"Yes, but it were a good while afterwards I was on boad [sic] a whaler, and I saw something floating that looked like a great lump of chalk, and when we picked it up, who should it turn out to be but Safety Jack, what they call putrified, and turned to something like white coral." ❋ Unknown (1847)
A one-word review of "putrified" would be sufficient. ❋ Platyjoe (2006)
The frightened miller was "putrified," as Mrs. Malaprop would say, at the sight, and a push from the white spectre brought the unfortunate man to the ground, when away rode the gallant quartermaster with his sacks of flour, which, at length bursting, made a ludicrous spectacle of man and horse. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
The Bush's started out OK with Prescott Bush but heirs have ideas that have have putrified like a good steak standing on a table uneaten for hours. sadieg45 ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yukiko meant to make sure that he putrified and boiled with maggots, like a dog. ❋ Nick Lake (2010)
The larvae are aquatic, often called “rat-tailed maggots,” and live in putrified liquids, like rain water in animal carcasses. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The liberal weinies spew nothing but putrified, immature, uninformed, hot air. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As a cheeky, 22-year-old college student who has supported Obama from the beginning, I find myself intrigued by these racial tidbits like a catfish mouthing a chunk of putrified chicken liver. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I seen putrified corpses wit more git up an go than thisun. ❋ Unknown (2009)
November 22nd, 2009 12:26 pm ET such putrified responses from those that think Darwin knew it all – same people that believe da vinci no doubt ❋ Unknown (2009)
Demonization happens in politics all the time, but put that in a religious context and you have putrified stench! ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)
Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If it be within the [1075] body, and not putrified, it causeth black jaundice; if putrified, a quartan ague; if it break out to the skin, leprosy; if to parts, several maladies, as scurvy, &c. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Just the law of averages would require that here and there I would have found one with a pocket of putrified masses of old pills or whatever, but I never did. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Or maybe “rats leaving the sinking, rotten, putrified yacht”? ❋ Unknown (2006)
