Dull
Dull verb - To reduce or weaken in strength or feeling.
Worm
Worm verb - To advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits.
Both words in one sentence
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the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it.
Source: The Worm That Walks -
For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it.
Source: The Worm That Walks
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