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mouldy
1. There is a local saying “If you can see Carn Brea it’s going to rain, if you can’t, it already is” a nd, if you stand still for long enough, you wil be guaranteed to turn mouldy
2. Where there should have been books there were now supermarket items - but they were old and mouldy
3. They looked forlorn in the late evening light with the mouldy forage caps hung on the crosses and I wondered how long they had been there and if anyone else had noticed them
4. They lay about dejectedly on mouldy leaves, looking frightened and confused
5. They had a wall at their back, and some mouldy pieces of what looked like furniture to settle on
6. 5 And old shoes and clouted on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy
7. 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came out to go to you; but now, note, it is dry, and it is mouldy,
8. His mouldy brown hair curled towards his chin and many strands of his hair appeared to be tied up
9. It was a minor accomplishment, but to me, sitting there with my hands and feet tied and a mouldy smelling pillowcase over my head, it felt like a lot more than that
10. Money is not to be left to gather dust in a mouldy bank vault but to be enjoyed, spread around, used
11. The bunk, a comfort to her only moments before, in truth was little more than a crate topped by a sack of straw and a mouldy, old blanket
12. They were made of mud, bits of branches and sticks, covered in mouldy leaves and other
13. When I blew on the steaming drink, an awful smell of mouldy oranges and damp leaves hit me
14. Mohammad Amin put up a signboard to advertise his commodity, on it he wrote: ‘For sale, decayed and mouldy rice, being sold for a tenth of the price of the best quality rice
15. Yes, she was right, nearly always right, in everything she said, and it was certainly meritorious to use one's strength, and health, and talents as she was doing, trying to get rid of mouldy prejudices
16. His face was filthy and his hair was matted and streaked with some mouldy green substance
17. 'If the cork has gone mouldy, the waiter will smell it
18. On the nearest table lay a pile of mouldy
19. cabin, salted meat, broken sleep, mouldy bread, wet clothes,
20. " They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughable sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him
21. Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones, Once living men--once resolute courage, aspiration, strength,
22. Hunger made viands once repugnant, now acceptable; he held the plate in his hand for an hour at a time, and gazed thoughtfully at the morsel of bad meat, of tainted fish, of black and mouldy bread
23. Leaving the door ajar, amid the stench of mouldy limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces
24. Cauls mouldy tripes windpipes faked and minced up
25. The first time I saw him he appeared to me like an old lieutenant who had grown mouldy under his epaulets
26. At their feet its red speck died: and mouldy air closed round them
27. Ah! Ow! Don't be talking! I was blue mouldy for the want of that pint
28. But he found that the mouldy old habitation somewhat depressed his bride
29. A grim idea came into my brain and passed all over my body, as a horrible sensation, such as one feels when one goes into a damp and mouldy cellar
30. Mouldy cannon-balls, old sword-blades, and shapeless projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his horse' feet stood
31. In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain
32. There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on the wall, and there were no walks nor turf; but there was enough grass everywhere
33. Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them
34. The enveloping paper was of a greenish hue, and appeared to be mouldy
35. The balloon like a vast mouldy green cheese stood fixed to the sky
36. The first house we entered, after a little difficulty with the window, was a small semi-detached villa, and I found nothing eatable left in the place but some mouldy cheese
37. And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel—that these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber
38. So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood
39. When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without—oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!—when I think of all this; only half-suspected, not so keenly known to me before—and how for forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare—fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil!—when the poorest landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily hand, and broken the world's fresh bread to my mouldy crusts—away, whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife I wedded past fifty, and sailed for Cape Horn the next day, leaving but one dent in my marriage pillow—wife? wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey—more a demon than a man!—aye, aye! what a forty years' fool—fool—old fool, has old Ahab been! Why this strife of the chase? why weary, and palsy the arm at the oar, and the iron, and the lance? how the richer or better is Ahab now? Behold
40. For all that, I would yet ring glasses with ye, would ye but hand the cup! Oh, oh! oh, oh! thou grinning whale, but there'll be plenty of gulping soon! Why fly ye not, O Ahab! For me, off shoes and jacket to it; let Stubb die in his drawers! A most mouldy and over salted death, though;—cherries! cherries! cherries! Oh, Flask, for one red cherry ere we die!"
41. In this density there is always moisture—always a smell of confined, perpetual shade, of cobwebs, fallen apples (turning black where they roll on the mouldy sod), raspberries, and earwigs of the kind which impel one to reach hastily for more fruit when one has inadvertently swallowed a member of that insect tribe with the last berry
42. The grey, mouldy, cold fog grew thicker and thicker around us
