All old bones and rotten rags.

His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags.

"And you don't want those rotten rags anyway," Kelp told him.

Lying at the bottom, entwined in an embrace that had lasted eighty years, were two skeletons dressed in rotten rags.

A single taloned finger, spread wide and catching in his tunic, ripped the garment from him like a rotten rag as the monster plunged by.

I was the core of the universe, as we always are to ourselves; and the universe tore like a client's rotten rags and fell in soft gray dust to nothing.

Mixed up in the hay was all kinds of garbage, such as bottomless shoe-tatters, shoe-patches, old stocking legs, rotten rags of wadmal, pieces of cord, fibers, fragments of horseshoes, horns, bones, gills, fishtails hard as glass, broken wooden bolts and other scraps of wood.

His clothing had decayed into rotten rags.

It shredded the mule as if it were a rotten rag, and wheeled again.