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Definition of Mustiest
1. musty [adj] - See also: musty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mustiest
Literary usage of Mustiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices by Robert Southey (1807)
"... mustiest stall j Where'er I turn'd, the giant-spiders fled, And trembling
moths retreated as I read ; Through Greece and Rome, I then observant stray'd, ..."
2. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"... wise adage: Was the spectator of each honest scar, Each sophist carried from
each wordy war; Undaunted was my heart, nor could appal The mustiest volume ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... ancient and medieval world, and for the recognition of the principle that
scientific theories mustiest on the result of observations and experiments. ..."
4. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"The most famous picture galleries of Europe are hung with " celebrated rubbish ";
the immemorial Mosque of St. Sophia is the " mustiest barn in heathendom " ..."
5. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... and concordat«s, engrossed on yellowest parchment, sealed with reddest
sealing-wax, and reposing in a thousand pigeon-holes in mustiest archives, ..."
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