...In the forest numbers of trees lie about in the last stages of decay, and working away with might and main on the prostrate trunks may be seen numberless insects of various species... 
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Many of these heaps are recent,while others have fallen into decay...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...He passed several towns in a state of decay...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...They have selected a kind of maize that bends itsfruit-stalk round into a hook, and hedges some eighteen feet high aremade by inserting poles, which sprout like Robinson Crusoe's hedge, andnever decay...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...“He has but one complaint, my dear sir, which all the remedies in the world are not very likely to remove: it is the natural decay of nature, arising from old age...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Soon after the process of decay began in this white man'sestate, the education of a certain black man began, and began on alogical, sensible basis...
Booker T. Washington 「The Future of the American Negro」
...The answer to this query is that, unless the conditionswere such as to preserve at least thehard parts of any creature from immediate decay,there was small probability of its becomingfossilized...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...
Dental Caries, such as affects our own teeth whenthey decay and have to be stopped, occasionally, thoughluckily not often, distresses dogs...
Mrs. Leslie Williams 「A Manual of Toy Dogs」
...When the teeth, either by decay or from excessive wear, have been reducedto mere stumps, their vitality often is lost...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
..., that an enactment was made, whereby the king became entitled tohalf the rents of the land where any farm-houses were allowed to fallto decay...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...Its early decay and loss of woolconstitute an objection to it, in a country where it is often sodifficult to advantageously turn off sheep, particularly ewes...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...; and here, too, all these creatures die and decay,when this slime, the prolific source of generations which we might lookupon as spontaneous, begins to dry up and disintegrate...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
...In whatever way the animal perishes, whether by violence, or excessive cold, or decay, his death is a comparatively easy one...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...They are also troublesome in some parts of Florida, where they piercethe skins of the oranges, and cause the fruit to decay...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
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