"Then I can be arrested?" "You can," Luke Tweezy declared with evident relish.

She was not only poor, but she had also become blind, and had lost all relish for fashionable society,not a religious recluse, saddened and penitent, like the Duchesse de Longueville in the vale of Chevreuse, but still a cheerful woman, fond of music, of animated talk, and of the political news of the day, Châteaubriand was old, disenchanted, disappointed, melancholy, and full of infirmities.

"Very well, sir," replied Mr. Rushton, who seemed to relish these pleasantries of Mr. Roundjacket"very well, sir, turn into a bear as much as you choose; but, for heaven sake, don't become a poetical bear.

Or that he might taste the charms of liberty with a greater relish?

They told of their defeats and flights with as much relish and humor as of their charges and victories.

A keen relish for dramatic expression revealed itself as part of my nature.

Curiously enough, however, he retained his relish for novels, and for books on history, biography, and travels.

She answered note for note, relish for relish, And ran division with such art and ease That she exceeded me.

She answered note for note, relish for relish, And ran division with such art and ease That she exceeded me.

Ergo, a glass mirror is a metallic mirror; ergo, the terms of the distinction are confused; ergo, the classification is imperfecthow do you explain that, meddler?" He emphasized the ergos and the familiar "you's" with indescribable relish, at the same time winking, as though to say, "You're done for.

What will become of the Philippines on the day when we understand one another?" Sandoval did not relish the dialectic and jesting turn of the conversation; along that path could rise no speech worth the while.

He rapidly made his selection, for that night he was to be off in time to reach the vessel before she sailed, and he felt even glad to avoid the Thanksgiving festivities for which he had so little relish.

Her mortification was increased later in the day when, we having invited him on her insistence to dine at our table, he declined (civilly enough), saying he had brought his repast with him, and we presently found him seated astride one of his planks with a pocket knife in one hand and a thumb-piece of bread and bacon in the other, which he seemed to be eating with all the relish in the world.

I find the house wondrous neat and clean in every part, but so comfortless and prison-like, that I look forward with little relish to living here when the time comes for me to leave the Court.

THE BARN-OWL Praise the hour and taste and relish Of the eggs we suck, destroying Hopes of many a haughty line!

"serpens, sitis, ardor, arenae, Dulcia virtuti," as Cato told his soldiers marching in the deserts of Libya, "Thirst, heat, sands, serpents, were pleasant to a valiant man;" honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth: they will make the rest of thy life relish the better.

We relish it at least as much at the tenth repetition as at the first.

"Curiosity," I said, "is the accidental relish of a single night; whereas the essential and abiding pleasure of the theatre lies in foreknowledge.

Life is sweet, but it would not be sweet enough without the occasional relish of peril and the luxury of daring deeds.

"Cap'n's orders," repeated Mr. Smith, with relish.

"Puppy!" said the invalid, with great relish.

Curll's "Key to the Dunciad," quoted with evident relish by Pope in the Variorum notes, recorded on the authority of contemporary scandal that the "two babes of love" were the offspring of a poet and a bookseller.

Thereupon Jemmy leaves Oxford and comes up to London, where he and Jenny indulge innocently, but with keen relish, in the pleasures of the town.

Remember that even a very limited amount of bacon or hard bread, or both, consumed with the emergency ration makes it far more palatable, and generally extends the period during which it can be consumed with relish.

She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it with much relish.