It already seems doomed to a musty grave in academic history - for all its moderation and practicality.
She gives him an egg, telling him to return when it smells musty.
Since typical historians of science today are often quite different, their position now has a musty, anachronistic air.
The scent was strong, somewhat sweet to sickly or musty, and unpleasant to humans.
In the dying twilight, the inside of the musty warehouse, largely unused since 1941, has a pale blue cast, making the people, timbers and pillars appear as half-ghosts.
We are accused of uttering musty old shibboleths.
There is the musty smell of mediaevalism in such a principle and it must be removed.
People will go into civic restaurants, and will be provided with a musty old sandwich that has done duty for hundreds of drinks.
