stale-smelling love

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  • The old man shut Fancy inside the backseat of the hot, stale-smelling truck, where there were no handles to get out; a mesh partition kept her from crawling into the front seat.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • “Actually,” she said, leaning against the cold, stale-smelling library wall.

    (7) Plus and Minus Nathaniel Bellows 2011

  • The old man shut Fancy inside the backseat of the hot, stale-smelling truck, where there were no handles to get out; a mesh partition kept her from crawling into the front seat.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The old man shut Fancy inside the backseat of the hot, stale-smelling truck, where there were no handles to get out; a mesh partition kept her from crawling into the front seat.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • A block away, in another building called Samuel Kelsey Apartments, Andersen leads the group to the fifth floor, down a sweltering, stale-smelling hallway, to Elsie Nelson's apartment.

    Music where they live: Singer Mary McBride's unconventional tour J. Freedom duLac 2011

  • The old man shut Fancy inside the backseat of the hot, stale-smelling truck, where there were no handles to get out; a mesh partition kept her from crawling into the front seat.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Beyond the door was a dim, stale-smelling hallway with three doors.

    Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

  • She took a long hot shower and threw herself onto a lumpy, stale-smelling bed.

    Lipstick in Afghanistan Roberta Gately 2010

  • She had fallen headfirst into the story as Allegra talked and she typed, the office, the computer fading out—her former dining room transforming into a stale-smelling bedroom in a seventeenth-century coaching inn.

    The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010

  • As a stale-smelling white fog filled the church, a blizzard of debris—brick, stone, wire, glass—pelted the neighborhood.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

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