blue-mouldy

I've been so rowled about in me burth and banged agin 'the bulkheads that my bones fell loike jelly and I'm blue-mouldy all over.

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

"A man that can walk about, faith, loike an opera dancer, with a blue-mouldy leg loike that, can't have much faling at all, at all, I'm thinkin '!"

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

` To see you coming in here, 'says he, ` with your face as solemn as a tombstone and sitting down there with your hands clasped over your stomach, and passing me out a blue-mouldy old item of news like that!

Anne's House of Dreams 1915

Look here: chuck away your silly week-end novel, and talk to a chap. After a week in that filthy office my brain is simply blue-mouldy.

Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903

'with your face as solemn as a tombstone and sitting down there with your hands clasped over your stomach, and passing me out a blue-mouldy old item of news like that!

Anne's House of Dreams 1908

'who (his driver said) might be a prize pig by his impidence,' and a donkey that was feelin 'blue-mouldy for want of a batin', tried to poke their noses into the group.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

"And then I went into Griffin's to hae my boots hobbed, and then I went to Riggs's batty-cake shop, and asked 'em for a penneth of the cheapest and nicest stales, that were all but blue-mouldy, but not quite.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

"Presently, it begins to get so could, that for want of clothing I was nearly blue-mouldy with the frost in the nights, until I could stand it no longer; but none ov the chaps had any duds to spare, an 'I was clane out of me head what for to do.

On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874