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An impossible scheme of reconstruction was trailing its slow, putrescent length along.

I have twice given water saturated with fixed air in a fever of the putrescent kind, and it agreed very well with the patients.

And off what are those two ravens rising, stirring up with their obscene wings a sickly, putrescent odour?

PROSE IDYLLSCHARLES KINGSLEY

Pyrolignous acid possesses, in a very eminent degree, anti-putrescent properties.

Many are very large and ponderous; fleshy and putrescent, decaying soon after maturity.

Ten hours more elapsed and, without change of circumstances, another drop was taken from the now palpably putrescent fluid.

The presence of putrefiable or putrescent matter determines at once the germination of the always-present spore.

They proved to be the lancet which cut the putrescent sore of the rising world.

THE INSECTJULES MICHELET

But from the putrescent mass of flesh, we salvaged a second jewel from Aptor.

The putrescent are composed of decayed, or decaying, vegetable and animal substances.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985