...Fun will grow stale and threadbare; one cannotlive by it... 
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...The fumes of stale tobacco-smoke hovered in the air, and mingled most unpleasantly with those of the lamp above, and of the mildew that penetrated through the walls just below the roof...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...The woman became intolerable to him, and the Penny-farthing Shop, reeking with the odour of stale tobacco and spilled liquor, poisoned him...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...All in return for table scraps andskim milk and less than a weekly dollar's worthof stale bread and cast-off butcher-shop bones...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...On no account should it be allowed to remainabout, and the animal to blow upon it till it either becomes stale ornoisome in the creature's eyes...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...Theill-ventilated room reeked with the effluvia of stale smoke, and the fadedgreen baize of a little round table in the centre was covered withfilbert-shells and empty ale-glasses...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...A yellow cur wouldhave seen the rabbit sitting there, but the hound did not, and thescent seemed stale, so he leaped off the log, and Rag had won...
Ernest Seton-Thompson 「Lobo, Rag and Vixen」
..., by the leakage of the stale, andmanure of the cattle on to them, and the loss of so much valuablestorage as they would occupy, for hay and grain...
Lewis Falley Allen 「Rural Architecture」
...The air wasfetid; stale and dank...
Various 「Astounding Stories, June, 1931」
...He started to open the face-plate of his helmet, longing for a breathof air that did not smell of sweat and stale tobacco smoke, as that inhis suit always did, despite the best chemical purifiers...
John Stewart Williamson 「Salvage in Space」
...Noone likes to bear stale news...
Sewell Peaslee Wright 「Vampires of Space」
... No one had dreamt riding behind abullock team could have been so "flat, stale, and unprofitable," asit was after the first mile or two...
Ethel Sybil Turner 「Seven Little Australians」
...Hassal had only wanted toseparate, not to sell, were driven out through the gate and awayto their old fields and pastures stale...
Ethel Sybil Turner 「Seven Little Australians」
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