- the behaviour of presenting him to her grandmother, talking now to her and now to him, while all the time he saw nothing but a bare garret, a heap of musty straw, a sunbeam, and a withered apple.

If it was old, musty straw, I wouldn't care for it.

Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw?

Mine enemy's dog," she said, "though he had bit me, should have stood that night against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father, to hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, in short and musty straw?

And it did prosper mightily there on that short and musty straw.

With a sigh of frustration, Jastom sat down hard on the musty straw, resting his chin in his hands.

The smell of musty straw filled her head, and everything around her lurched into motion.

I see a tub, and a heap of musty straw, and a withered apple, and a ray of sunlight coming through a hole in the middle of the roof and shining on your head, and making all the place look a curious dusky brown.

Stiffly he stretched himself on the musty straw heaped in one corner.

Polly lay in the dark, on a bed of musty straw.