Do we say saver or savor

saver 44 occurrences

He said, "You have a wonderful little life saver herewith a bull dog grip.

The Mayor was quite satisfied with the outcome of the affair, and since he looked on Erick as the saver of his grapes, he now came to the pastor to talk over what could be done for the poor orphan.

CAPTAIN (of 'The Bars' Life-Saving Station) BRADFORD (a Life-Saver) TONY (a Portuguese Life-Saver) MRS PATRICK (who lives in the abandoned Station) ALLIE MAYO (who works for her) SCENE:

CAPTAIN (of 'The Bars' Life-Saving Station) BRADFORD (a Life-Saver) TONY (a Portuguese Life-Saver) MRS PATRICK (who lives in the abandoned Station) ALLIE MAYO (who works for her) SCENE:

Other experiments of Dr. Böcker prove sugar to be a great saver of the phosphates, and hence of bone,which affords, at least, a very plausible reason for the instinctive fondness of children for sweets, during the building portion of their lives.

A programmer concerned with energy consumption and the environment might take time to consider how a particular screen-saver routine impacts the total energy consumption pattern of a particular monitor.

A picture called 'The Daughter of Pharaoh' in which the Princess Royal and her attendant ladies figured as the saver of Moses and her handmaids, was being exhibited in 1782, at a house opposite Brookes', and was to be the companion-piece to Copley's 'Death of Chatham.'

It Is a Great Time Saver, and Forms the Basis for Training and the Acquirement of Skill Once activity starts in any direction, the tendency is to persist until satisfaction is reached.

SAVER, of Philadelphia, an eminent minister of the Religious Society of Friends: "6th mo. 22d, 1791.

J.C.L. CONTENTS PREFACE LIST OF DRAWINGS THE COD-FISHER THE SONG OF THE SEA THE WIND'S SONG THE LIFE-SAVER "THE EVENIN' HYMN" THE MEADOW ROAD THE BULLFROG SERENADE SUNDAY AFTERNOONS

O'RAFFERTY LITTLE BARE FEET A RAINY DAY THE HAND-ORGAN BALL "JIM" IN MOTHER'S ROOM SUNSET-LAND THE SURF ALONG THE SHORE AT EVENTIDE INDEX OF FIRST LINES LIST OF DRAWINGS THE LIFE-SAVER, "He's a hero born and bred, but it hasn't swelled his head.

* THE LIFE-SAVER (Dedicated to the Men in the United States Life-saving Service.)

One minute later an excited life-saver was shut in the box of the public telephone, gritting his teeth at the inanity of the central operator who insisted on giving him "A-1224" instead of "A-1234," the Hotel Wellington.

Something tells me that soul-saver will go bust on Eclipse Creek.

It's a life-saver.

a day, and live for a trifle, are, indeed, a paradise for the mere wage-earner, who can scarcely help becoming also a wage-saver; but America is the country which, with wage conditions such as I have attempted to portray, still offers the best possible opportunities of success, and even of great careers, to clever working men, and especially to clever mechanics.

Vacuum cleaner salesman: "Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time-and-back saver, no well-appointed home should be without one."

The Saver and the saved.

Vacuum cleaner salesman: "Vibrationless, noiseless, and a great time-and-back saver, no well-appointed home should be without one."

The Saver and the saved.

And he does more than assert, than merely wind upon his horn outside the gates of the enchanted city, he is a builder, collector, saver.

(e) It provides for the exchange of deposits for bonds bearing a higher rate of interesta unique feature greatly simplifying for the small saver the process of buying bonds for more lasting investment.

In this chapter they have been looked at mainly from the saver's (the lender's) standpoint, though their service to the borrower is of coördinate importance.

In households where servants are kept, the slate will save many a vexatious blunder and unnecessary call to the kitchen, while if one is herself mistress, cook, and housekeeper, it may prove an invaluable aid and time-saver if thus used.

It is a time-saver.

savor 120 occurrences

He will make due use of spontaneous impulse; but that this may be wise and disciplined, he will form the habit of curiosity about words, their stations, their savor, their aptitudes, their limitations, their outspokenness, their reticences, their affinities and antipathies.

Heathen (heath-dweller), pagan (peasant), and demon (a divinity) had in themselves no iniquitous savor until early Christians formed their opinion of the people inaccessible to them and the spirits incompatible with the unity of the Godhead.

their perfume, and the LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB to retain their old sweet savor, when "Sartor Resartus" has about as many readers as Bulwer's "Artificial Changeling," and nine tenths even of "Don Juan" lie darkening under the same deep dust that covers the rarely troubled pages of the "Secchia Rapita.

Charles Lamb was blessed with an intellectual palate as fine as Keats's, and could enjoy the savor of a book (or of that dainty, "in the whole mundus edibilis the most delicate," Roast Pig, for that matter) without pragmatically asking, as the king did of the apple in the dumpling, "how the devil it got there."

"Young hopes, and love's delightful dreams," savor neither of Burns nor Quarles; they seem more like shreds of many a modern sentimental sonnet.

"Does it not savor of thoughtlessness to bestow so much where he can know so little?"

Taste N. taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish; sapor^, sapidity^; twang, smack, smatch^; aftertaste, tang.

V. taste, savor, smatch^, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate &c (savory) 394; smack the lips.

" It came into his mind that Mrs. Hamilton was abundantly able to help them, but she did not know his mother, and it would savor of presumption for him to ask so great a favor.

His manner had a distinct savor of patronage.

Though he had agreed, 'Frisco Kid did not quite like it, for it still seemed to savor of desertion.

Its style is not old enough to have become antiquated, while yet it possesses much of the savor and raciness of age.

The savor was gone out of everything.

He would not willingly utter a word which would savor of unkindness towards him.

I find, despite my years in the wilderness, that I enjoy a well spread board, and that bits of decoration appeal to me; in truth, give an added savor to the viands.

And I have heard there is a spirit in you, Mr. Lennox, which is almost French, a kindred touch, a Gallic salt and savor, so to speak.

Indeed, unless the atmosphere I breathe is rendered slightly narcotic by the smoke of Cabañas and slightly stimulating by the savor of heeltaps,excuse the technical term,I find myself debilitated to a degree.

" "Ay, sir," spake my lady, "it hath a piquant savor I have not met before.

But they easily found ways to evade the rule and enjoy the savor of forbidden fruit.

I'm offmethinks I smell the long-lost savor; Hail, platter sound!

Neither he nor his wife died at the home they had made so happy with the beauty and savor of their virtues.

Moses, Job, David, and Isaiah give us utterances that savor of this belief; but they leave us in the dark in reference to its influence upon their lives.

It is a snug and cozy little Saratoga among the hills of Yorkshire, away from the smoke, soot and savor of the great manufacturing centres.

And wait you not for death, according to the counsel of Solon, to be named happy, if you are permitted fellowship with a man of rich mind, whose individual savor you always finely perceive, and never more than finely,who yields you the perpetual sense of community, and never of confusion, with your own spirit.

We have been accustomed to consider him the salt of things so long that they must lose their savor without his to season them.

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