Perhaps it's the musty old cellars, some dating back to the 1680s.
Petit joined the Paris Opera Ballet at the age of 16, but found the company "musty" and left in 1944.
As a Test team has won only once before after following on, the musty shelves of 'Wisden' have to be dug into deeply to find an exact parallel to Botham's innings.
On this day, after a downpour, it smells musty.
According to the information-security oversight office of the National Archives, the government declassified 7.2m pages in 1989, 12.3m in 1990 and in 1995 the most recent year for which figures are available no fewer than 69m, mostly because of Mr Clinton's decision to release at a swoop 44m pages of musty documents, many on the second world war.
Another Catholic priest, Brother Hugo Andrey takes a polished silver trumpet from a well-kept but musty black case, and plays the mournful notes of the last post.
The air is musty and mote-filled, rippling only when trains pass through the defunct platforms.Brompton Road station closed in 1934 though it was used as the headquarters of an anti-aircraft division during the Blitz, and, according to a senior officer in the RAF squadron that now occupies part of the building, the renegade Nazi Rudolf Hess was interrogated there.
In the event, the rhetoric sounded musty as ever, and the announced changes looked puny.
Vodun is the name scholars give to the African religious cult originating on the Slave Coast, which was exported under the name voodoo to the plantations of Haiti, Cuba, Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas, and is still practised today.In this glass-and-steel exhibition space there is nothing of a musty museum of ethnological curiosities.
In early 1975 he wrote a caustic letter to the communist leader Gustav Husak, saying that the "calm" which the authorities regarded as their great achievement was in fact a "musty inertia…like the morgue or a grave".
If it all smells a bit musty or seems a bit ghostly, well, that is what happens when you set up an office for occupancy in the mid-1990s and by late 2011 nobody has shown up for work.
