I was interrupted by a low knock at my door, followed by the entrance of our old Goody, with a bundle of musty papers in her hand, tied round with a soiled red ribbon.
I hope you didn't promise her to bury me alive in thismusty little chamber, at all events," said the girl, with an irreverent glance around her.
A close, musty scent of dust and disuse breathed in their faces.
Grateful to me for hiding you away in these little musty rooms, as if you hadn't the sweetest face the sun ever shone on!
And as his head seemed to spin off his shoulders, and the rest of his body to go crashing downward, he was vaguely conscious of hissing sounds, and the dank, mustysmell of something crawling and loathsome!
Yes, a sort of hissing sound, that dank, musty smell, and then .
The musty smell poured out on them like the damp from an opened vault.
He appealed, as it were, to the mustytraditions of a still mustier past.
A fellow appreciates town after poring over musty volumes, as I unfortunately am compelled to do.
Next, I inspect the sail lockers, and if there be any musty smell, I have the sails, &c.
He made their way, through musty corridors and up slippery staircases, as long as possible, shrewdly eyeing the visitor and rubbing his thumb nervously against his fingers all the while.
The hold was damp and musty as an old cellar, so steeped in the smells and leakage of innumerable dirty cargoes that it could not be made or kept clean.
As the luncheon drew to its close I remember how Richard and I used to fret and fume while my father in a most leisurely manner used to finish off his mug of musty ale.
Fresh from or rather musty from these antiques, who should I meet but the cheerful Dixey and Powers.
He was met by a brassy racket and a curiously musty heavy air.
It was screened against the day, dim and musty and damp.
These are onlymusty records of a past the influence of which has already exhausted itself.
Like moles, they continue rooting and digging away among their musty creeds, dogmas, and catechisms, seemingly unconscious that the sun of science is now shining with dazzling brilliancy in the moral heavens.
Why unurn the ashes of the half-forgotten dead and pore o'er the mustypages of the past for names to glorify?
And then everything spoils; meat put into a cupboard is musty in a night.
We wandered about till long after midnight, long after the village had sung itself to sleep, even then reluctant to take to ourmusty beds.
There is a musty odor about it, which could easily be removed.
Some smaller busts of the principal Greek fathers adorned the side-shelves, and a dingy portrait of the "judicious" Hooker abode in a musty frame over the heavy stone mantelpiece.
Whether I be a scholar or not, I'll warrant no honest gospeller wrote on those yellow musty leaves, which be two hundred years old, if they be a day.
Now I know well to make Captain Holmes or any other Captain keepe his Distance, but Sam'l, thinking all one as himself, in a sadd musty humour, and yet would not come forth with what ailed him.
This day awakes Sam'l in a musty humour as much over-served with meat and Drink, and in great discontent calling me, do bid me rise and fetch his Pills that olde Mother Wigsworth did give him at Brampton.
They were sometimes cut off from the rest of the habitation, and at first were supposed to contain abandoned musty storage.
Some one answered the laugh, and he heard the murmurous touching of soft skirts entering the corridor as he dived down the ancient dark of one of the musty passages.
All sorts of old mouldy monuments, in musty places, just choking with dry rot.
Been looking at musty old oak things this little girl tells me.
I had not contrived to catch a rat, so I had to content myself with a musty biscuit and a dozen olives for dinner, washed down by a copious draught of water.
I remembered how I had fed myself on the musty flour in the old mill.
I ate it at once and thought it deliciously sweet, though it was in reality musty and mouldy.
Wheat, as well as all kinds of corn, is also very liable to be injured by being stacked before it is quite dry; in which case it will heat, and become musty in the ricks.
Carefully select the truffles, reject those that have a musty smell, and wash them well with a brush, in cold water only, until perfectly clean.
Smithfield-market will soon be numbered with the things that "have been;" the defenders of dirt must give way, and the foul and musty corners of the City be purified.
It was "Thaddeus of Warsaw," a musty little translation which she had found in the house, and begun for her own amusement.
You seem to keep your piety shut up all the week in your bare, white churches, and only let it out on Sundays, just a trifle musty with disuse.
At last two enormous chests, full ofmusty writings, were delivered at the Magistracy of the Avvogaria.
We argued a little on this point, I maintaining my position, he treating it with ridicule, and twitting me with holding the opinions of a musty Spanish romance.
It was pronounced a musty and barbarous prejudice to keep women at home, for the supervision of their sons and daughters, their hirelings, their domestic service and economy.
