Not being so well baked as our biscuits, it becomes hard and mouldy from the moisture left in the dough. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The purchaser of cotton-seed cake should be certain that it is not old and mouldy, which is frequently the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
It certainly is something that hasn't been love at first taste for me, but with time I've grown to appreciate it's "mouldy" old nose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
The Hebrew word here rendered "mouldy" (nikuddim) is rendered "cracknels" in 1. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
I myself don't believe Eunice wus "mouldy;" but that is Dorlesky's way of talkin ', -- very flowery. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician] Reference
'Oh, Hulworth is a mouldy old barrack,' replied Toffy. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Tho 'a crust of mouldy bread would keep him from starving. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
She pointed to a new mound of mouldy clothes on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
A chill fell on his soul as he strode over the mouldy floor. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
And it was trampy with mouldy discoloration and travel-stains. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Cyrène was brought up in a mouldy old château near St. Ouen. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
I eat a mouldy mushroom and it blooms a stormcloud on my belly. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple and the Fortress] Reference
The feeding of spoiled or mouldy feeds to horses is highly injurious. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Mucoreus: mouldy: a surface covered with small, fringe-like processes. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Here and there a word stood out in a mouldy grey against a black background. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Sudden changes in the feed and the feeding of rotten, mouldy feeds may cause it. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Then Dot would take the shoes, wouldn't she, and save them from becoming mouldy!. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"I have picked mouldy crusts off the ground, and prunes off dust-heaps," he says. From Wordnik.com. [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference
I fancied we all looked quite mouldy, when we emerged from our dusky dark caverns. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
This is not so much objected to; but when, in addition, it is mouldy, the men grumble. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When we got it, it had been wet and was so mouldy that we had to chop it out with an ax. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
All were wrapped securely in canvas, mouldy and rotted away with the damp of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Where wantonness laughs and thrives in gilded cages, and starves and dies in mouldy cellars. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Slowly she got out of the mouldy cab and began automatically to unfasten the strap of her watch. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
If the water on being tasted gives a mouldy or salty taste, the soil is believed to be unsuitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
After mouldy Halifax, and war-worn Louisburgh, the little town of Sydney is a pleasant rural picture. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Quaint, old, mouldy Halifax seems more attractive after re-writing this portion of its early history. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Fancy a collection of odds and ends of scenery, extinct lanterns, and mouldy, crumbling stage properties. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The leaf of a pear tree, that she had allowed to become mouldy, was under the lens, and she told me to look. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Spoiled roots, grains and silage, mouldy, dirty roughage and decomposed slops should not be fed to live stock. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The first is, I think, uncertain in its effects, and has, perhaps, a tendency to make the insects go ultimately mouldy. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
"And this is Halifax?" said I, as that quaint, mouldy old town poked its wooden gables through the fog of the second morning. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
It was big and mouldy, and dark with cobwebs swinging like dusty curtains over the windows that had not been washed for years. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Their meals consisted of a mess of black porridge of bitter mouldy flour "that no English pig would notice" and a dish of spinach. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The corset like skeleton of the rotted lace lamp shade is mouldy rusted with the blood of insects who batter themselves in its jaws. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems] Reference
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