dank

• From the windows of his senses which had looked till then into he knew not what cesspool, into what enclosure, dank, and steeped in shadow; he now looked suddenly, through a burst of light, on a vista which lost itself in heaven His vision of nature was modified; the surroundings were transformed; the fog of sadness which visited them vanished; the sudden clearness of his soul was repeated in its surroundings He had the sensation of expansion, the almost childlike joy of a sick man who takes his first outing, of the convalescent, who having long crawled in a chamber, sets foot without; all grew young again. —  En Route
• And they came up to him with a breath that was cold and dank, and they seemed to peer into his face, but he could see naught of their bodies. —  King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys ; Girls
• The entrance was some thirty feet above the ground--dank, noisome, and forbidding; the end was near the roots Of course the old chestnut was dying; but that did not concern the noctules. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• No refrigerating plant ever contained a freezing room so dank, cold and gloomy as that theatre! —  A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
• There was a dank, rich smell of wet mould and rotting leaves, and rain-bruised fern. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia

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