water-rotted

Down the steps, into a basement and a subbasement which looked completely innocuous, down to the water-rotted piles of cardboard file boxes, spilling multicolored folders and age-yellowed paper on the untreated concrete floor.

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The wood of the door was water-rotted, the leather hinge loose and ungainly.

A Shadow in Summer 2006

A jagged, water-rotted beam half covered with clay and sand lay across him, and beyond that was a mass of splintered wood and wet earth.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

The smell of the steaming mud, the decaying vegetation, and the nameless evils hidden deeper in this water-rotted land was an added torment.

Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958

The smell of me steaming mud, the decaying vegetation, and the nameless evils hidden deeper in this water-rotted land was an added torment.

Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938

Floods had damaged the water-rotted timbers of the two old hulls in which the explorers voyaged north.

Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

If Captain Cook's crew had sold one-third of a water-rotted cargo of otter furs in China for ten thousand dollars, why, these Boston men asked themselves, could not ships fitted expressly for the fur trade capture a fortune in trade on that unoccupied strip of coast between

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

From the village to the easternmost point was over quaking moss ankle-deep, or through long, rank grass, waist-high and water-rotted with sea-fog.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

“Reckless slovenliness, discontent, privation, and ignorance were left to work out their inevitable results, until the entire premises reached the level of tenanthouse dilapidation, containing, but sheltering not, the miserable hordes that crowded beneath smouldering, water-rotted roofs, or burrowed among the rats of clammy cellars.

I. Battling Against Heavy Odds 1902

We water-rotted our flax, broke it by hand, scutched it, picked the seed out of the cotton with our fingers; our mothers and sisters carded, spun, and wove it into cloth, and they cut and made our garments and bed-clothes, etc.

Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887