corroding

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Corroding iron pipes, meanwhile, have been linked to two outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease in Flint that added to the public health emergency.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2017

She left me with memories bitter, Corroding, eating my heart As the acid eats into the steel Etching the portrait triumphant.

From Many Voices by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

But all are better than the sigh supprest, Corroding in the cavern of the heart, Making the countenance a masque of rest, And turning human nature to an art.

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Corroding fear began to assail the girl; soul-longing and heart-sickness seized upon her; her happy smile faded; and her bright, bubbling conversation ceased.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

When Providence, for secret ends, Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; We must conclude it best it should be so, And not desponding or impatient grow.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis