Quotes About Mustiness

An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62

And still you wonder why your heart is anxious and your breast constricted, why a pain you cannot account for inhibits your vitality completely! You are surrounded, not by the living world in which God placed mankind, but, amid smoke and mustiness, only by bones of beasts and of the dead.

As it was, the lethal mustiness blended hideously with the town's general fishy odour and persistently focussed one's fancy on death and decay.

a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.