mouldy
noun
a torpedo.
mouldiness
-
a word derived from
mouldy.
Example Sentences
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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
The carnivorous-minded "strong man," the adult male and cannibal, can see nothing but mouldiness and morbidness in the saint's gentleness and self-severity, and regards him with pure loathing.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
There was a mouldiness an’ a soppiness about it that beat the katticombs all to sticks.
From My Doggie and I by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
No change in their conditions enabled him to produce one species, much less a genus, of mouldiness in preference to another, by any change in the infusions employed by him.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
