There's nothing musty or fusty about a passion for old, rare, or out-of-print books, Janette insists. |
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Its main collection is housed in the Hawaiian Hall, an 1889 stone building whose galleries are as fusty as the century they were built in. |
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Apparently some fusty Brits thought this was the most rib-tickling piece of rubbish-talking they'd ever heard. |
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Those vulnerable to infection perhaps need to understand that this is not just fusty old adults trying to stop their fun. |
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Yes, they may be a little fusty and they may smell of beer, but at least that won't give you cancer. |
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Instead of using fusty mime sequences to advance the plot, she opts for natural-looking movement that segues almost invisibly into dance. |
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The room was filled with an unpleasant smell of cold cigarette smoke, of left-overs from lunch and of fusty mouldering stuff. |
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It has gone from an ecstatic confluence of societal change and economic opportunity to a fusty business institution. |
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What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters. |
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I also parted with a large sum of money and came away with a 7 tightly wrapped bags containing a week's supply of something that smells old, fusty and a bit mouldering. |
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In practice as well as in principle, the fusty old idea of comparative advantage still works. |
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As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people. |
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Then I was sprinkled from neck to toe with warm and fusty vegetation. |
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The ancient chairs and the stage area give out a fusty smell. |
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It smelled fusty inside, like a greenhouse that doesn't see much use. |
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She has lifted circulation from 64,000 to around 68,000 in her first year, by bringing in a less fusty design, more features and columns, and even a number of gossip columns. |
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There was a fondness for what was seen as a fusty old English brand. |
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Bastari emerged from its fusty bin-bag wheezing like a 40-a-day man, and a squeeze of its bellows revealed a strange and alarming laryngitic condition. |
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It is about 60 degrees Celsius inside, it smells fusty and we can't lie down. |
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Many grand houses feel slightly fusty, but this has a lived-in atmosphere. |
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Any chance that fusty old uniform can get revamped into something more appropriately Batman-esque for the occasion? |
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The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her. |
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So many Scotch and even Glasgow goods, and above all the old fusty warehousy smell, put me very much in mind of Candleriggs Street. |
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Our fusty senators' amendment comes as no surprise, because, quite simply, they want to hang on to the old-fashioned approach that enables them to bamboozle the opposition parties. |
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Boutiquey knick-knack shops came in alongside fusty dollar stores. |
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Class matters less: the fact that the Tories are gaining popularity led by an Old Etonian is, strangely, a sign of progress. Under Mr Blair, fusty old Britain has become an international exemplar of openness. |
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I suspect there is a hidden strata of young architectural talent which dismisses the RSA as a remote and fusty collection of old buffties. |
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This will undoubtedly help classical music and culture to shed their fusty, dusty, overly intellectual image and evolve into something hot and happening. |
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