How To Use Worm-eaten In A Sentence
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Fourteen-centimetre shells sit on the sea floor nearby, in what is left of the worm-eaten wooden boxes that once held them.
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The old stone walls are, however, left visible at both ends, while the warped, worm-eaten roof trusses are on full view.
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The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
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What wild beast, or what leering, shaggy soul; or what soul, crushed, like a rotten, worm-eaten mushroom, or heart resembling a begnawed dry bone?
A White Heart
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The nut looked as if it were filled with tobacco or black rich earth; it was what we call hollow, or worm-eaten.
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales
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Imposing at 75 inches on a side and 7 inches deep, the painting, like eight others shown here, has holes drilled in its edges, like worm-eaten driftwood.
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This amygdaloid with analami and mesotype contains crystals, which the water gradually dissolves, leaving the rock with a worm-eaten appearance.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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It is probable she had had several new garments since she related to Helen the history of the worm-eaten traveler, but they were all of the same gray color, relieved by the black silk neckerchief and white tamboured muslin cap -- and under the cap there was the same opaque fold of white paper, carefully placed on the top of the head.
Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
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They fish a worm-eaten corpse out of the river while swimming.
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Once on a time there was a lad who was walking along a road cracking nuts, so he found one that was worm-eaten, and just at that very moment he met the Deil.
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There seemed to be an old, dark tree in front of them, so old that it was thoroughly worm-eaten and had lost most of its branches.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Then you got the fun of walking over a narrow worm-eaten wooden bridge with the water lapping a few inches below.
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I garizonae into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!
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One day, pulling out some worm-eaten panelling in a cupboard in the dormitory, he had found a place of concealment.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Now, on the whole, this sort of vivid reference to rotting flesh and the worm-eaten body is not a very good argument for seduction.
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Also the dry tree and the white lily: the dry tree betokeneth thy brother Lionel, which is dry without virtue, and therefore many men ought to call him the rotten tree, and the worm-eaten tree, for he is a murderer and doth contrary to the order of knighthood.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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“And you, ye thowless jade, to sit still and see my substance disponed upon to an idle, drunken, reprobate, worm-eaten serving-man, just because he kittles the lugs
The Bride of Lammermoor
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All the previous repairs to the gilding were removed, and following consolidation of the worm-eaten panel, the losses were filled with gesso and regilded using traditional materials.
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Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaohs soldiers in the reechy painting; sometime like god Bels priests in the old church-window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his cod-piece seems as massy as his club?
Act III. Scene III. Much Ado about Nothing
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All the previous repairs to the gilding were removed, and following consolidation of the worm-eaten panel, the losses were filled with gesso and regilded using traditional materials.
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The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
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The chairs were of different forms and shapes, some had been carved, some gilded, some covered with damasked leather, some with embroidered work, but all were damaged and worm-eaten.
The Fortunes of Nigel