Mouldy

Examples

• We went to the Golden Cross at Charing Cross, then a mouldy sort of establishment in a close neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The mouldy ones a-top. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The atmosphere of the place was heavy and mouldy, being rendered additionally oppressive by the closing of the door which led into the church. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The bread was blue and mouldy; the cheese lay a heap of dust. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you, he said to the wrinkled reveller. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Even in the shallow Marshalsea, the ever young Archer shot off a few featherless arrows now and then from a mouldy bow, and winged a Collegian or two. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Get out, you mouldy old villain, get out! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For instance eggs were beautifully preserved, and steak immersed in the solution did not become either mouldy or decomposed, but on the contrary appeared to retain its flavor. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It was a dim, mouldy, melancholy old room, with a low, raftered ceiling. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Bernice