" "A knight?" suggested her friend, who had just indulged a literary taste by purchasing a paper covered edition of Sir Walter Scott.

There is something repugnant to a refined taste in the idea of eating flesh whose constituent particles partake largely of the nature of our own.

This knowledge which had come to him so suddenly had a bitter taste.

Of course when a girl like John gets a little taste of social contact and recognition, she may go to considerable lengths to gratify her desire for it.

" As she stood there, such a pretty and wholesome picture, David Darrin thought he never before had seen such a pretty girl, nor one dressed in such exquisite taste.

that was it, and it was a long ways-better taste than the frocks Miss Sessions and Mrs. Hexter were wearing.

The desire to cut a figure in society, and to carry the "fad" of the moment to extremes, ever possessed Seguin; and thus he had for a while renounced his pretended artistic tastes for certain new forms of sportthe motor-car craze, and so forth.

Plain and intelligible, but | | without offense to the most fastidious taste, the style of | | this book must commend it to careful perusal.

When cultivated, it is reddish, thick, fleshy, with a pleasant odour, and a peculiar, sweet, mucilaginous taste.

Why it should have been reviewed at all, excepting for the purpose of bringing its excellences into notice, I cannot conceive; for it was very little read, and there was no danger that it should become a model to the age of that false taste with which I confess that it is replenished.

like," he added, basely truckling to the Prince's peculiar taste.

Then Madeleine, whose chestnut tresses were tinged with gleaming gold, and who was slimmer than her sister, and of a more dreamy style of beauty, her character and disposition refined by her musical tastes, made a love match which was quite a romance.

"To be in the daily converse and view of the most beautiful women in America, as I have been for years, is a privilege in the cultivation of a pure taste.

Sand and water ought to be used to scour it with, for brickdust and oil may give a disagreeable taste to the meat.

This is produced from a shrub more bushy than the pomegranate tree, and of a more pleasant smell, but having a kind of a bitterish taste.

This chalk stains the meat, and communicates to it an unpleasant earthy taste.

Her intellectual tastes were encouraged and directed, to a large extent, by a somewhat notable Bristol man, of the name of Peach.

Then he had an impression of being lifted into his bed by Jean, and of having his head and shoulders raised by the same arms some time later, so that he might drink a draught of some concoction with a pleasant aromatic taste and odour, in a glass held to his lips by Eve de Montalais.

In one spot he found some small, creeping, myrtle plants covered with ripe white berries, and although they had a very pungent taste he ate his fill of them, he was so very hungry.

The inner scales, as well as the leaves, are coated with resinous matter, which has a strong odor and a nauseous taste.

The bulk of the nation is yet Anglo-Saxon in its blind poetic tastes.

The strength of his oratory was intrinsic; it presented the rich and abundant resource of a clear discernment and a correct taste.

In this state its root is whitish, slender, and hard, with an acrid, disagreeable taste, and a strong aromatic smell, and was formerly used as an aperient.

Or if you are of delicate taste, you fall upon your fingers.

The notes too which accompany the translation of these parts generally exhibit just criticism and extensive learning, an elegant taste, and a genius naturally philosophic.