The army, which previously to the termination of the war had dissolved by the hundreds, was now unpaid and in a stale of revolt.

An old story, too stale for repetition here.

But, knowing that the supply would be both short and stale in winter, they held out prospects of a Canadian Tatler or Spectator, without, however, being rash enough to promise a supply of Addisons and Steeles.

My private goings on are orderly as the movements of the spheres, and stale as their music to angels' ears.

Percy, Scott, and Carlyle, by so doing, have infused new sap from the old life-tree of their race into our modern English literature, which had grown effete and stale from having had its veins injected with too much cold, thin, watery Gallic fluid.

I'd go stale on life, I think.

Then by the time we get home for Christmas it'll be all stale to you.

Do but say his horse stales with a good presence, and he's your bondslave.

There are truths which, as they are always necessary, do not grow stale by repetition "Death, the last and most dreadful of all evils, is so far from being one, that it is the infallible cure for all others.