“Hurrying into the heart of the library, the musty smell of old ink and rotting paper curled around her nostrils.”

“But why bring up a forgotten and musty argument, even if the protagonists were two of the most colorful and brilliant men of the nineteenth century?”

“Other passages lapse into the formal, musty prose of a nineteenth-century French novel.”

“Now he turns his attention to a somewhat mustier subject: the history of cartography.”

“It seems odd to call the scent fresh — it was darker and mustier than that — but fresh is how it felt, hovering like a ground fog above the last banks of snow.”

“Dead white guys are even mustier to this generation.”

“The problem with LAP is that it is in Samrat, ITDC's ugliest face with the mustiest corridors in the history of hotels.”

“But the three billboards filled with recent maritime-related news clippings is the mustiest bit of the exhibit.”