1. mouldering - Adjective
2. mouldering - Verb
of Moulder
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think. Emily Dickinson
Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame. Their level life is but a mouldering fire, Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire. Oliver Goldsmith
Among the mouldering bones there was the head of a flaxen haired girl. One side of her face was well preserved, almost mummified. She must have been a beauty. But the other side of her face was all bone and a horrifying sight, not the sort of thing one likes to think about after. Christopher Vokes
But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn? Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave? James Beattie
But in this world every thing has its evil ; the dust is on the wheels of the conqueror's chariot-the silken-wrought tapestry covers the mouldering wall. Letitia Elizabeth Landon