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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

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

They did not look quaint or musty but decidedly contemporary, even stylish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

It was musty and slightly astringent, not unlike the communal bin area in his block of flats.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

They would be gentle, formal, everyone gathered in the musty living room: her elderly uncles and granduncles, their wives, some cousins, and perhaps a baby tied on someone’s back.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Members consider it a scruffier, more bohemian version of mustier clubs uptown.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2016

Japanese haunts are also darker, mustier, and tarnished—perhaps more creepy than gory.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 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

Then I followed behind her at a very creaky pace until we were in her parlor, the door of which was even older and mustier than she was.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

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

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

I'm afraid I must own, that I think your opinions are the oldest and mustiest I have met with this long time.'

From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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

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

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