mouldered

He leaped into a rotten old punt that's mouldered therefor years and pushed off.

Twin Moons 2010

Since it's behind the line of the Roman wall, I suppose the rubble could have mouldered gently away in front of it for a long time.

Chester in the seventh century: the fortress defences Carla 2009

Would you like a slice of mouldered cake to go with your clotted milk?

The Displays That Time Forgot Jen 2008

His skull is yet standing over the Rikargate, 61 and even its bleak and mouldered jaws command you to be a man.

Redgauntlet 2008

Undoubtedly, atoms of the old, decayed furniture helped to swell its bulk; and, somewhere among it all, mouldered the long-ago-dead

The House on the Borderland 2007

Green Sun — as now it must be called — shone through the interstices, that gapped the mouldered walls of the old house, giving them the appearance of being wrapped in green flames.

The House on the Borderland 2007

Unrecognised and unpitied, it was borne to the grave; and there it has long since mouldered away!

Sketches by Boz 2007

If it had mouldered under me, surely, I should have been waked by the collapse.

The House on the Borderland 2007

It was easier to hope, and pray, and love on, all uncared for, yet with constancy and patience, in the tranquil sanctuary of such remembrances: although it mouldered, rusted, and decayed about her: than in a new scene, let its gaiety be what it would.

Dombey and Son 2007

Mile after mile of stunted trees: some hewn down by the axe, some blown down by the wind, some half fallen and resting on their neighbours, many mere logs half hidden in the swamp, others mouldered away to spongy chips.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007