This acid exists abundantly in other fruits, but especially in the tamarind; in the grape it exists along with citric, malic, and an acid called vinic, which resembles tartaric acid in many respects, but differs from it in others, and concerning the nature of which almost nothing is known: these four constitute the agreeable tartness of the juice of that fruit.

This carbolic tartness forcibly recalled to him the same taste he had had on his tongue in the days when dentists worked on his gums.

He answered Brooke, who replied with increased contemptuous tartness.

Her independence becomes at times a kind of humorous tartness, and she finds fault most delightfully.

say I, with a jealous tartness; "you always used to tell us so.

Many who will not stand a direct reproof, and cannot abide to be plainly admonished of their fault, will yet endure to be pleasantly rubbed, and will patiently bear a jocund wipe; though they abominate all language purely bitter or sour, yet they can relish discourse having in it a pleasant tartness.

"Well," say I, presently, with an unintentional tartness in my tone, "why do not you begin?