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Rich papers hung and rotted from the walls; rats scampered about the floors overhead; a smell of damp and mouldiness pervaded every room.

From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

For this reason the vapours become heavy and resemble mist, and they smell of mouldiness, like a vault or some underground chamber which has been completely closed for many years.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

But the ancestors in painted wax, shut up behind us, became gradually covered with mouldiness.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave

Everything is worn, dim, vaguely grey; there is a pungent scent of mouldiness; the paint has long ago peeled away from the naked wood of the pillars.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

You cannot help turning over twenty leaves at once, for they are all amalgamated in must and mouldiness.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde