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corrosion
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  • You've got a corroded control disk.†   (source)
  • I flashed a smile to keep the honesty of the statement from corroding the remainder of my heart.†   (source)
  • It looks to me like it's corroded," I said.†   (source)
  • To some small degree he did succeed in further corroding Ayemenem's view of working wives.†   (source)
  • It didn't seem to have been damaged by the fire or corroded by the bone-tar.†   (source)
  • The air stank of corrosion and burning.†   (source)
  • There were the proofs: an emerald earring and a medal of the Virgin, the chain corroded by salt.†   (source)
  • And was it really true that she carried a little golden nugget inside her—a jewel that cannot be corroded by time, a soul that would live on when her own body grew old and died?†   (source)
  • …his face away angrily, and then immediately apologized, and placed his cheek against hers, and she tried to relax against him, cheek to bearded cheek, but she was surprised, because what she thought she had glimpsed in him in that moment was bitterness, and she had never seen bitterness in him before, not in all these months, not for one second, even when his mother had died, then he had been mournful, yes, depressed, but not bitter, not as though something was corroding his insides.†   (source)
  • Sophia told them about some of the antics that went on at the sorority house—including the fact that the plumbing had to be replaced because too many girls were bulimic, which corroded the pipes—and Luke told a few stories about some of the more colorful events on tour, one of which included a friend—who went nameless—and a woman he picked up at the bar who turned out to be …. not quite what he imagined.†   (source)
  • That was before it corroded to orange.†   (source)
  • With a word, he had dispelled the scrim of corrosion.†   (source)
  • Corrosion.†   (source)
  • The valves were made of titanium because they had to function reliably after prolonged exposure to high temperature, and also because titanium was very corrosion-resistant—high-temperature water was murderously corrosive.†   (source)
  • The decorative grille under the eaves had oxidized to a bile green, old corrosion ran down the brick like mascara, parallel to the drainpipes.†   (source)
  • The title was embossed in a corroded gold foil.†   (source)
  • If real, why is it that I can recall in all that island of greenness no fountain but one that was broken, corroded and dry?†   (source)
  • He checked the release, laying down his gun and gripping the pockmarked steel oval, tugging at the pin to make certain it was free of corrosion.†   (source)
  • But fear, as I have said, was working strange changes in all of us, corroding our ability for clear thought.†   (source)
  • The crowded lavatory was sweltering, Joe was streaming sweat, and the yellow air burned in his nostrils, corroded his lungs with each inhalation, stung his eyes.†   (source)
  • The air was even mustier than before–humid and corroded, with a peculiar acrid bite that seemed to cling to the back of my throat.†   (source)
  • But the wind died down, and she watched with a sigh as the bird beat its wings in awkward, frantic movements to land on the corroded top of a fire escape on the opposite building.†   (source)
  • If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.†   (source)
  • At length, Cooper stopped at the base of a corroded iron ladder that rose fifteen feet to the street above.†   (source)
  • The balance of the identifiable food items included fragments of caribou bones, caribou hair, a few bird feathers and, surprisingly, a brass button much corroded by the action of digestive juices but still bearing a recognizable anchor-and-cable motif such as is used in various merchant navy services.†   (source)
  • The ammunition corroded and the foxholes filled with mud and water during the nights, and in the mornings there was always the next village, and the war was always the same.†   (source)
  • There were an antique cannon, two lantern frames, several belt buckles, a few corns, and some corroded utensils displayed nearby, salvaged from a centuries-old vessel that still lay on the bottom not very far from the station, according to the plaque.†   (source)
  • But because the society had corroded Mrs. Brown's image of the black man, I did not feel sufficiently compelled to allow Mrs. Brown to infect my students with her malady.†   (source)
  • Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty?†   (source)
  • Oh there are conflicts between the others too, each one human, needing, demanding, hurting, taking—but only between Emily and Susan, no, Emily toward Susan that corroding resentment.†   (source)
  • There was kindliness in that power, but it was corroded by the habit of tyranny.†   (source)
  • A suddenness found its way onto his lips then, which were a corroded brown color and peeling, like old paint.   (source)
    corroded = deteriorated
  • Papa's eyes started corroding.   (source)
    corroding = deteriorating
  • Mostly corroded and leaking an acid goo but some of them looked okay.†   (source)
  • Next to that was a dented bronze breastplate pitted with corrosion —acid, maybe?†   (source)
  • The metal was corroded and the railings bent under pressure.†   (source)
  • Nearby lay a corroded bronze dagger very much like her own.†   (source)
  • They started up the steps, which were gold streaked with the black of ash and corrosion.†   (source)
  • The corroded sword was still in my hand.†   (source)
  • The edge was corroding, the black gunk from Loki's bindings chewing away at the magical blade.†   (source)
  • But it corroded Alec's peace of mind just the same.†   (source)
  • Their shields looked like giant corroded pennies.†   (source)
  • Its title was embossed in corroded foil of some kind: The Stories of History.†   (source)
  • His golden skin began to corrode, breaking into chunks.†   (source)
  • Each of the cells was secured with thick iron bars that appeared badly corroded with age.†   (source)
  • The walls around the city, now crumbled; the gates, corroded with the scars of acid rain.†   (source)
  • Instead of a corroded piece of junk, I held an actual weapon.†   (source)
  • Along one wall was a lit glass case full of Randolph's rusty Viking helmets and corroded ax blades.†   (source)
  • I have a corroded piece of metal and I'm not afraid to use it."†   (source)
  • The camera zoomed in on me threatening him with my corroded piece of metal.†   (source)
  • He stared at Chooka's blunt face; the thick nose, flat eyes, and corroded mouth.†   (source)
  • And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino's was the only horse-drawn carriage; it was distinguishable from the handful left in the city because the patent-leather roof was always kept polished, and it had fittings of bronze that would not be corroded by salt, and wheels and poles painted red with gilt trimming like gala nights at the Vienna Opera.†   (source)
  • For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary pleasures of puberty, where flowers rusted and salt corroded, where nothing had happened for four centuries except a slow aging among withered laurels and putrefying swamps.†   (source)
  • He'd gotten them into this, and now they were going die—or worse, they'd be amusements for Boreas's children and end up frozen forever in this throne room, slowly corroding from freezer burn.†   (source)
  • He'd worked so hard to repair the corroded lines, but something had caused a flash freeze inside the dragon's skull, where it should've been too hot for ice to form.†   (source)
  • Staring at Valentine from behind the rock, Jace felt as he always did now when he thought of his father—a persistent familial affection corroded through with bleakness, disappointment, and mistrust.†   (source)
  • The real Clarisse demanded, holding the other girl in her arms while the campers struggled to remove the poison-corroded helmet.†   (source)
  • Judging from their corroded shields and the smoking plumes on their helmets, they'd already learned about the basilisks' poison and fire.†   (source)
  • Worse, whatever the nature of the moisture that reached the tape, it had caused some patchy corrosion to the recording surface.†   (source)
  • …learned from others-that your work is yours to choose, and the choice is as wide as your mind, that nothing more is possible to you and nothing less is human-that to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay-that your work is the process of…†   (source)
  • All around the circumference of the walls, in closet-size niches, stood mummified men in rotted clothing, their leathery fingers clasped around the hilts of corroded swords.†   (source)
  • "I know," Ciel whispered, and she pulled her coat tightly around her and looked slowly up and down the street at the wilting crepe paper hanging from broken stoop railings and the loosened balloons climbing up the building fronts past rotting windowsills and corroded fire escapes.†   (source)
  • Regular bronze would have corroded and become unusable long ago, but these were Celestial bronze—the handiwork of a demigod.†   (source)
  • Then the ground began to shake and the roots in front of Eragon began to twist and grind, shedding flakes of bark as they pulled aside to reveal a bare patch of dirt, out of which emerged what appeared to be a lump of corroded iron roughly two feet long and a foot and a half wide.†   (source)
  • There were clearly no demons hiding in the shadows: Nothing blocked their view of the corroded walls, and nothing but the statue remained standing in the room.†   (source)
  • The thing was about the right size for a blade, but it was so pitted and corroded, so encrusted with barnacles and glistening with mud and slime, I couldn't even be sure it was metal.†   (source)
  • Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks—shattering, corroding, death.†   (source)
  • The old corrosion has lost its bite—envy, intrigue and bitterness have been washed out.†   (source)
  • However, as I say, my aunt died; and whenever I change a ten-shilling note a little of that rust and corrosion is rubbed off, fear and bitterness go.†   (source)
  • Advances in culture, no less than advances in science and industry, corrode the very society under whose aegis they are made possible.†   (source)
  • The old grandfather had shown him arrow-heads and corroded medals, and a sword hilt, evidently Spanish, that he had found in the earth near the water-head.†   (source)
  • A man's got to carry something besides a corroded liver with him out of that dark backwood and abysm of time, and it might as well be the little black books.†   (source)
  • Or a murdered reality, unborn, killed by that corroding emotion without name—fear—need—dependence—hatred?†   (source)
  • None marked him there, but drifted by with too buoyaat and too aimless a gait for his own misery, drifted by with bloated corroded faces, as if heaved in the swell of a weedy glare, as if lolling undersea.†   (source)
  • LARRY—(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an iron constitution that even Harry's booze can't corrode.†   (source)
  • They are made of gold instead of serpents, gold the metal that does not corrode) symbolizing immortality; i. e., immortality is the mysterious creative energy of God, which is the beauty of the body.†   (source)
  • He went past a window of old shoes corroded by wear—past the door of a mission with a cross above it—past the peeling poster of a political candidate who ran two years ago—past a grocery store with barrels of rotting greens on the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • I lay there and watched the undersides of the oak leaves, dry and grayish and dusty-green, and some of them I saw had rusty-corroded-looking spots on them.†   (source)
  • Zilla's face was wrinkled like the Medusa, her voice was a dagger of corroded brass.†   (source)
  • In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end, until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.†   (source)
  • She alternately considered ways of leaving Kennicott, and remembered his virtues, pitied his bewilderment in face of the subtle corroding sicknesses which he could not dose nor cut out.†   (source)
  • 'There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.†   (source)
  • His face brightened a little when he saw that Wickham Place was W. It was sad to see him corroded with suspicion, and yet not daring to be impolite, in case these well-dressed people were honest after all.†   (source)
  • Forgetfulness in people might wound, their ingratitude corrode, but this voice, pouring endlessly, year in year out, would take whatever it might be; this vow; this van; this life; this procession, would wrap them all about and carry them on, as in the rough stream of a glacier the ice holds a splinter of bone, a blue petal, some oak trees, and rolls them on.†   (source)
  • She no longer meant to destroy them: that intention had been effaced by the quick corrosion of Mrs. Peniston's words.†   (source)
  • Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.†   (source)
  • Ah, he would take her beyond—beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of the soul—— Gerty's little sitting-room sparkled with welcome when Selden entered it.†   (source)
  • Just horrible, corroding suspicion.†   (source)
  • Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.†   (source)
  • Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.†   (source)
  • Native ferocity held one in subjection, while the corroding passion of revenge prevented the other from admitting any gentler feeling at the moment.†   (source)
  • While his heart is heavy with corroding care, suspense, distrust, and doubt, it may have room for some sorrowful wonder when he recalls how different his first visit there, how different he, how different all the colours of his mind.†   (source)
  • It so chanced that almost upon first cutting into him with the spade, the entire length of a corroded harpoon was found imbedded in his flesh, on the lower part of the bunch before described.†   (source)
  • Captain Nemo showed me a tin box, stamped with the coat of arms of France and all corroded by salt water.†   (source)
  • Many of them were very old, and as time keepers valueless; the works having suffered, more or less, from corrosion—but all were richly jewelled and in cases of great worth.†   (source)
  • Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.†   (source)
  • Keen as was her interest in the rugged relics of the Roman past that lay scattered about her and in which the corrosion of centuries had still left so much of individual life, her thoughts, after resting a while on these things, had wandered, by a concatenation of stages it might require some subtlety to trace, to regions and objects charged with a more active appeal.†   (source)
  • Last January, rid of all mistresses — in a harsh, bitter frame of mind, the result of a useless, roving, lonely life — corroded with disappointment, sourly disposed against all men, and especially against all womankind (for I began to regard the notion of an intellectual, faithful, loving woman as a mere dream), recalled by business, I came back to England.†   (source)
  • "Give way!" cried Ahab to the oarsmen, and the boats darted forward to the attack; but maddened by yesterday's fresh irons that corroded in him, Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven.†   (source)
  • So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.†   (source)
  • Deaths cloud poured round him, heart-corroding.†   (source)
  • In eager pleasure, Sleep said: "Swear by Styx' corroding water!†   (source)
  • …privileged feelers may be intimate where they are, The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves, The limpid liquid within the young man, The vex'd corrosion so pensive and so painful, The torment, the irritable tide that will not be at rest, The like of the same I feel, the like of the same in others, The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that flushes and flushes, The…†   (source)
  • For it is plain, that every word we speak is, in some degree, a diminution of our lunge by corrosion, and, consequently, contributes to the shortening of our lives.†   (source)
  • "Very likely," says the doctor: "I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily accounted for; because the acidity occasioned by the febrile matter may stimulate the nerves of the diaphragm, and thereby occasion a craving which will not be easily distinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor assimilated into chyle, and so will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific symptoms.†   (source)
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