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The stronger Beere is divided into two parts ( viz.) mild and stale; the first may ease a man of a drought, but the later is like water cast into a Smiths forge, and breeds more heartburning, and as rust eates into Iron, so overstale Beere gnawes auletholes in the entrales, or else my skill failes, and what I have written of it is to be held as a jest.

Stale as breed or drinke is, rassis. Stale as meate is that begynneth to savoure, viel.

Better is...be it new or stale, A harmelesse lie, than a harmefull true tale.

Rosimunda...hathe an vncle a stale batcheler.

In most states, you can be ticketed for failing to clear the intersection, even if you are hemmed in by traffic. One good clue to a stale green light is the pedestrian signal.

Lime would do very little or no good on stale ploughed lands.

a stale affidavit

By this means the [horse's] legs are not made more stale than necessary.

Stale cheque,...a cheque which has remained unpaid for some considerable time.

The bug was found to be caused by stale data in the cache.