Alas, the taverns reputation declined over the years and by 1775 Garrick was referring to the frowsty bowers of the Dog and Duck as peopled with half-drunk fauns and dryads breaking lamps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bedlam] Reference

Placed on Diana's left at table, he gave her much voluble information about her neighbors, mostly ill-natured; he spoke familiarly of "that clever chap Marsham," as of a politician who owed his election for the division entirely to the good offices of Mr. Fred Birch's firm, and described Lady Lucy as "an old dear," though very "frowsty" in her ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference

It all looked, like its master, to have been there a long time without getting frowsty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

She took out the thimble and looked at it again in the dim, swaying interior of the frowsty carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference

Roger & Gallet Signature Mini Guest Soaps -- tip: store the soap in linens closets, sock drawers, etc... and freshen up the frowsty air!.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

Roger & Gallet Signature Mini Guest Soaps -- (tip: store the soap in linens closets, sock drawers, etc ... and freshen up the frowsty air!).    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

There was bedding at the back, rolled up; and at the front of the room a frowsty old woman in a chair picked half-heartedly at some needlework.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett] Reference

Only then did they ease out of the shop, where already Jarmin had frowsty girls crowding around the counter demanding shrilly to see the new goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take A Thief]

And the house itself was quite different from the dark, frowsty, fish-smelling but of Arsheesh and from the pillared and carpeted halls in the palaces of Tashbaan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horse and His Boy]

So Mrs Beaver and the children came bundling out of the cave, all blinking in the daylight, and with earth all over them, and looking very frowsty and unbrushed and uncombed and with the sleep in their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]

This is a street party that has rendered the street invisible, blocking off the frowsty buildings, replacing traffic with communal tables set with vases of spring flowers, even lowering the no doubt sullen sky with a breezy foliage of flags and bunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The big picture: a coronation street party in Islington, London, 1937] Reference

Explore it from the bottom of the bill and you'll encounter something different: tracts of featureless industrial estates, a world in which Wolseley police cars clatter under railway bridges in Croydon and mid-price actors occupy frowsty suburban drags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

The frowsty little bedroom, low-ceilinged, the floor piled with layers of rugs, the bed with layers of dingy whitish covers, fringed or lacy and now inhabited by sleeping cats, he saw as it would be when transformed, when occupied by himself and Susannah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]

He went up to the frowsty study-bedroom, and sat down at his table.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson] Reference

The ancients could make life one long frowsty comfort if they chose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

She woke up looking clean and fresh, not frowsty and sweaty like us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rising of the Moon]

The panasonic laptop cf now is that the hosepipe infeasibility frowsty to strength intricate the bagman fiesta and the charmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

He had been driven to this somewhat frowsty practice by the fact that he could not possibly sit in any room that had ever been called a den.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson] Reference

And inside the château funny old-fashioned things -- old beds with frowsty canopies, and old wall-papers with large designs in ferns and cornucopias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front] Reference

I love the hushed atmosphere in a hotel breakfast room, as we all sit, half-awake and frowsty, sensing that we have trespassed on each other's dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

If it is after sunset and the ship is "darkened" the scuttles will all have their deadlights down, and the place will be very, what we may call "frowsty.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference

McCoy's final story, a parable about Thatcherism set in a frowsty tract of west London, written by Ken Loach's screenwriter Rona Munro, wouldn't require much revision to serve as a script for Tennant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

I ran after you when I saw your hat go past the window, for I couldn't stand those frowsty old papers of Mark's any longer. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference

“frowsty-minded” and “half asleep” in the early twenty-first century, still in urgent danger of a relapse into the confused nightmare living of the Age of Frustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

The frowsty Fräulein had won.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel: Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet] Reference

What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth.    From Wordnik.com.  [I wasn't really planning to vote, and I wasn't prepared.] Reference

In draughty dug-out frowsty with the fumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Working Party] Reference

‘Those frowsty images — why, yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

In certain moods she could wring his heart by such imagined speeches, the very quality of her voice was in them, a softness that his ear had loved, and not only could she distress him, but when Benham was in this heartache mood, when once she had set him going, then his little mother also would rise against him, touchingly indignant, with her blue eyes bright with tears; and his frowsty father would back towards him and sit down complaining that he was neglected, and even little Mrs. Skelmersdale would reappear, bravely tearful on her chair looking after him as he slunk away from her through Kensington Gardens; indeed every personal link he had ever had to life could in certain moods pull him back through the door of self-reproach Amanda opened and set him aching and accusing himself of harshness and self-concentration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference