She stood in the unaired, dark ante-room with its fusty smell, and knocked with a faltering hand at the studio door.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Inside the house the air was close and stale, odorous of dry pine walls and of unaired rooms.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
The unaired odors of old foods.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst