Scavengers can jumble and break bones and shells, rot dissolves signature soft tissues, and geologic forces flatten 3D carcasses into papery imprints.
Piles of oyster shells, rotting vegetables, putrid meat and fish, as well as tons of trash dumped from the ships and manure from horse-drawn carriages, produced an odor that in summer was unbearable.
As an added precaution, we turned each egg upside down once a week, the theory being that a traveling yoke doesn't touch the shell, and can't rot.
They do notice when Dutch Elm disease starts to attack some of their beautiful old trees, and they can hardly ignore the empty factories ("rotting shells surrounded by boarded-up restaurants and taverns").
VIOLET, La., Jan . 12 -In the stillness here on Louis Elam Street, where the houses are nothing more than rotting shells collapsing on themselves for block after deserted block, the Robinson family has decided, against all odds, to re-create life all by itself on lot No. 6429.
A14 Life Returns After Hurricane In Violet, La., on the banks of the Mississippi River east of New Orleans in St. Bernard Parish, where the houses are nothing more than rotting shells collapsing on themselves for block after deserted block, the Robinson family has decided, against all odds, to re-create life all by itself on lot No. 6429.
Aerial shots of the Hamptons with their sprawling six-bedroom mansions paint this seaside resort as a gorgeous, forbidding shell inside of which the rot is beginning to accumulate.
He was, far too soon, a teenaged veteran in this open-air human abbatoir, a little expert in what happens to the bodies of young men when they are ripped open by hot metal and left to rot in a shell hole.
Check for any holes or rot on the shell of the durian.
I subscribed to the Vaseline method: coating each egg with a thin film of Vaseline, inhibiting any air loss (which contributes to rotting), through the shell.
rule 30 on a computer -- rule 30 in nature (Conus textile shell) -- rule 30 in art (Grun-Blau-Rot, Gerhard Richter, 1993) (images courtesy, respectively, of Wikipedia, Wikipedia, and Jerry Saltz).
