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Its most famous patron, Ernest Hemingway, sits in statue form alone at the bar in the musty, sweltering darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

From musty star maps to ratty psychics, the movie so adores Los Angeles that Thomas Lennon’s hair stylist character is a riff on local billboard king Chaz Dean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

New research now shows that the distinctive musty scent of mummified remains holds valuable clues about how these elaborate burial rituals were carried out.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

“The Library of Lost Maps” begins in this way, with a suitably romantic discovery that evokes the musty, analog nature of the map room’s treasures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The air was musty with far-off bonfires, sharp with the edge of a twilight chill.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Led by Susan Angelo, Jan Wikstrom and Ellen Geer, this ensemble, under the direction of Willow Geer, diverts and distracts from the mustier aspects of Coward’s style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

The language is honed and specific, effortless yet charged with feeling, where Thomson-DeVeaux’s version can feel mustier and blurry.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020

That will resonate for most, though, as a description better suited to status updates and Gchat windows than to that other, mustier form of writing: carefully composed prose.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2015

The inexpensive pulp paper plus the ink and glue in the binding gave the giant tomes a much mustier, paper-y odor than a standard paperback novel.

From Time ● Apr. 27, 2015

And I was out of the musty room and into the even mustier lobby.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Even the mustiest old chocolate Santa Claus wasn’t safe from him.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

You cannot know “all about the war and what they fought each other for” without delving very deep indeed into the mustiest by-ways of municipal history.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

To estimate the accuracy of its technical details the critic must be a secret service specialist, the mustiest of bookworms and a highly-trained expert in the science and language of the American advertising business.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various

Accept, then, this book, which to those who care only for history will seem but an idle romance, while to the lovers of romance it may look strangely like the mustiest history.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

Was he not the idol of a select group who admired not only one another but also the satanism of Baudelaire, the hieratic obscenities of Beardsley, the mustiest Persian sage, the modernest American ballad-monger?

From South Wind by Norman Douglas