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Although the windows were open, the room had a damp smell, and the rows of books that Osborn never read were touched with mildew. Rain was plentiful in the north-country dale, coal was dear, and Mrs. Osborn was forced to study economy, partly because her husband would not. By and by Osborn turned his glance from the window and fixed it on his son, who stood waiting across the big oak table.
New wood is sometimes diseased by mildew, but die-back is usually due to two different causes: One, the accumulation of water in the soil during the excessive rains of mid-winter; second, the occurrence of low temperatures, including frosts, after the sap has risen.
Damp started on the walls, and as the stains came out, the pictures seemed to go in and secrete themselves. Mildew and mould began to lurk in closets. Fungus trees grew in corners of the cellars. Dust accumulated, nobody knew whence nor how; spiders, moths, and grubs were heard of every day.
"'And there, said they, 'the merry winds go Away from every horn; And those shall clear the mildew dank From the blind old widow's corn: "'Oh, the poor blind widow Though she has been blind so long, She'll be merry enough when the mildew's gone, And the corn stands stiff and strong!
To him eating and sleeping were Energy's warehousemen; idleness was dry-rot, moth, and mildew; laughing, talking, whistling, singing, somersets, and fishing, never-to-be-neglected and in-constant-use safety-valves.
They would let the clothes rot and mildew before they'd let my mother wear them. If my mother left a dish dirty sometimes there would be butter or flour or something in the dish that would need to be soaked they would wait till it was thoroughly soaked and then make her drink the old dirty dish water. They'd whip her if she didn't drink it. "Her other master was named Harrison.
And you admit that every thing has a good and also an evil; as ophthalmia is the evil of the eyes and disease of the whole body; as mildew is of corn, and rot of timber, or rust of copper and iron: in everything, or in almost everything, there is an inherent evil and disease? Yes, he said. And anything which is infected by any of these evils is made evil, and at last wholly dissolves and dies?
Black spots of mildew were upon it and it had an oily, unpleasant odor. "I found it! I found it!" Pee-wee vociferated, as the scouts all clustered about him eager to see. "You're the greatest discoverer next to Christopher Columbus," Roy said. "Let's see what's inside it." "Didn't I say to stop here?" Pee-wee demanded. "You never thought you'd find an ice cream soda here," Roy said.
And our dark driver drew up his little victoria gently. Through the open doorway, into a dim, cavernous, ruined house of New Orleans we passed. The mildew and dirt, the dark denuded dankness of that old hostel, rotting down with damp and time!
It is right to give honor to whom honor is due. We cannot tell how many of the names of the good and great of the earth's true philanthropists were engraven upon tablets of dead stone, who have long since been forgotten and the knowledge of them lost in the past. The blight mildew blackness and creeping moss of time have hidden their names from earth.
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