All, with unanimous action, opened their garments and gave to sight their withered bodies, eaten with worms, putrefied, crumbling to dust, rotten with horrible diseases.
"Seraphita"
Honore de Balzac
And even scraping up the earth at night with a lantern like that case I read of to get at fresh buried females or even putrefied with running gravesores.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
This social, putrefied evil, and the accumulated matter in the South, pestilentially and in various ways influenced the North, poisoning its normal healthy condition.
"Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862"
Adam Gurowski