musty

This is my little bedroom; rather musty, but Barnard's is musty.

The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as it was on a lower level than the garden.

Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed.

He let me pry about among a quantity of mildewed and musty manuscripts and I came across this.

There did I guard his coffins: full stood the musty vaults of those trophies of victory.

The clothing on the wall smelled musty. But what of that?

During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers.

"Oat-straw is, I have found, the best of all straws to re-stuff myself with when my interior gets musty or out of shape."

The dark square lumbering bedsteads seemed built for restless dreams; the musty hangings seemed to creep in scanty folds together, whispering among themselves, when rustled by the wind, their trembling knowledge of the tempting wares that lurked within the dark and tight-locked closets.

Exactly as I would speak of my nearest personal friends or enemies, or my most familiar neighbors, he spoke of Sir Bedivere, Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Launcelot of the Lake, Sir Galahad, and all the other great names of the Table Round -- and how old, old, unspeakably old and faded and dry and musty and ancient he came to look as he went on!

Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again.

"I musty think your language too strong in speaking of both," replied Jane; "and I hope you will be convinced of it by seeing them happy together.