1.   As Nanjing starved, the crops outside the city walls lay rotting because no one was allowed to go out to harvest them.

2.   Not the man who lies rotting in a schoolroom beneath a chalkboard map of Africa.

3.   The ferry lay rotting in the shallows off the north side of Staten Island, with the tall A-frame apparatus that held the piston jutting above the water.

4.   Their sugar cane and corn crops lay rotting.

5.   But now the ripening fruit lies rotting in the mud.

6.   But, now the ripening fruit lies rotting in the mud.

7.   Corpses lay rotting in the desert sun, as doctors struggled to treat the wounded.

8.   More corpses lay rotting in the desert sun.

9.   Now, though, a large limb lies rotting on the ground nearby.

10.   The bodies of hundreds of dead Ethiopian soldiers lay rotting along the now quiet site of a ferocious battle between Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers.