moldier

Updated: May 27, 2025

Five months on a sailing-ship around the Cape deep-laden, gunwales awash in a beam on Bay-of-Biscay "snorer," hove-to for a week off Cape Agul has, while the clumsy brigantine rolled the masts loose in her, all but dismasted in a typhoon come astray from the China Sea, fed on moldy bread, and even moldier pork, with a fretful child to nurse, and an exacting mother to be pleased!

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East

"I expect Mr. Pogson's conduct will stir up a good many liberal Christians into showing their disapproval of bigotry and injustice. Ah! Here is the dear old square! The statue looks ten degrees moldier than when I left!" In fact everything looked, as Erica expressed it, "moldier!" "Persecution Alley," the lodging house, the very chairs and tables seemed to obtrude their shabbiness upon her.

Edna Lyall - We Two, a novel