What is "musty"

Usage examples of "musty".

Henceforth, I desire to live upon a flat with never a hill in sight, amidst honest folk as stupid as their own sheep, who go to church on Sundays and get drunk, not with hachich, but on brown ale, brought to them by no white-robed sorceress, but by a draggle-tailed wench in a tavern, with her musty bedstraw still sticking in her hair.

The musty smell of overwear rose up from them and our noses wrinkled as we untied his bootlaces.

Just in case of trouble he unsheathed the eighteen-inch steel blade of his panga, then clambered inside the hearse, feeling it rock on the soft springs, aware of a strange, musty smell, like pepper and dog piss, salt and sugar.

The bar reeked of spilt whiskey, old cigarette smoke, and the musty redolence of rotting wood.

The VR illusion of her presence was so good I thought I could smell her musty, exotic scent, a mix of old lady and priest, perhaps through some synesthetic confusion in my muddled head.

The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.

Neither map nor chart graced the unplastered walls, the unpainted furniture of the room was sadly in need of repair, while a musty odor permeated the room.

He went with Haranjus to the roof, not unlike the roof at Baris, surrounded by a low parapet, fouled with shit, littered with feathers, and reeking with the musty, permeating smell of Thraish.

The wilted, damp hay strewn over the floor gave off a musty smell that reminded Calliste of wet horsehair.

Sighing, Stef dropped his robe among the other castoffs on the floor and plowed into a musty closet, looking for something clean.

From among this neat, new, clothbound crowd there towered here and there a musty sepulcher of learning, brown with the color of dust rather than leather, with no trace of gilded letters, however faded, on its crumbling back to tell what lay inside.

Seized by her cornrowed hair so her tiara twisted, Star was held against the musty robes of two acolytes.

Romy was prepared for the barrack, and her tours of the SimGen dorms prepared her for the vague musty odor that attended a crowd of sims.

He ate moldy flatbread, and belted baggy, musty cloth on himself for a second skin to keep off the cold.

The narrow cabin, unused since the first flight to Solitude Hermae, was chill and oddly musty.