The place smells rank to heaven of dried fish and cod-liver oil, the combined stench of which articles, with that of Decaying refuse lying everywhere, was truly overpowering.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The scientists, like the system itself, were in the last wild frenzy of a Decaying social order.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
He is still a Wit till he has to take orders for a college living as the old Wits' circle is Decaying.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen