| 1. | In short and musty straw Alack, alac. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | You are the musty chaff, and you are smel. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Your bank-notes had a musty odour, as if they were fast decomposing into rags again. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 6. | You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Oh, I know--a joint venture It struck me as such a romantic phrase to come across in the middle of musty old figures. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | The earth smelled musty and close, but we did not somehow seem to mind, for our attention was concentrated on the Professor. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |