But in the commune, whatstale monotony, what weary sameness!
She had seen Lalie living on stale bread for months and growing thinner and weaker.
Naturally enough she received a hiding, and then she gluttonously fell on a crust of stale bread and went to sleep, worn out, with the last mouthful between her teeth.
She roused herself from the torpor into which the sight of the box, full of the stale perfume of her past love, had plunged her, and she drew the three men's attention to the glasses.
For many years after that war, General Graham was the senior officer of the fifth division of the stale militia.
He then added to the meat two cabbages and some stale ham; and this was all we could obtain from him.
Men could not sit and hear all thesestale witticisms unless they drank.
All the stale old devices of explanatory asides are gone, as are the convenient goings-off and comings-on of the dramatis personæ at the sweet will of the composer who wants here a duet and a trio there.
But rolled oats become rancid and stale on the shelf much like wheat flour on the shelf.
Rolled oats become stale and lose their flavor (and nutritional content) and perhaps become rancid very rapidly.
It not only remains free of insect infestation, it doesn't become stale (meaning rancid).
As they crossed the Adour, Marise caught the first whiff of its summer smell, compounded of decaying sea-weed, tar and stale fish.
What's the best thing to do when you go stale and have a slump?
He came away from the last examination, as stale and worthless as an overworked colt.
Where good stale ale is will drinke no water I trust.
Perhaps Shakespeare's jests would seem as stale and flat if we had the anecdotes that passed current among his successors at the playhouse.
That is to say, Dave Darrin, despite his best endeavors, seemed to go stale from the first hour when he knew that he was not to meet Dick Prescott on the gridiron.
In this he spoke the truth, for the stale September days, in the huge half-empty town, had a charm wrapped in them as a coloured gem might be wrapped in a dusty cloth.
Don't ruin standing of roadside market by selling inferior or stale products.
A good food for the goslings is stale bread soaked in milk or water, fed after they are 48 hours old.
A seedy-looking garçon worked his way through the crowd and took our order for beer; and mean, stale beer it was.
The morning air was new wine in stale veins, and it banished fatigue.
And all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy oldstale ones.
A man of highly-strung temperament will become stale much more quickly than a beefy, phlegmatic person, who is commonly immune.
Yet, warn them as much as you may, many men will make extensive changes when they arestale and desperate.
Then the stale golfer should try to encourage himself; he should try a new set of opponents, play with men of longer handicap than himself, who normally would never outdrive him, and so on.
What must the stale golfer do for his salvation and happiness?
Richard felt more intensely at the time than at looking back, when his emotions were stale to him, and he marvelled at the strength they had had; Sophia never knew till the actual hour was past what the depth of her emotion was.
Life was so horribly stale in London without Barty that I became a quite exemplary young man when I woke up from that long nap on the floor of my laboratory in Barge Yard, Bucklersbury; a reformed character: from sheer grief, I really believe!
The savor of the enterprise had gonestale in his mouth; he was by turns worried, restless, melancholy, sulky, uneasy.
Were we really away for a week, or have I been sitting up in the room dozing, before this stale old desk?
How staleit has become, that printed jollity about Christmas!
When I stale a leg a motun [gh]e are a stronge cunnynge clerke, I prey,' etc.
In the first place, Robert Houdin insinuates that when they played in opposition John Henry Anderson's repertoire was stale and uninteresting.
He eats no luncheon and takes no nap, is desperately hungry thrice a day and sleeps all night, going to bed at dark after a solitary stale supper of bread and butter, more especially bread; and he is good and happy.
Why, this stale loaf must have been on board quite a week.
The child received the rather stale rose-buds and mignonette with silent rapture.
She then warmed some tea for her dinner, and boiled an egg to eat with her stale bread and butter.
The way to do a thriving business was to mix the stale goods discriminately with the fresh, and to sell one with the other.
