget how the cathedrals of medieval Europe had risen like stone palaces out of the mouldering, stinking wooden slums.

This is within the precincts of the mouldering and venerable Briddhkal Temple, which is one of the oldest in Benares.

The mouldering remains of a meal lay on the broad oak table; a great dower-chest inlaid with ivory, but half filled with arms and armour, stood wide.

They found the royal zoo; a sad mouldering of cages and pits where sick animals paced to and fro or threw themselves at fire-hardened bars, snarling.

As a rule, the rains had beaten down parts of some of the houses, and this gave the village the aspect of a mouldering and hoary ruin.

There had been the mouldering remains of a delicatessen meal in tinfoil trays in the fridge, along with a bottle of beer and two of orange squash.

Although it is now a mouldering and dangerous ruin, it was the first-ever office for issuing freight vouchers for the Stockton and Darlington railway.

Here, placed upon the ground, were a number of boxes made of imperishable ironwood, and on the top of each box sat, or rather lay, a mouldering and broken skull.

BBC's World About Us (20 March) explored in A highly desirable residence the domestic world of a young couple who bought a mouldering, 18th century cottage.

A spark flew and died-living long enough for him to see that they were keeping company with the mouldering remains of a man, of which only bones and his enveloping furs remained.

What the boffins have uncovered is just a gentle mouldering of the soul as we adjust to our reduced circumstances and encroaching mortality, perhaps with the aid of a glass of gin and something ambient on repeat play.

A scent like the roots of an oak in autumn, hard, but contaminated with the spores of fungi in the mouldering of ochre leaves that fell, layer upon layer, where branches of the Company still leached its old power to spread ever wider..

The moldering remains of other provisions were evidence that no one had foraged here for a long time.

About a dozen cups, scattered through the colossal litter, contained the moldering remains of cold tea.

The next time the chamber was needed, the executioners shoved the moldering remains into an open conduit which joined the sewers.

Surrounded by the moldering remains of fallen fences, it stood dark and untenanted at the crest of a hill overlooking the house itself.

Wandering through dungeons holding the moldering remains of dead prisoners, she comes into a large crypt hall - and beholds the Devil's Organ.

They found the royal zoo; a sad moldering of cages and pits where sick animals paced to and fro or threw themselves at fire-hardened bars, snarling.

And they are far from pleased at having the moldering remains of a national disaster plunked down nearby, alongside the canal that flooded their neighborhood when Hurricane Katrina surged through last year.

THE MODERN IS MOLDERING": that's as close as you can get in English to Otto Klemperer's punning swipe at the "modern," which in German overlaps with the verb "to decay."

But Hollywood's attempt to loot the crypt that holds the moldering remains of the 1957-63 television series of the same title, and its 1985-89 reincarnation as "The New Leave It to Beaver," turns out to be another argument for accepting the risks of originality rather than dusting off relics.

What did you want to go mouldering about abroad so long?

If Nature had her way his brain would now be mouldering in the grave.

And why has this cargo been mouldering in a warehouse so long?

That glaring, mouldering gaze was more than she could deal with.

By 1827 however, all the ships were mouldering, and unfit for service.

The scent of mouldering leaf was strong in his nose.

It seems a pity to have them mouldering away for lack of care."

Perhaps his vision of the world lies mouldering in some drawer along with similar attempts by others.

A bloody heap of mouldering stone is what it was,' said Arthur.

Others new and all filled with mouldering food stuffs.

Rather, his disquiet stemmed from the state of these mouldering bones.

There lay shields, mouldering in the rains and sun.

I am dust to you, Joe, no more than mouldering bones.'

I like the idea of sentenced persons doing something useful for their fellow citizens rather than mouldering inside a prison.

But it echoed around her, bouncing off the centuries of mouldering armaments.

Maybe they could recycle some of those power systems currently mouldering in Russian military submarines.

Kane led them down a stone stairway, slippery with mouldering debris.

A smell of warm earth and baby powder, of things mouldering slightly.

And we don't even know whether the furnishings are in good repair or not - they might be mouldering away!"

Fans were purring; it smelt of mouldering heat on city rain.

Its ceiling had not given way, but the chamber was cluttered with mouldering debris of uncertain nature.

They should be in some museum, not mouldering away in this cellar.'

He found the tower quickly enough, one of the jagged, mouldering stone formations, a little way down the slope.

What about the filmed versions of novels that are either mouldering in or wiped from the archives?

How can these mouldering stones bear its weight?"

Did they know whose home was up there moldering in those trees?

He thinks me moldering at the bottom of his hole.

The corpse was far more useful now than it would have been moldering in the ground.

The theater itself sits moldering on the south side of the block.

He supposed everything was still out there, moldering in the silent rooms.

It's my opinion they're all moldering in a common grave, these seven long years.

The answer is not another useless report that will be put on the shelf and left to molder.

He does not strike me as the sort who would be willing to molder underground.

We got pie and you leave me up there moldering in bed?"

Odd things moldered in corners: some of them had once been alive.

The building's facade remains much as it was, but the ballroom is moldering.

They pulled out of the rest stop, past a weigh station moldering toward total ruin.

But within sight of almost every restored building stands a boarded, moldering one.

Not even a body moldering within a polished mahogany casket.

Don't put him away to molder like some animal.

Dead bodies moldered, to be reborn as grass and flowers.

It's horrible to think she was just laying there, moldering."

"I'm sure someone pitched it, or it's moldering in a garage."

"You're going to molder down here forever, old man!"

He made his costumes sequin-perfect, but then let them molder away in storage.

There the books might even now be moldering if I had not had given childbirth another go in 1997.

Many of the Pilot's forebears are moldering in drawers with dead batteries.

Certainly not before you're moldering in the grave.

We want to know why a talent like yours has been moldering on the bench all this time."

Some, near the door, appeared new and bright; most were cracked and moldering.