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Updated: May 23, 2025
I dropped down, and found myself in a low flat-roofed cellar, with a floor of black earth, very fusty and damp, but so very vast in extent that even in the day-time, I suppose, I could not have discerned its boundaries; I fancy, indeed, that it extends beneath the whole palace and its environs an enormous stretch of space: with the lantern I could only see a very limited portion of its area.
The proper reflection to make is, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Whether we say Christ or Perfection does not matter, it is what we mean which is either enthralling or dull, fresh or fusty; "there's nothing in a name."
Her blood began to run warm, the fusty milieu in which she just then chanced to be cleared up and began to bestir itself. She took her violin and began to play a Hungarian dance, while an enlivening smile flitted across her face, and her eyes shone with the audacity of an ambitious and temperamental girl.
It was not so much the shabby, fusty rooms, devoid of everything save a couple of mattresses, a rickety wooden table, a chair or two, and a heap of Passover cakes, as the unloveliness of the three women who stood there, awkward and flushing before their important visitor.
The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. Such threadbare coats and trousers, such fusty gowns and shawls, such squashed hats and bonnets, such boots and shoes, such umbrellas and walking-sticks, never were seen in Rag Fair.
What I meant was," and he stammered painfully, "that that it's a matter of indifference to you whether I, personally, am dull or clever." "What reason have you for saying that?" "Hundreds," replied Bob. "That is you see, you are always laughing at my desire to be 'a fusty bookworm, as you call it, and and, well, all that sort of thing."
No! not for all my geraniums!" an expression which is by no means the anti-climax that it seems for in the eyes of a florist, and that florist an enthusiast and a woman, what is this rusty fusty dusty musty bit of earth, called the world, compared to a stand of bright flowers?
In rainy or gusty weather, when the two doors must be closed, no light enters the room save through cracks in the wall and down the chimney. In the damp climate of western Carolina such an interior is fusty, or even wet.
"Pshaw! it's one of your fusty old bachelor notions. See what comes, now, of your living to your time of life without a wife disrespect for the sex, and all that. Really, cousin, your symptoms are getting alarming." "Nay, now, Cousin Florence," said Edward, "you are a girl of moderately good sense, with all your nonsense. "Think just so too! do you hear the creature?" replied Florence.
The streets, some wider, some narrower, all told of sordid struggling. The shops were greasy, fusty, grimy. The groceries exposed in their windows damaged specimens of bankrupt stocks, discolored tinned goods, grey sugars, mouldy dried fruits; at their doors, flitches of fat bacon, cut and dusty.
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