mouldy
noun
a torpedo.
mouldiness
-
a word derived from
mouldy.
Example Sentences
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Soaring aloft, the Kite brings back a field-mouse, most filthy, and stinking from long-contracted mouldiness.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
I sat at a table and ate something slimy, salt with a flavour of dampness and mouldiness.
From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The Episcopal church in Marblehead is one of its old landmarks, concurring fully, so far as outward appearance goes, in the prevailing mouldiness.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
The cheek-bones were consumed by mouldiness, the eyes no longer possessed any lustre; but a flame shone above them in the eyeholes of the empty skull.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
